Greta Valenti

Greta Valenti is an American business woman and artist. She is best known as the lead singer of American Rock band Well Hung Heart, producer of television show Live From Daryl's House and founder and CEO of Grow Vision creative studios.[3][4]

Greta Valenti
Born
New Orleans, Louisiana, US
Occupation
  • Director
  • Singer/Songwriter
  • Activist
Years active2005–present
Spouse(s)
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(m. 2013)​
RelativesJack Valenti (cousin)
Musical career
Genres
InstrumentsVocals
LabelsGrow Vision
Associated acts
Websitegrowvision.com

Life and career

Greta Valenti was born in Covington, Louisiana. From the age of 4 she performed on stage and in commercials[5] and performed off-broadway at the age of 13. Valenti graduated school early, emancipated herself at the age of 17 and moved to California to join the touring performance group, The Young Americans. Valenti performed in four national U.S. tours with The Young Americans and appeared in over 30 stage productions from the age of 4-17, ranging from musicals to Shakespeare.[6] She studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute and comedy at Groundlings in Los Angeles with fellow actor P.J. Byrne. In 2003, while being a performer and musician, Greta started her business career working for Taco Bell working her way up from Administrative Assistant to Art Director in the Creative Department. Her creativity for marketing was discovered by then CMO, Greg Creed who asked her to join the marketing think tank team. As part of that team, she helped develop nationally recognized PR and marketing strategies such as the World Series Target in Left Field for Free Tacos.[7]

Grow Vision

Valenti is CEO and Creative Director of Grow Vision, a full service creative and production company.[8] Valenti formed Grow Vision as a web design company in 2007 and grew it into a fully fledged production company when she partnered with now husband, Robin Davey.[5] The two grew the company and now produce content for Corporate clients such as Taco Bell, PepsiCo, Interscope, Dine Brands Global, Educational Insights, and Irvine Company. Produced the television show Live From Daryl's House for Viacom Network for two years; as well as music videos for Jet, Papa Roach and Bush.[5]

In 2017, Greta began directing music videos and films. Her first feature-length documentary is set to release in 2019.[9]

Well Hung Heart

Valenti performed with various bands in the Orange County, California area before she formed the rock trio Well Hung Heart with Robin Davey in 2011.[10] With Well Hung Heart she has released two albums, Young Enough To Know It All (2013) and Go Forth and Multiply (2014).[11] Well Hung Heart won the 2014 Best Live Band award at the OC Music Awards as well as Best Music Video.[12] Well Hung Heart continues to tour extensively in both America and Europe and was one of the headliners on the Axis Entertainment stage at the 2015 Rocklahoma Festival in Oklahoma. The band continued to tour and to release music. At their November 2018 show, the band surprised Well Hung Heart by getting William Hung to sing All Star (song) by Smash Mouth with them on stage. In Fall 2017, the band had a couple opportunities to open for Orange County, California legends, The Offspring. In May 2018, Well Hung Heart played second stage at Rocklahoma opening for Machine Gun Kelly.[13] In August 2018 Well Hung Heart played main stage at Buffalo Chip Campground opening for Foreigner.[13]

Beaux Gris Gris and The Apocalypse

In 2017, Valenti along with partner Robin Davey created the New Orleans influenced blues band, Beaux Gris Gris and The Apocalypse. The band features a variety of well-known musicians form the British Blues scene, including members of The Hoax, King King, and Joanne Shaw Taylor bands. The band has released a sampler EP called "The Appetizer" and a full-length album called "Love & Murder".[14] Greta directed the and edited the music video for their single "Heart Breaker".[15] Their single "Louisiana Good Ride" was featured on the Cerys Matthews BBC Radio 2 Blues show.[16] They are set to tour the Uk and Europe multiple times in 2019.

References
  1. "No girls allowed: One singer's struggle with sexism in the music industry". Classic Rock Magazine.
  2. "If you listen to one new blues act this week, make it Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse…". The Blues Magazine.
  3. "Greta Valenti's LinkedIn Page". LinkedIn.
  4. "Class Rock magazine / Louder".
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-04-09. Retrieved 2015-04-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "Greta Valenti". IMDb.
  7. http://www.growvision.com/about/
  8. "Home". GROW VISION.
  9. https://ocweekly.com/david-and-the-curse-is-survival-music-for-your-rock-n-roll-spirit/
  10. "Well Hung Heart Music - MarsBands.com - MarsBands". www.marsbands.com.
  11. "Well Hung Heart gets some local love". 20 December 2013.
  12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-04-13. Retrieved 2015-04-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. "Buffalo Chip / Louder".
  14. https://www.beauxgrisgris.com
  15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHHiCO2KPGU
  16. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000gzx
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