By Claire Regenstreif
Staff Writer
Through her passion for music and performing, junior Sidney Sartini watched her life morph into something she could have never imagined.
Bahari, a local alternative band, released its first song, “Wild Ones,” on iTunes on Dec. 30, 2014. The band consists of three 17-year-old girls: Sartini, Natalia Panzarella and Ruby Carr.
“We all met and wanted to pursue music and thought, ‘Why not?’” Panzarella said. “We immediately got along.”
The band has been together for over a year and a half. All of the members taught themselves how to sing and how to play their instruments; Sartini plays the guitar, Carr plays the piano and Panzarella plays the bass.
“We all knew we wanted to be musicians one day, but we never even dreamed of it happening,” Sartini said.
Through mutual friends, Bahari became involved with Antonia Armato, a record producer at Rock Mafia. According to Bahari, Armato was looking to start a girl band, and the group fit the description of what she was looking for.
“Rock Mafia is a home to us,” Sartini said. “They know what we want to do with our music, and they listen to us.”
In the future, Bahari plans to release many more songs of the same alternative style, while reaching out to a wider audience. A music video is currently being created for “Wild Ones,” and Bahari hopes to produce a whole album to be released by the end of this year.
“We are really trying to make something that is so new and organic that no one has ever done or seen before,” Sartini said. “We are making our band about the music and nothing else.”
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