Roy Lev-Ari was born in Nairobi, Kenya where he attended the Italian school of Kenya and then finished his high school studies in the International school of Kenya. Roy started playing music in his early teenage years when he fell in love with the guitar and heavy metal music.  That combination allowed Roy to spring his passion for music and ever since then he has studied and enriched his knowledge of music.

   

    After graduating high school with honors in music Roy decided to continue his studies as a musician and pursue an education in music from the prestigious Berklee College of music in Boston Massachusetts.  In his years in Boston Roy studied with some of the greatest teachers and learned many secrets of music graduating and receiving a bachelor’s with honors in performance, composition and Music Production.  In his Time at Berklee Roy also studied many different styles of music such as Blues, Jazz, classical, Funk, World Music, Rock, Bossa Nova, Samba, Tango and much more. Roy also began picking up other instruments to further augment his knowledge such as drums, piano and bass.  Roy has been playing guitar and bass together ever since.

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   After graduating from Berklee, Roy relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a career in music.  In his time in Los Angeles Roy’s talents have placed him many endorsements with companies such as Ibanez guitars,  Peavy amplifiers,  Earnie  Ball strings, Line 6, In Tune Picks, Mental Case and Laney Amplifiers. Roy’s musicianship talents have also allowed him to tour the world, and share stages with many artists such as Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Iron Maiden, Korn, Rob Zombie, Limp Bizkit, Green day, Alice in Chains,  Avenged.

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    Roy has also ventured in composition, production, mixing and mastering and ventured in creating music of many different styles and has had placements on tv shows such as Duck Dynasty, Dukes Of Haggle, Honey Boo Boo, Alien Mysteries and more. 

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