TY BONAVENTURA

Ty's first paid gig was on his parent's linoleum kitchen floor featuring his mom's best cast iron pots and a wooden spoon, compensated with homemade tomato sauce & pasta. Earliest influences were his church's organist, the "Folk" mass led by girls with big guitars and big hair, his parents record collection of jazz & classical music, & uncles that played saxophone. In continuous vinyl rotation at home were the Jesus Christ Superstar double album, Billy Joel, The Beatles Red & Blue anthologies, Linda Ronstadt's Greatest Hits Vol. 1, James Taylor's Greatest Hits, and the mind blowing Earth, Wind, & Fire double album.