What is Fame Games

Fame Games is not “just a music radio show.” In fact, it’s nothing short of a revolution in how music is selected and promoted today. Fame Games gives the best independent artists valuable A&R opportunities, advice and career guidance, as well as a potentially massive new audience through network radio play based on merit (finally!), compiled daily using a sophisticated song evaluation system.

Fame Games introduces discerning listeners to the very best new music, produced by “undiscovered” independent and “unsigned” artists. Shockingly, the quality of music which reaches the top of the Fame Games charts easily rivals (and often outstrips) the quality of music listeners are force-fed by national network radio and TV.

Fame Games is formatted as an entertaining, daily radio show, with something for everyone. New music is showcased and discussed and put in context for new fans to discover and embrace. The show is a “front” for MMI’s complex song evaluation system which continues to find the very best new artists and songs every day. The show’s host, DJ Crier, is supported by a diversified judging panel which includes accomplished music industry professionals as well as representatives of divergent demographics, in order to best reflect upon any song’s “crossover” potential.

With incisive song analyses, entertaining presenters, frequent world-famous guests on “The Red Carpet” and most importantly showcases of the best music you never knew existed, Fame Games is guaranteed to keep you glued to your radio day in and day out!

Fame Games also features the exclusive “Cowell Factor,” presented by Tony Cowell (Simon’s older, wiser brother and head of CowellMedia). This strategic alliance has nothing to do with the likes of American Idol or X-Factor. In fact, it’s a wholehearted endorsement of something quite opposite. Tony’s come onboard to help Fame Games to discover (and place!) real, un-manufactured world-class musical talent!

Fame Games airs daily through CitadelMedia (ABC) radio networks, as well as on demand, online on the Fame Games and MeerMusic sites and affiliated sites.

Fame Games is the best place for artists and fans to meet, and entertain realistic hopes of saving the world from bad music!

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Instruments;
Piano

Music Style/Genre
Mixture of jazz, pop with influences of musical theatre and opera. Doesn´t matter what it is, but it has to tell a story.

General Music Style
Pop

Full Bio
Until I was about 12, I thought everyone could hear a song and then play it on the piano. All my friends had pianos in their homes and I just thought that’s what they were for. Turns out I was somewhat misled.

Got my first gig at 15 playing three nights a week at a Chinese restaurant. The piano dated back to around the Ming dynasty and depending on the humidity of the restaurant, sometimes all the C’s on the piano didn’t work and other days most of the flats and sharps were out of action.

So every gig became a new adventure in making-it-up. Musically, I was raised on a strange mixture of classical, Abba, Gershwin, Queen, Liberace, S-Express, musical theatre, Guns’n’Roses, film soundtracks, all sorts of nonsense. This gave me a varied musical grounding for college, where I studied piano, voice and music technology. Then it was off to university to learn how to compose for the screen with a music and media degree. It’s served me well I actually use what I learned at uni everyday in my work.

Throughout my life I’ve always played at weddings and corporate gigs, often for royalty and celebrities which is always a giggle and I enjoy it because I get to play the songs I love and get paid for it! I’ve also scored a couple of films and written a fair bit for the stage too. My latest commission is to compose the music for a new Christmas musical for children, set to open in late 2009. It’s the cutest thing ever, about a puppy. There´s another, more grown-up musical in the pipeline too and also an opera on the horizon.

I’ve just finished my first jazz album called You’d Never Know. It’s a little collection of recordings I’ve made of some standards which I love, a couple of fun showtunes and jazz numbers that I’ve written myself. The track listing and the digital store are on my little website www.jamsheedmaster.com

As well as all that, I’m currently working with Disney on a series of video games for Playstation2 & 3. It’s a music game called Disney Sing It and the previous game I worked on for Sony, called Singstar, won a couple of Bafta awards too, which is nice.

I often perform at some of the world’s greatest venues and clubs which is a real honour and my concert series ‘An Enchanted Evening’ and ‘Songs That Tell Stories’ have both done really well too. I’m proud of my work as a pianist and singer.

So there’s me in a musical nutshell. Always a lot in the pipeline and yes, I work hard, but it’s what I do best because I love it all.

Short Bio
Raised in the leafy suburbs of Surrey, Jamsheed Master is the musical result of years of awfully bad taste, but somehow turns out a good tune every time.