Vince Dicola: The man behind the score for TF The Movie Birth place: Lancaster, Pennsylvania High School Attended: Lancaster Catholic High Occupation: Keyboard artist, Composer, Arranger, Producer Current residence: San Fernando Valley with his wife and two children

In 1981 Vince relocated to southern California. He began in the film industry by co-writing eight songs for the film Staying Alive, starring John Travolta and directed by Sylvester Stallone. The biggest hit from the Grammy-nominated soundtrack is the Golden Globe nomination "Far From Over". It was sung by Sly's brother Frank Stallone and featured Vince on keyboards. The song can still be heard today at many sporting events. This marked the beginning of a new note for keyboardist Vince DiCola.

Vince's next projects were writing the scores for Rocky IV and Transformers The Movie. He not only wrote these scores but also perfomed and produced them. The movie score for Rocky IV gave the movie the feeling of inspiration. Whereas the score for TF The Movie gave us inspiration but also a feeling of suspense. You always knew by the music when the Decepticons were at large. We see in these two films that the music does help make the movie. Vince drove his goals home here.

In 1986 Vince released his first solo album entitled "Vince Dicola\Piano Solos". He appeared as an artist\arranger on four tracks of "Artfully Beatles." Both albums were released on Artful Balance Records. Vince's performance of the song "Yesterday" was used at the 1998 Winter Olympics. In 1993 "Artstically Beatles" was released by Dominion Entertainment Inc. Vince arranged, produced, and performed all ten songs.

Vince's most enjoyable music experiences are "Storming Heaven" and "Thread". "Storming Heaven" is a five piece melodic rock band who released their first album "Life in Paradise" in Europe and Japan in 1996. It is distributed by MTM Music\Germany. "Thread" is a powerful rock\soul trio featuring Vince on keyboards, Doane Perry (Jethro Tull) on drums\percussion and Ellis Hall (Tower of Power) on vocals. Thread released their first album on their own label (Laughing Gull) in 1996. These albums continue to sell around the world.

Vince continues to do free lance composition,session and production work, and concentrates on his solo career. He released mini Christmas CD in 1999 and released a solo CD in the spring of 2000 called "In-Vince-ible". It features some works from the past as well as some previously unreleased material.

Vince enjoys live music. In May of 2000 he assembled his local hometown talent in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for a two hour concert that highlighted his career. This included a local high school orchestra which he accompanied. In November of 2000 he assembled an "IN-VINCE-ible" all star band for a charity event at the famous "House of Blues". This band featured Alex Ligertwood (Formerly of Santana), Jason Scheff (Chicago), Gary Falcone (Rod Sterwart) for vocals, Doane Perry (Jethro Tull, Thread) on drums, Lance Morrison (Don Henley) on bass, Doug Bossi (David Coverdale) on giutar , Scarlet Rivera (Bob Dylan) on violin, and Lou Pardini (Kenny G) on keyboards. Vince performs regulary with some of his friends at L.A.'s hotspots and also at various places in California with Christian artst Bryan Duncan.

Vince seems to be very busy indeed. So goes his life in the music biz. Now you know a liitle more about the man behind the music. He is indeed as fascinating as his works.