Interview with professional composer and musician, vince dicola

Join Ryan as he interviews Vincent Louis "Vince" DiCola, who is an American composer, keyboardist and arranger.

On the night I speak to Vince DiCola, it is only fitting that his music play such a pivotal role in our interview. Not just the fact it's what brought us together after my falling in love with it during my formative years, but also because it provided much needed inspiration while running for the train I must catch in order to make the interview on time.

It's a minute until the train leaves - can I make it? With Vince in my ears, of course I can. I'm not exactly bench-pressing old horse carts in the Siberian cold, but it's just as satisfying as I slip through the closing doors before the train leaves platform 3. The rest of the journey was getting my breath back for the call. Of course, I tell Vince all of this as soon as we start speaking.

He laughs warmly which makes it all worth it. From there we launch straight into how Vince started his journey out to LA in the early 80's with aspirations of working as a session musician while developing his own music projects. I was with a cover band managed by a gentleman named Dave Bupp.

Vince is most known for his amazing synth skills as well as composing the soundtrack for the Transformers: The Movie and Rocky IV. We.

He took me aside and said, "Listen, I feel like you've gone as far as you can go in this area and I really recommend that you move to one of the big music meccas in the United States. I chose Los Angeles because it's where a lot of the music that I was listening to was coming from. I got married in May of and literally a week later my wife and I moved across the country.

It was a difficult move because we were leaving all our family and friends. It didn't take too long after arriving in the City of the Angels for good fortune to smile down on him with the face of Frank Stallone. One night, Frank Stallone came in, I recognized him somewhat because he looks so much like his brother but I didn't know him.