My name is Erik Vansaren.
I was born in the north-eastern part of Italy on July 13th 1979. I’ve never lived in that city
and I don’t even feel like I am Italian, because my family came from Austria/Germany, but
became Italian after the Austro Hungarian Empire and during the Fascism my mother had
to change her surname in Italian language.
My father died early and the relationship with my mother and my sister are up and down. When I lived with them, my mother was the one at home that loved music and had many discos and mc.
Abba, Platters, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Sinatra, Franklin and obviously, classic music, that I as a six years child, hated and I found awfully annoying. My mother would have liked her son to be a musician, so when I was ten years old I had to study piano. I think I did less than three lessons, I thought piano had too many keys, too many pedals and my hands were too slow to blow off my mind.
Anyway, when I went to primary school I had to learn to play piccolo flute, and I loved it so much that when we played all together, I never breathed down on it and I only moved my fingers in a non-sense, messy way.
I’ve been a listener until 16 years old, taking up all music I could listen to, mostly was rock, metal and punk music, but I also listened rap, pop, disco and something of classic music when was at home. Every sound had a colour and an image in mind, after all, like it happens now.
Watching some friends playing in bands, I tried to understand how instruments were made of, try to understand how to use them, how to connect a guitar to a marshall, and so on.
When I was nineteen I found my life at home so oppressive and nothing could arouse my interest. I moved to Milan where I lived for about two years. At that time I started to sing in my first metal band.
In 2003 I moved to Rome where I started a new metal band decided of recording our own cd and finding a label, but  band members played only for pleasure, so our band broke up. In 2004 I lost my job and I had no house where to live  and couldn't pay my homerent.  I had just started to studied violin. For six months I lived as a homeless, sleeping on the buses, and I remember that also in those conditions, I continued to write the songs for the band.
Sometimes I've played my violin as a street musician, but I strongly believe that when someone gave me coins, it was his intent was to stop my music. I found a job in a Mcdonald’s and I hadn’t forgotten my musical project yet, So I started paying my recordings, mixing and mastering my metal band’s cd, and I also started my lyric singing lessons.
One day, after heaving rearranged one of my metal band’s songs as if it could be played by violins, violas and cellos, my teacher Emira told me: “good, well done”and added defiently: “yes, but you had a base and you could work on it” so I felt defiance and answered her: “do you think I’m not able to write some music?” and she replied me: “well, no, you’ve never studied music, you don’t know it” so I took up the challenge and declared: “well, I’ll write a symphony”.
The album “Quest for Theraclis”, doesn’t contain the symphony (1st,2nd,3rd mov). Unfortunately I hadn’t enough money to include also this symphony on my demo cd, so I recorded only some tracks of different kinds.
In 2008 I’ve participated to the Queen Elisabeth Competition, currently I’m participating to various contest composition.
I’m a singer in a metal band where I’m completing the recordings of the female voice and singing also in a hard rock band which I should begin mastering.

I’m always looking for collaborations (possibly with remuneration) with artists, recording studios, theatres, cinematography house and software house that produce videogames.