Milienko Matievich Biography

I lived in a suburb with my grandparents. It did not take much time to find a priceless gift that God gave me. At the age of five, I sang at the radio, as loudly as I could. Until the age of six, my older brother and my grandparents lived. While my parents were in America and were looking for a house. In the year, my parents arrived in Croatia and took us to live in America.

We lived in Scarsdale, New York, in the apartment above the doctor’s office. My father worked on the street opposite, conducted electricity for a new hospital. When I was seven years old, we moved to Greenwich, Connecticut to the most lousy house on the street. Soon after our move, my brother John decided to learn to play the guitar and I was near the throaty everything that was inside me.

We played country music because our father loved this style. We were sure that everyone listened in America only country music. We began to play quite well, and the father began to bring us to clubs in Polish and Jewish veterans, so that we play. At the age of nine years, I began to sing in the church choir. At the age of eleven, I discovered Led Zeppelin, a group that changed my life.

Life has become more and more difficult. My brother and I loved this style of music, but our father did not share our preferences. We constantly fought for freedom. At the age of thirteen, we formed a group called Teazer and performed Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and our very first songs. A producer named Morgan Walker showed interest in us. Before we found out what would happen, we rehearsed in New York, worked on songs to make our first record.

However, this developed so quickly, and we did not have time to realize our dream. At the age of fifteen, I joined the group called “The Mission” with the leader of the Elliot Lewis group later, who later became a member of The Average White Band. Later I left that group. Soon after all, I received an invitation by phone from a gentleman named Don Stroh. Don was the owner of the Showcase Studios studio, a rehearsal complex at Norwalk CT.

And he told me that he firmly believed that I was gravitating to one of the groups that rehearsed in his studio. I agreed to listen. Immediately after high school, I entered the college for mechanical development. I was in the second year of college sitting at the painted table and then the thought came to me - “What am I doing here? With this thought, I took all the books and threw it out of the window of the history of history.

I was then capable of all surrendering to music and group. We did not have any contacts, and at the same time we had no ideas in order to sign a contract. I continued to believe in a big guy. Within a month we received a new manager and the opportunity to sign up with MCA. The album was sold in more than one million copies, accompanied by a trip around the world. We then continued the recording of the second album “Tangled in Reins.

On the last leg of the tour, we were invited to perform one concert as support from the Slaughter group in the McNichols arena in Denvero, Colorado at the night of Halloween. That night was the beginning of a long spiritual path for me. When performing the song “Dancing in the Fire”, I climbed into a ligament of lighting, not knowing that it was poorly fixed. I tried to evade the falling installation, but she hit me on the head, the entire stadium froze.

I broke my nose, cheekbones, jaw, damaged the spine and needed 28 seams on the back of my head. I don’t know where I could get the strength where I got in front of 13, an audience and left the stadium. I was immediately sent to the hospital. My manager sits on the plane the next day. Not only did I have to die that night when a pound drilling installation nailed me to the floor, and my brain had to explode.

Real pain began when I got to the house. For months, the pain was so painful that it even infuriated the smallest movement of the head. The story of the Steelheart group was completed. He lost a lot of precious memory and was restored for three years, after an accident. Sometimes in the middle of the night, at two o’clock I went far from home and did not understand what I was doing. I was in dreams, but no one could see or understand this yet.

They continued to tell me. "You are beautiful." After two years, I finally met a neurophysiologist who explained to me that I received a “tbi” injury to the brain. It took two more years of continuous concentration to re -study and reprogram my mind. During this struggle, no one helped me, no one provided financial compensation. I lost my family, house, money, I was with nothing.

We recorded an album in England, called “Wait. I was still stunned during the record. We called the album “WAIT” because it took so much damned time to win my freedom from the company of grames, also from my manager, who took more than he belonged.After I gave a large amount of money to both, I could finally move my career further and release the record two years later. During the mixing of the Wait album, I had an awakening.

I sat in my chair with my feet on the remote control and with my eyes closed, relaxing. Something passed through me and penetrated my soul. I looked at my producer, Kit Woolven, and he asked me what was wrong. I could only answer "I just woke up." The next chapter began. We continued: Asian concert tour in support of the Wait album. We played 28 concerts in 32 days in various countries.

After the tour there was a great success. However, the album did not conquer America and Europe because of the rule of law. Now, after many years, I am proud, to say that I opened my own company for grams, called Stillhard Records, with the Wait album, after returning from Asia, my mother died at the age of 56, after a long fight against leukemia. A year later, my friend Frankie Daniels, whom I called my brother, died of the same illness.

They left me with a lot of love. Soon after the death of Frankie, I received an appeal from the phone from an old friend and producer of my second album Tom Werman. He asked me if I am interested in the execution of vocals for the movie Metal God, which was later changed to Rock Star. I became the voice of Mark Volberg. After the Rock Star project was completed, I went to Europe and for three months I was interested in the techno-trance by the electronic world.

The next couple of years I tried to assemble a group and make a new album recording. Unfortunately, something slowed me down and detained the project. Everything that happened in my life prepared me for what I believe in, what should be my best work, nevertheless, I know that this is only the beginning. I never felt more inspired and complete energy, as it is now.

Ideas pour from me so fast that it takes a lot of time to realize them. I expect you to share my vision. From anger to the world, through causing pain to understanding, with patience for victory.