2greendollars

2GreenDollars is a Video DJ that’s celebrating 25 years in the Entertainment Industry. He has managed to reinvent his image multiple times and stay fresh for a new generation of music listeners. Not only that, 2GreenDollars is one of our pioneers of Digital Audio and Video, Webcasting, Remixing, and the Recordable DVD. Through inventing and Pioneering technology he helped shape our digital age today and progresses the Live Entertainment form itself every time he performs!

2GreenDollars has enjoyed international chart hit remix success for major artists under several nom-de-plume DJ Names. Artists such as Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, B.B. King, Chubby Checker, Madonna, Peter Andre, Kylie Minogue, The Village People, East 17, Girlfriend, Shanice, Bingo Boys, T.B.T.B.T., Pretty Poison, and Jamie Foxx have all had the remix treatment that either launched or re-launched their musical careers or bought about chart success once again for them in the dance circles.

In June 1986 he started out with a Mobile Disco Outfit, “Funktions” with Bruno Bortignon and Luciano Traficante. Their first big gig was at the Veneto Club in Bulleen, Victoria Australia. He played at all the major underage events and played funky tracks for birthdays, weddings, bah-mitvahs and funeral wakes. In 1988, the moment he turned 18, he was whisked away by a global DJ Talent Agency and played at Clubs such as Videopolis at Disneyland. Zouk at Singapore (the club still operates today), Club Alex in Japan, and the Reading Room in Shanghai. The mobile DJ turned into an International DJ. He returned to Australia and played all over the country: Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Airlie Beach, Brisbane, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, and Darwin. In Melbourne, he played at notable clubs such as Chasers, The Metro, Warehouse, Tunnel, Grainstore Tavern, Inflation, Underground, and Cadillac Bar.

The country that made 2GreenDollars a celebrity as a DJ and remixer in high demand in the 90’s was The United States. He gained his fame landing a resident DJ gig at the famous Palladium in New York at a time when MTV was experimenting with a weekly music TV show format out of the famous club. New York became his Apple, and as DJ “Anthony Cruze”, New York clubs such as Limelight and The Tunnel embraced his fresh new R&B/Pop Funk music style. In 1994 at the Tunnel nightclub in New York he got his dream gig – “jamming” live with the late David Cole of C+C Music Factory. He performed live re-mixes of Mariah Carey, C+C Music Factory, and new mixes of Taylor Dayne, Natalie Cole and Martha Wash, to which she later became the controversial pop sensation behind “Black Box”. The crowd at Tunnel was packed to the rafters and the audience went wild as the two wizards of the biz, the DJ, and the Keyboard Player, teamed live onstage in synchrony with no rehearsal!

Philadelphia, Denver, Chicago, and Los Angeles kept the DJ’s career going from strength to strength. “Studio 54” in Las Vegas, Prince’s “Glam Slam”, the famous “Roxbury” formerly on Sunset Boulevard in LA, and “The Red Onion” were the DJ’s gigs. In between gigs he worked on tracks using digital remixing and restoration technology, relaunching Pretty Poison, Chubby Checker, and The Village People. He was introduced into the world of The Jacksons. Meeting Michael Jackson at his “Neverland” ranch was a highlight of his career, where he showed Jackson at his Neverland Ranch how he could “remix” one of his music tracks without having to leave the digital domain. 2GreenDollars pioneered Digital Audio Editing using the Atari and with the help of a friend that was savvy at repackaging the computer into a rack mount unit called it the “ADAP”. He got his first client for the product thanks to Jackson (Sony Studios in Studio City, LA) and the device was later found in every large recording studio in Hollywood, the United States, and then the world.

In 1999, 2GreenDollars took his lifetime dream of making compressed video editable and malleable in real time on a computer and made it reality. He teamed up with Pinnacle Systems Germany and Bill Gates at Microsoft and pioneered the Recordable DVD concept live and in real time. He got sponsorship from Multimedia Victoria and took his technology and process and launched it onstage with Bill Gates at COMDEX in 2001, where Gates was launching “Windows XP”. 2GreenDollars cleverly introduced the technology to a global media contingent and to the Major Players in Electronics by flying in Buskers from Bourke Street in Melbourne Australia to the Las Vegas launch. The buskers were the subject performers for this 45 minute presentation live and in real time. The content was recorded directly to DVD and played back to the audience of 17,000 people and global media representatives. It was the first time that JVC, Sony, Panasonic, Samsung and a coalition of nearly 100 developers and manufacturers agreed on one format, one method, and one pioneer that put it together and made it work. Today, 2GreenDollars is credited as one of the pioneers of the DVD Recorder format that exists in most consumers’ households. Windows XP has been unmatched by any other Operating System in sales and popularity in history to this day, owing largely to its breakthrough multimedia technology capability.

In 2003, 2GreenDollars embarked on a three year social project to research and transform the Music and Internet industries. The concept labelled “o3 convergence cafe” became the finalist in Yahoos “Worlds Best Internet Cafe”. The concept involved decking out a derelict building to make it look like the inside of a 747 Jet. He pioneered the transparency of the Music Video to be flexible for him to “scratch” and with his first success under his belt he held regular events at the facility to debut a host of new technologies in entertainment and gaming. It was the first time where a music video was “scratched” live, along with online multiplayer gaming commercially launched, and the convergence of such technologies successfully tested in the one facility. It became a profitable project.

In mid 2006, after 20 years in the industry, 2GreenDollars took his first ever break from entertaining to reinvent his career and focus from the ground up. Returning to the Recording Studio in 2007 as an artist, he began recording tracks to his debut album. With the sudden, tragic death of Michael Jackson in 2009, he was invited to LA LIVE to perform a unique one hour Video and Audio “MegaMedley” Presentation of Michael Jacksons Discography at the launch of “This Is It” the movie. It got an encore!

His debut album titled “Cover Note (recovered)” has just been released, and is now available through all good digital music sites globally including iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody and Zune. It’s Latin and Mediterranean inspired feel represents 2GreenDollars most valued cover songs that he could never play in a Club, but now can play all over the world.

To say that 2011 is the most thrilling year for 2GreenDollars is an understatement: a debut hit track of the 2GreenDollars concept (and a new dance craze with a new sound that is a considerable departure from tradition). Added to his performance as an artist, Megamedleys are performed live in both Audio AND Video of Michael Jackson, David Bowie and George Michaels music clips, in a wider variety and assortment of other video content and being a Celebrity DJ for ZUMBA Worldwide, today the biggest health craze in the world. 2GreenDollars is at the top of the Global DJ Game.