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Riz Story : biography

19 May 1976 –

Riz Story is an American musician, composer, and film director.

Career

Music

Story formed the group Sylvia with Taylor Hawkins (later of Foo Fighters) and Jon (Juano) Davidson (of YES, and Sky Cries Mary). Sylvia changed its name to Anyone and continued on with various members. Anyone are given credit for developing the sound known as "maximum acid," a blend of heavy, psychedelic, and alternative influences. In 1999 Anyone released Live Acid, a live full length album. The album was a companion piece to the film Togetherment which story was making during that year. The album was well received and led to several labels offering the band recording contracts, one of which was Korn’s Elementary label.

Anyone signed to Roadrunner Records in 2000 and recorded their eponymous major label debut, which was co-produced by Story and Rick Parashar. The album received unanimously favorable reviews, and the album Anyone earned the #9 spot on Metal Hammer magazine’s Metal Hammer Albums Of 2001 list. Other awards include "best band" Los Angeles Music Awards, 1999.

Several European tours followed including appearances at the Reading, Leeds, Pookelpop, and Lowlands festivals. Subsequent press coverage reflected the bands standout live show. Metal Hammer called the band’s Reading performance "the highlight of the festival".. Anyone also toured the America’s extensively starting in 2000 through 2004.

Story co-wrote, with Paula Abdul, the theme for Abdul’s short-lived NBC show Live to Dance.

On January 30, 2012 Story’s new band, Infinika was launched via a viral promotional clip on YouTube. Infinika features Story, David Silveria (ex-Korn drummer), Rob Paterson (ex-Filter and Korn guitarist) and Miles Martin (ex-Anyone bassist). The promotional clip featured 6 tracks from an upcoming full length which was rumored to be titled Echoes and Traces. The partial songs included in the promotional clip were "Beautiful World", "Runaways", "Over Before it Begins", "Yesterdays Gone", "Crash" and "Traces".

Film

Story is founder and President of Togetherment Films and Music. The Hollywood based production company was founded in 2000 as a vehicle for Story’s films and musical projects and later grew into a commercial production house. TogethermenT has produced and/or contributed to a long list of motion pictures, music videos, commercial productions and music productions.

Story began his film directorial career with Togetherment. Part documentary, part art film, part concert film, Togetherment features interviews with many Orange County bands (Korn, Social Distortion, Foo Fighters, Orgy, Lit, etc.).

His first feature film, Goloka debuted on July 31, 2003 at the Dances with Films film festival in Santa Monica, California.. Goloka also played at other film festivals and was noted for its highly experimental poetic quality. Entertainment Today magazine proclaimed that, "gorgeous shots abound, and the score is an unexpected treat." Story later told the press that he considered Goloka to be his student film, and removed the film from circulation.

As of August 2012, Story is completing his first commercial feature film entitled A Winter Rose, featuring Theresa Russell, Billy Zane, Paul Sorvino, Kimberly Whalen, Andy Dick, Edward Furlong, Taryn Manning etc. He is credited as director, producer, composer, and writer, and is also handling post sound and picture.

Writing

As a writer, Story has completed several volumes of poetry including a collection entitled Love Letters to Humanity. In addition he has penned numerous screenplays including Sip the Pleasure of Days, which he co-wrote with Steven E. de Souza and "A Winter Rose". Other screenwriting credits include Marcin Teodoru’s 2010 film Closure.

Early life

Riz Story was born in California. In his early teens he began to study symphonic orchestration at age 15 composed his first full-scale symphony. Story was called "a true Renaissance man" by Billboard, in reference to his wide array of talents, including musician, composer, record producer, poet, film maker, actor, and artist.