BAND HERO™ NAME-A-ROCKER CONTEST BEGINS TODAY

 

Guitar Hero® challenges fans to exercise their originality, creativity and cleverness by entering the Band Hero™ Name-A-Rocker Contest.  Starting today, fans can login or register at www.BandHero.com and submit their entry to name a brand new in-game character featured in Band Hero, this year’s must-have gift for the holiday season. The winner will receive a copy of Band Hero on their platform of choice, bundled with a microphone, and drum and guitar instrument controllers, as well as other great prizes.  

 

Brought to you by the makers of Guitar Hero®, one of the best-selling video game franchises of all time, Band Hero features a new genre of music focused on today’s hottest hits and classic anthems that everyone will know and love. Headlined by some of the biggest names in pop music as in-game artists and playable characters, Band Hero is the ultimate party game where players of all ages will be able to experience the signature, easy-to-learn but difficult to master Guitar Hero® gameplay. Elevated social gameplay in Band Hero allows fans to create the band they always dreamed of, using any combination of guitar or drum controllers and vocals, providing rockers and performers of all ages the chance to experience and interact with their favorite music.

 

Entries for the contest will be received through July 14, 2009.  Registration is now open.

 

For the complete list of contest details and rules, please visit www.BandHero.com.

 

About The New Character

 

He grew up in Brooklyn with two siblings, a younger brother and sister. Both of his parents were teachers; his father, a college history professor, and mother, a music teacher in a local school.  Because of his background, he was always well versed in culture and music...but he especially loved music. He was also interested in things that typical of a young boy: comic books, videogames and skateboarding.  As a young boy, he started getting into hip-hop and writing his own rhymes. This led him from rapping in front of his friends at house parties to performing at local talent competitions. He displayed in his rhymes a style that was both educated and sometimes humorous, without getting too vulgar. Most of his rhymes dealt with typical experiences of a young teen in the streets of New York. It was from one of these talent competitions that he was discovered by a record label and was signed to do his first album.

 

Fast forward to present day where he is living a life of a successful music artist. His musical style is decidedly urban but incorporates aspects of the various musical genres that his mother exposed him to when he was a child. This sort of diversity in his sound has helped him crossover and attract a diverse following. As an adult, he continues the balanced lifestyle that his parents instilled in him as a child. When he isn't break dancing he's breaking beats in his hip-hop happening downtown studio. He likes sublime times at the opera or with a book, but he's as happy with his action figures and videogames - no two days are ever the same.

 

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