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Greg Porée has been fortunate enough to build his career in Los Angeles around music: His instrument is the guitar and his current “day job” is being the lead guitarist on the BBC hit show ‘Dancing with the Stars’.

Apart from always having been musically active in film and television he has worked as a guitarist, musical director, arranger and producer with the most talented musicians, ranging from Ray Charles, Diana Ross and Herbie Hancock to Sting and Phoebe Snow. You can hear him on landmark albums from Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Stanely Turrentine, Ahmad Jamal, Benny Golson and James Blunt.

Nevertheless, his artistic passion and dedication is playing the classical guitar and composing. Having grown up in a multi-cultural environment, he has always been deeply influenced by the exposure to diverse styles of music, ranging from Bach to Beatles, and from Villa-Lobos to Motown. One of the best compliments he was given recently after a concert was that he sounded like Piazolla… one of his heroes and to him a composer of great depth.

Apart from writing solo guitar pieces he is writing music for his recent band which consists of a fluctuating group of instrumentalists playing violin, bass, percussion, electric piano and accordion. Recent concerts, like at the Los Angeles County Museum or Jazz At The A-Frame have brought these compositions to a new level which he is currently recording. It will be his third CD that will be released in the summer of 2008. Some of these tunes have grown over years, have changed and evolved. Many of them he wrote on his travels, on tour, like the pieces “December” and “In Time for Spring”, which were born on a gig in Paris. Other compositions, like "Fresh Air", "Traveler", "City Lights", "Mind Set" and “Only Time Will Tell” have already been recorded by other contemporary jazz artists.