Backstage Spotlight™
Concert Promoter Gina Zamparelli
Gina Zamparelli has worked in the live concert
industry for 23 years and was the first woman in the Los Angeles market to produce
concerts with national-level artists. Shows she produced at the legendary Perkins Palace
are still talked about in rock circles, including a Guns ‘n’ Roses show credited
amongst GNR fans as being the one that put that band on the map. Gina is active in
historic preservation and has been a theater financial consultant for 13 theaters around
the US. She heads Friends of the Raymond Theatre, a non-profit group dedicated to saving
the former vaudeville theater (built in 1921) that was known in the 80’s &
90’s as the concert venue Perkins Palace (which Gina’s company managed for more
than a decade). Once her preservation work with the Raymond Theatre comes to a close, she
will start producing concerts in LA once again.
MBADC: What current artists do you like right
now, if any?
GZ: I have a huge arsenal of artists I like. But they aren’t
always new artists. I find myself currently going back and listening to older artists and
appreciating their work. I really dislike listing artists I like, I guess I hate playing
favorites, because sometimes I like one song from an artist, or I like a video, or an
artists entire body of work, so it’s hard to pick and choose . But if I had to list a
few new or current artists I like, I would say, Evanessence, Disturbed, Kid Rock, No
Doubt, Missy Elliot just to name a few.
MBADC: God gives you the chance to assemble the ultimate show. You
can use any musicians, living or dead. What would be the ultimate 3-act bill, and
what’s the order of performance?
GZ: You had me obsessing about this question for days…Did you
have to make it a 3-bill act AND ask for the billing order? Okay, how about Aerosmith, Van
Halen (original members) and Guns N’ Roses (original members).
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