Korel Tunador

Biography

Korel Tunador is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter living in Los Angeles, California. He plays a number of instruments, including guitar, keyboards, saxophone and accordion. Tunador is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated with a degree from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. In Boston, he also started playing guitar, singing, songwriting and touring with the well established Boston band, Shockra. After several years, he moved back to Pittsburgh and played in a number of bands including: Crisis Car, The Crawlin' Low Band, The Johnsons, Lovechild, Margalit and the Liquitones and Opek 15. In 2001, Korel also won an endowment from the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, a Creative Achievement Award grant, as an Emerging Artist. In 2003, Tunador moved to Los Angeles to continue his music career. He began working as a touring musician, and his first tour out of Los Angeles was playing keyboards with Mississippi songwriter Charlie Mars. They toured all of 2004 supporting Charlie's album, Gather The Horses, on V2 Records. The next year he played guitar with actress Jada Pinkett Smith's Metal band, Wicked Wisdom. They recorded an album and toured on Ozzfest in 2005. In 2006, Tunador began playing keyboards/guitar/saxophone/vocals with The Goo Goo Dolls for the tour supporting their album, Let Love In. He toured internationally with the Goo Goo Dolls for three years, performing on dozens of television shows, such as Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Today, Live From Abbey Road and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (several times with the Goo Goo Dolls and another with Papa Roach). He also played on their song Before It's too Late for the soundtrack of the Transformers movie and is in the live DVD releases from Red Rocks and Capitol Records Studios. In late 2008, Tunador joined up with Katy Perry's band to be part of the live house band as she hosted the European Music Awards in Liverpool, England. He joined the Katy Perry tour full-t

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