This is Samir el Veldadero. I worked side by side with him for a little over 3 years as a manager, producer and friend. We made tons of music and learn a lot from each other and celebrated much success. especially in South American. The track was produced and mixed by a very close friend of mine, and some who I consider a mentor. Duane "MidiLord" Summers. I PRODUCED the music video and arranged and recorded the vocals.
Talk about making it happen on a LOW BUDGET!!! This entire video was shot for $800. When you are on a tight budget you have to learn to be CREATIVE. One night at a gig Samir was performing at, we met a student director and pitched him the idea of shooting a music video. Its turns out students have access to AMAZING equipment and need to make projects to pass their class....Go Figure. I think I may have paid him $100...Maybe $200...but no more then that. We pulled permits from the city and shot under the famous Miami Rickenbacker Bridge. I chose there for many reasons. Having grown up in Miami, I had been there many times and I new that in that 1 location we could shoot from many different angles and would not have to relocate. We had a city shot, parking lot shot, fence shot, beach shot and probably something else.
Of course every dance music video need hot girls so for the girls we just went to the malls and asked the prettiest girls we saw if they wanted to be in a music video... and OF COURSE THEY DID. ITS MIAMI TRICK!!! Also, I had Samir performing at least twice a week and different night clubs and venues around town so beautiful girls were easy to come by. When it came to the choreography, we were lucky enough to run into some young ladies who danced, while at one of our own performances. We pitched them the idea of free exposure in exchange for some dancing. We also found a local car club on Myspace (because it was the bomb back in the day) that was willing to make same exchange for some publicity.
We rented a Port-O-Potty and the rest of the money went to water and food for everyone. I had one of my best friends Dean Spaulding work magic on the BBQ grill (a favor so big i couldn't thank him enough). And, what everyone would remember most is that that day ended up being the coldest day of the year. On top of that, we were right by the water and therefore the breeze/ wind-chill was killing us. But it was a great night and even better memories. If you look closely you may have a "Coach Sighting" towards the end of the video....lol
follow Samir: https://es-la.facebook.com/pages/Samir-El-Verdadero-II/185769558166308
follow Duane "MidiLord" Summers: https://www.facebook.com/duane.summers1
follow Director Rashaud Michel: http://vimeo.com/user3497640
