Peter Venezia
A product of the infamous Max’s Kansas City that ruled the New York City music underground scene from the 1960s through the mid-1980s, Peter was exposed to the greats and would-be greats playing keyboards as a member of its house band lost petrol, and as a bartender for over half a decade at Manhattan’s infamous Park Avenue South gathering spot for musicians, poets, artists and politicians. Long before she would become the Queen of Pop, Peter served up drinks as Madonna waited on tables – a job held by Debra Harry of Blondie, before Madonna replaced her.
After years in the New York music scene, in 2001, Peter gave up big city life and relocated to Brebeuf, Quebec a tiny village in the Laurentian mountains with a population just slightly less than that of the apartment building he called home in Manhattan… Home now is just a few minutes outside the popular resort village of Mont Tremblant, where opportunities abound for his original music and the extemporaneous sounds of X-Tempo.