How innovators are responding to the world’s biggest challenges. — Serial entrepreneur and philanthropist Jeffrey M. Zucker talks weekly with innovators creating transformational social impact. They discuss their journeys in philanthropy, business, and life.
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episode 10: S4E10 (episode 40): Greg Spero on releasing creative potential in every human
In this episode, Greg and Jeffrey discuss Greg’s music career, software endeavors, his many learnings along the way, his passion for releasing the infinite creative potential in every human, and more…
Watch this episode on YouTube - https://youtu.be/T69ciFvnCjk
Recorded: 8/26/22
Learn more:
Greg: Website - https://www.gregspero.com/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/gregspero/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/gregspero YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCON3ixoHJ46HXlkQR4ttdw Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/gregspero/
Pitch: Website - https://welovepitch.com/ Facebook - https://facebook.com/welovepitch Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/welovepitch Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/welovepitch/
Tiny Room studio: Website - https://www.tinyroom.com Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tinyroomstudiosla/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/tinyroomlive/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@tinyroomstudios YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/TinyRoom
Spirit Fingers band: Website - www.spiritfingers.live Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SpiritFingersLive/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/spiritfingerslive
Greg Spero and a million creative paths.
Greg Spero is a musician on a mission. A multifariously creative force who’s built an entire ecosystem that empowers self-expression, Spero creates music and tech that embodies limitless possibilities. A Los Angeles-based pianist/keyboardist, producer, arranger, composer, bandleader, YouTube educator, label-owner and internet entrepreneur, he’s devoted a good deal of his time to building vehicles that connect fellow artists with audiences.
“We all have this ability to be infinitely expansive, to be everything that we want to be,” he says. “It’s a matter of how we manifest our goals.”
What sets Spero apart isn’t so much his expansive vision as his combination of musical prowess and entrepreneurial acumen. As a recent piece for the Philadelphia public radio station WRTI declared,
"Any notion that supremely talented musicians cannot be savvy, intentional entrepreneurs is upended by the idea of Greg Spero."
Familiar to a diverse array of listeners through his collaborations with the pop star Halsey and the funk/fusion Miles Electric Band, Spero has also composed music for film, theater and television, written songs with Rolling Stones bassist Darryl Jones, and co-produced tracks with Ski Beatz. In recent years he’s focused on Spirit Fingers, his powerhouse quartet featuring a cadre of the era’s definitive players, including bassist Hadrien Feraud (or Max Gerl), Italian guitarist Dario Chiazzolino, and drummer Mike Mitchell (aka Blaque Dynamite, a key Kamasi Washington collaborator). AllAboutJazz summed up the combo by describing Spero as “an undeniably gifted pianist” who has assembled “a veritable supergroup in terms of their prodigious talent...Imbued with preternatural levels of skill and a high replay value"
The group released an eponymous debut album on Shanachie Entertainment entitled Spirit Fingers, a project centering on a piece hailed by WGBO’s Nate Chinen as “a cinematic composition whose main attraction is the polyrhythmic groove [that] morphs and changes like a weather system.” …bio continued at https://www.gregspero.com/bio