Carl Restivo
Vocals/Guitar
| During the last two years, Carl Restivo was the vocalist and
lead guitarist of Klick’s former configuration, Colfax Road, as well
as a solo artist. Restivo lit up New York’s music scene and Klick’s
music was selected amongst thousands of artists by ASCAP as “one of
the most creative new artists in the country”. Born in California,
raised in New Jersey, based in Brooklyn, NY, Carl Restivo has years
of impressive producing, writing, musician and singing credits on
his resume. 2003 was an exciting year for Carl who played a
significant contributing role on Wyclef Jean’s album, “Preacher’s
Son”. Carl walked into Wyclef’s studio one day to play Clef some tracks and Clef quickly said “it was the most innovative rock music I had heard in the last ten years”. The two of them proceeded to co-write the song “Hip Hop In Morning" and "Cinderella" for Klick, and eventually "Linda” for the new Wyclef album. Clef was compelled to have Carl play guitar and sing on tracks throughout the album. Carl then got involved with producing and singing alongside Patti Labelle and Buju Banton for the album as well. Recently, Carl has been in the studio producing and co-writing tracks (Producer aka: Mr. Wizard) for Patricia Bernetti, the new songstress under Steve Rifkin’s Label SRC, as well as Meleni Smith, a new artist on Columbia Records. He has also co-produced the rock remix of “Gimme what you got” for rapper Kurupt featuring Xzibit. Last summer, Carl joined his childhood guitar idol Nuno Bettencourt on a tour of Europe playing bass for Extreme, and ended up co-writing 3 songs with him for Klick. |