“My wife owns a dance studio on Old Country Road, and it had a little 100 square-foot loft above it,” said LaPorte. It was then that they discovered the successful new avenue that their love for music would take them down. When his career stalled, he started working with LaPorte’s construction company to help make ends meet. He started his own company, got married and settled in Dix Hills.ĭespite his record deal and training, Klang began to find the music business to be more vicious than he thought. LaPorte, somewhat disillusioned after witnessing the darker side of the recording industry during Making the Band, took a break and went back to construction. LaPorte, on the other hand, released his debut album, Just a Rolling Stone, in late 2008, and toured extensively to support it, including a stint opening for his idols the Backstreet Boys.
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“We had to learn how to sing, dance, record, how to do interviews everything from top to bottom to become a real artist.” It really was the last television program that developed artists, unlike today with American Idol or people posting videos on YouTube hoping for their 15 minutes of fame,” said Klang, who currently resides in Levittown. While Klang didn’t quite make it into the group at the end of the season, he nonetheless impressed Diddy so much that the media mogul offered him his very own solo contract with Bad Boy Records. Diddy put out for a new MTV talent show entitled Making the Band, with the end goal being to create the next big all-boy pop music group. Two years later, Klang and LaPorte responded to a casting call that rapper P. “He got us a developmental deal with Sony, and we started going from studio to studio, but with five underage kids having to travel all over the place, along with all the contracts, the parents and everything, it all got too convoluted and hectic and we ended up breaking apart-except for Donnie and me.” “We got picked up for a contract with Mathew Knowles, the father of singer Beyoncé Knowles, when we were all about 15-years-old,” said LaPorte. However, due to some bumps in the road, the project never quite got off the ground. Soon their hard work paid off, and the group began to get noticed by some big names in the industry. The studio lobby is welcoming for aspiring artists.LaPorte already had a background in construction thanks to the influence of his father, and the two built a recording studio in the basement of his home. “This was during the whole *NYSNC/Backstreet Boys days in 1999, so we started a boy band called Playa Deception with a few of our friends.” One day he heard me humming, I heard him humming, and we discovered that we both liked to sing,” said Klang. The two instantly bonded once they discovered each other’s mutual love of music in particular, the R&B-styled pop music that was especially popular at the time. Dominic’s, a private Catholic high school in Oyster Bay. Klang and LaPorte met when they were both 13-years-old while attending St.
She is currently signed to a record deal on Bieber’s label in Los Angeles.
The Loft Studio, located at 1530 Old Country Rd., already has a list of achievements, including protégé Madison Beer, who got attention after Justin Bieber tweeted a link to a video of her singing. “If they do, through our connections that we made while we were in the music industry the past 15 years, we would try and get them a record deal.” “Essentially, we’re looking for the next Justin Bieber, someone we can train and teach them how to really become an artist, put them on YouTube and hope they really blow up,” said LaPorte.
The duo says that they draw upon their personal experience of the ups and downs of the recording industry to give kids today the chance to be superstars. The Loft Sound Studio, a Plainview-based vocal and performance training facility, is the creation of lifelong music artists Donnie Klang and Matthew LaPorte. A little bit of Hollywood has come to Plainview.
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