Ari Erlantz Peiderezek
Date of birth, age: December 8th, 1966 (24 y/o)
Occupation: singer-songwriter, musician, dancer
Sexuality: Pansesxual -- he previously thought himself to be gay up until recently
Physical description: Ari appears lean, with long brown hair with some tinges of blond, and almost no facial hair at all. Ari stands at approximately 170 centimeters, about 5'7, and weighs 60 kilograms, about 132 pounds. He has somewhat tan skin and some freckles. Nothing much to scoff at. His stage prescence however..
Biography: Ari was born to Quebecois parents in Detroit and abandoned shortly after his birth. He was found and adopted a family consisting of a Spanish Civil War child solider Basque-Spanish seamstress, and the rock and roll pioner Lloyd Price (1931-1981). After several years of moving around, they eventually settled in Compton, California. He befriended several people who would become influential musicians, including eventual Nirvana bass player Krist Novoselic.
In 1981 Ari's mother shot his father in front of him after becoming inexplicably convinced of his infidelity. Then, she tried to shoot Ari, but missed. After a brief standoff with police she was arrested and Ari was sent to live with his father's friend. There was a televised funeral for the rock and roll pioneer, in which Ari briefly spoke a few words before crying and being comforted by his late father's friends and family. Publically he dissapeared and recovered.
In 1984 his adoptive father had a stroke and died. Ari lived as a vagabond until 1985, and eventually made it to Georgia where he settled down with a friend, and began to make pioneering electronic music which he called dreamstep (later to be widely known as dubstep) by himself. On August 8th 1985, he released Electronic Music, which is widely considered to be one of the greatest debut albums of all time. He was catapulted into the public conciousness, to the chagrin of Ari himself.
On February 12th 1986 he released Castle of Broken Dreams, which featured his signature dreamstep style as well as influence from ambient music, R&B, pop, rock, minimalism, and reggae somewhat. Over three years later, Ari released his third album King on June 2nd 1989, featuring more "intimate" sounds than his last two albums. It helped popularize new jack swing, and contained significant ambient, electronica, minimalism, funk, and psychadelic influence. King was based on a relationship he had with a Polish singer that he refuses to namedrop. King, for Ari, was a dissapointment, and only sold some 15 million copies. He feels that he needs to reinvent his sound. But he has no idea, and he's scared shitless that his next album is going to be a dissapointment.
