Dom Mariani

Dom Mariani
Mariani on guitar with Fighter Plane, WAMi Awards, Northbridge, June 2012
Background information
Birth name	Domenic Desio Mariani
Born	1958 (age 58–59) Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
Genres	Garage rock, power pop, alternative rock, rock
Occupation(s)	Musician, producer, architectural designer
Instruments	Vocals, guitar
Years active	1972–present
Labels	Citadel, White, Mushroom, Shock, Bomp!, Head, Off the Hip, Butterfly
Associated acts	The Go-Starts The Stems Stonefish Summer Suns The Someloves Dom Mariani's Orange DM3 Stoneage Hearts The Crusoes The Five Alive Majestic Kelp The DomNicks
Website	www.dommariani.com
Notable instruments
Rickenbacker 330 Fireglo

Domenic Desio Mariani (born 1958) is an Australian guitarist, vocalist, producer, and songwriter. Mariani has been a member of several bands since the early 1980s, including The Stems, The Someloves, DM3, Datura, The Majestic Kelp and the Domnicks. The Stems is the best-known and most successful of Mariani's projects. Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane described the power pop group as "one of the best live bands on the Australian scene".

In 2005 Mariani was inducted into the West Australian Music Industry Awards Hall of Fame. In August of that year he curated a double-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". Outside his music career, Mariani's main occupation is as an architectural designer. His son John Mariani and nephew Dion Mariani were mainstays of a pre-teenagegarage rock band called The Flairz from 2003 to 2009.

Mariani was born in 1958 and grew up in Fremantle, Western Australia. Mariani is the son of Italian migrants from Abruzzo, his father, Giovanni Mariani (born 29 March 1927 in Fresagrandinaria) was a farm and factory hand who arrived in Fremantle in September 1951; his grandfather Domenico Mariani (24 August 1901 – 9 March 1971) arrived in 1955. His mother, Giovanna Mariani (born 1 June 1937 in Scerni), arrived in May 1957. Mariani has a brother Lorenzo (known as Laurie) and a sister Maria.

He received his first guitar at age nine. He took lessons with Wally Harland at the Fremantle Guitar Studio in his early teens. Mariani's earliest bands during his high school years were The Nit Wits and Impact. .