Eric Lopiano

Bio: Eric Lopiano is a twenty-year-old aspiring music producer who is currently pursing a Bachelor's degree in Music Technology at Mercy College in White Plains, New York. Eric is currently in his junior year and hopes to find a job working at a recording studio after his graduation. Eric has had a passion for music his entire life, but it wasn't until he reached high school that he considered a career in the music business. It was in high school that Eric began to play bass and formed a band with his friends from school. Even though Eric's band only lasted for two years, his time spent in the group further fueled his desire to continue learning about music. After graduating high school, Eric began looking for schools that offered a program in music education. It was through a friend's recommendation that Eric found out about Mercy College's Music Industry + Technology program. In 2006, Eric was accepted into the program and began his musical education. Currently, Eric is working on various projects as a songwriter, engineer, and producer in a production team that he co-founded with two friends.

Production: Heartbroken

Artist: Shystar

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Program Notes: The song Heartbroken is a dramatic and serious R & B song about a woman and her boyfriend going through some difficult times in their relationship. The song is sung from the perspective of the woman in the relationship. The lyrics of the song convey a story to the listener in which she describes her broken feelings and emotional emptiness that she would experience if the couple were to break up.

The artist behind the song is a woman named Shystar. It is her powerful voice and tremendously emotional vocal performance that gives the listener the ability to connect with her on a level in which they understand and feel the pain she is going through. It is her vocal performance that really drives the emotional part of the song home in the mind of the listener.

Musically, the song contains a nicely varied assortment of instruments ranging from guitars and piano to strings and drums. In order to create a sense of contrasting sounds, the song includes both electric guitars as well as an acoustic guitar. The strings give the song a strong sense of emotion while the piano does a good job of lending a bright, gentle sound to the piece.

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