1. Jasun Martz has recorded with Michael Jackson, toured with Frank Zappa and helped arrange one of rock music's best-selling hits: "We Built This City" by Starship.
11 Facts About Jasun Martz
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Also a renowned New York based painter and sculptor, Martz has lived in New York, Los Angeles and London, and has created and exhibited "raw expressionist" paintings and papier-mache sculpture inspired by the subway passengers he encounters in each city.
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Jasun Martz began his music career at an early age, signing his first professional recording and publishing contract at the age of 15.
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Jasun Martz is the featured harmonica soloist on "Streetwalker", a Bad outtake which later appeared on Bad 25, as a bonus track on the 2001 Bad Special Edition reissue, and as the flip-side to the UK hit "Cry".
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Jasun Martz composed and produced a contemporary classical symphony for the 115-member The Intercontinental Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Choir.
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Jasun Martz has said he then had an epiphany for the symphony.
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Jasun Martz conducted a 40-piece orchestra, the Neoteric Orchestra, in his critically acclaimed first avant-garde symphony The Pillory.
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Jasun Martz is an internationally known New York based Creative Director in the beauty and fashion industries.
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Also an inventor, Jasun Martz is the creator and owner of many trademarks, copyrights and patents.
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Jasun Martz was most recently awarded a United States patent for his invention of a sponge storage and disinfecting device.
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Jasun Martz studied at the University of California, Los Angeles; New York University; California State University, Northridge; Art Center College of Design and graduated with honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a Bachelor's degree in the arts.