bio

Niko Bolas is known as a "vibe oriented" producer/engineer in music studios and in forays with hi-tech companies. He has recorded and produced music and technology since starting at the famous Record One Studio in 1977.

In music, he's cut with a wide spectrum...

Classic Artists - Neil Young (The Volume Dealers), Billy Joel, Rod Stewart, Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock, Keith Richards, Herb Alpert, KISS, Steve Perry...

Contemporary Artists - John Mayer, Los Lonely Boys, Melissa Etheridge, The Waterboys, My Morning Jacket...

Rising Talents - Australia's Rushcutter, England's Two Spot Gobi, and Chicago's Echo Son.

Film work spans "The Breakfast Club", "Singles", Scorcese's "Lightening In A Bottle", and Beyonce's "Cadillac Records".

In '89 Niko co-founded Fakespace Music, and at computer graphics conference SIGGRAPH '95 in Los Angeles, débuted two new patented music technologies in Virtual Reality.

 

  

In '98 he co-founded internet radio company Sonicbox, and as President/CEO, successfully raised venture capital, and integrated Sonicbox technologies with several consumer products (Acer, Panasonic, Phillips).  In 2000 the company was re-named iM Networks and in 2001 merged with Japan's software giant Softbank.

Now living in Nashville, Niko records out of Blackbird Studios.

He is also technical advisor to the Microsoft Surface (multi-touch computing) project in Los Angeles.

Secretly a bird watcher, he shares George Jones' old house with his pet, Shovelhead.

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