Dom Mariani

Who is Dom Mariani?

Domenic Desio "Dom" Mariani is an Australian guitarist, vocalist, producer, and songwriter from Fremantle. Mariani has been a member of various bands, The Stems, The Someloves, DM3 and Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp. The Stems debut studio album, At First Sight, Violets Are Blue, was released in June 1987 and became the third highest selling independent album in Australia for that year. Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described the power pop group as "one of the best live bands on the Australian scene". The Someloves' lone studio album, Something or Other, was "[f]ull of shimmering power pop melodies and glittering guitar sounds".

In 2005 Mariani was inducted into the West Australian Music Industry Awards Hall of Fame. In August that year he curated a 2× CD compilation album, Popsided Guitar: Anthology 1984–2004, which included material from several of his bands. In 2007 United States writer, John M. Borack, rated Mariani as "one of the top five pop titans of the past couple of decades". Aside from his music career, Mariani's main occupation is as an architectural designer. His son, John Mariani, and nephew, Dion Mariani, were founding mainstays of a garage rock band, The Flairz – at an average age of ten-and-a-half years-old.