Derek Sherinian

Derek Sherinian born in 1966 in California. He studied piano at the famous Berklee College Of Music in Boston, where he was a roommate with Al Pitrelli, one of Megadeth's future guitarists. He started his professional career in 1989 with Buddy Miles (Jimi Hendrix's former drummer) and then turned with Alice Cooper. He joined Dream Theater from 1994 to 1998. The band releases A Change Of Seasons and Falling Into Infinity with Sherinian on keyboards, as well as the double-live Once In A Livetime, which will be his last concert with DT. At the same time, he and John Myung (Dream Theater bassist) released two albums by Rock prog / Jazz-fustion with Platypus. The post-DT marks the beginning of his solo career, focusing on metal virtuoso in synth. He released the album Planet X in 1999, and set up a group of luxury flyers to defend it. The band will become Planet X , which will produce four additional albums until 2007. In parallel, Sherinian continues to release "real" solo albums (under her unique name and unrelated to Planet X), throughout the 2000s. Oceana, the seventh release of the American, dates from 2011. In 2009, he formed Black Country Communion (Hard Rock / Blues Rock) with Glenn Hughes (ex Deep Purple , ex Black Sabbath ...), Joe Bonamassa, and Jason Bonham (Led Zeppelin ). The band will release four albums in 2010. Sherinian will find Mike Portnoy in 2017 to found Sons Of Apollo , still with cadors of the genre (Billy Sheehan (Mr. Big ), Jeff Scott Soto (Yngwie Malmsteen , Journey ), and Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal ( Guns 'N Roses , Asia ). In 2020, Derek Sherinian returns with a new solo album, the first in nine years: The Phoenix.
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