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4 Diversity Rules Magazine April 2014 Lovari, born and raised in New York, reached #1 on both the iTunes and Am- azon R&B New Releases Chart in December 2012 with the single "Still In Love", from his album "No Holding Back", featuring production from J. Staffz (Wiz Khalifa, G Unit), Infinite, and Grammy Award nominee Kaydean Phillips. "No Holding Back" has been certified a Silver Award on DatPiff.Com for over 25,000 downloads. It is the followup to his award winning album "The Statement". Lovari was fea- tured on the front cover of Get Out Magazine in 2012 and preceded his album release with perfor- mances at Jacob Javits Center in NYC and Bronx's Crotona Park Stage. The "No Holding Back" album was released in the summer of 2012. The preview single and music video "Foolish Beat" was featured on PerezHilton. Com and the lead single "Keep It Movin'" (feat. Loco Ninja) reached Amazon.Com's Top 40 R&B Singles Chart and Top 30 Digital DJ U.S. R&B Chart. The most recent single "Still In Love (Duet w/ Anny Jules) reached #1 on iTunes and Amazon R&B New Releases Chart and is currently climbing various U.S. charts. Lovari is also a SAG-AFTRA actor, appearing in the films "Salt" (w/ Angelina Jolie) and the NYI- IFVF Award Winning short film "Shore Thing", which he also co-directed. For three consecutive seasons, Lovari has appeared sporadically on the television series "Law & Order: SVU" as one of the precinct detectives. Production will begin on the film "The Agent" in the summer of 2013, in which he will co-star. JRK: Can you give Diversity Rules an idea of who Lovari is, a bit about your background and how it impacted the person you are today? L: I was born and raised in Queens, NY. As a child, I was heavily into books. My parents paid attention to me and took my little brother and I to various places, but for some reason, I always had this mentality of wanting to have time for myself independently, so that I can explore and learn things on my own. As far as favorite entertainment characters, I loved Pinoc- chio, Wonder Woman, sharks, and monster movies. Nice combo, eh? I suppose I took elements of those things and they shaped my personality. JRK: During your time at Queensborough College you started venturing into the club circuit and you met some folks that led you to the person you'd do your first demo with. Can you tell us a bit about that experience? L: I consider my college years and the two years after that as the most important in shaping my attitude toward things and preparing me for the obstacles that I would face in my personal life and forthcoming ca- reer. Although I was always a person of good sense and fairly high intellect, I barely went to high school in my junior and senior years. I was cutting school and going to the Village and trying to soak in the artistic and verbal aspect of myself, which I wasn't satisfied doing in my own hood. However, once I began college, I was responsible for some of my tu- ition, and therefore, I had an epiphany, so to speak, about wanting to learn, and to actually enjoy it in the process. My professors inspired me to want to learn even more so on my own. at was the fun part. e extremely difficult part was that the love of my life at the time, abruptly broke up with me a day before we were supposed to move into an apartment together in the Lower East Side. So, on top of being devastated and in an extremely heartbroken hell of pain, I had to take on another job to keep the apartment, which equaled 12 plus working days, and then trying to get my demo around at night. One morning, I almost collapsed on the floor of one of my jobs. at is where the lyrics for my song "Turn Around" came from. JRK: Your single "Still in Love" from your album "No Holding Back" hit #1 on the I-tunes and A Conversation With Lovari Releases "I Wanna Be Loved" An Interview By Jim Koury, Editor/Publisher

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