Credentials
Joseph is an AMAZON BEST SELLING AUTHOR with his self-published and self-promoted debut audiobook “Time To Face This World (The Schizophrenic Diaries of Joseph A. Peragine)” peaking at the NUMBER #2 position on both the Amazon Best Sellers list and Amazon Most Wished For list, under the “Biographies/Memoirs/People With Disabilities” category. Joseph held the number #2 spot directly under Selma Blair’s New York Times Best Selling book “Mean Baby” and directly above Michael J. Fox’s number #3 best selling book “No Time Like The Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality”.
Joseph’s follow up release of “Time To Face This World (Series Trilogy boxed set Vol.1-Vol.3)” debuted as the #1 Amazon Bestselling New Release in Schizophrenia.
-Joseph’s song “Montage (Approaching The End Of Time)” was a first prize gold winner in the instrumental category of the 32nd Annual Mid-Atlantic Song Contest.
-Joseph’s song “(-) neg” was an honorable mention prize winner in the instrumental category of the 32nd Annual Mid-Atlantic Song Contest.
-Joseph has nine releases titled "Diagnosis: Schizophrenia Vol.1, Vol.2, Vol.3, Vol.4, Humans Being Human Beings, Mind Index, Missing Memory, Mainframe Computer World, and 33” featuring Chris Pennie on drums. (formerly Dillinger Escape Plan/Coheed and Cambria) There is an additional release titled “Mantra” featuring both Damon Che (Don Caballero) and Chris Pennie (Dillinger Escape Plan) on drums.
-Select albums of Joseph’s are featured on Pandora Radio.
-Joseph had teamed up with LEGENDARY RECORD PRODUCER RON NEVISON (Led Zeppelin, The Who, Ozzy Osbourne, The Rolling Stones, Bad Company, Heart, etc.), GRAMMY AWARD WINNING keyboardist, composer, arranger and record producer JEFF BOVA, Guitarist and Bassist TIM PIERCE (Shinedown, Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day, etc.), Drummer DENNY FONGHEISER (Bruce Springsteen, Heart, Roger Waters etc.) and Engineer KEN SLUITER (James Blunt, Weezer, Flogging Molly), to record and release a two-song single “All Alone Again and Dead”. Joseph had also video documented his experiences in working among some of the top players in the industry and had self-produced and released an award winning documentary. The "Recording Journal Video Documentary" had been chosen as an award recipient for "Music Documentary of the Year" by the 2010 LA Music Awards.
-Joseph's song "Dead" had been featured for a period of two months on the "Sonicbids Audio Channel" in flight radio on 3,244 national and international US Airways flights.
-Songs from Joseph's debut album "The Acoustic Diaries" had made the "Top 20" for the month of May 2005 on KCSN "Arts and Roots Radio" in California.
-Joseph's "Matter of Opinion" music video "Artist Profile" Documentary, "Recording Journal" Documentary and "Nobody Home" Short Film/Music Video had been aired on numerous networks and shows including Music Mix USA, Skope TV, The Underground TV, MashUp, Home Grown Video, PunkTV.ca, SE-TV and The Eclectic Show.
-Joseph's soundscape/ melodic/spoken word track "Suicide Countdown" had been featured as track#2 on the "Dig This Real Magazine Issue#14 Compilation.
-Joseph's stripped down, guitar and vocal version of his song "All Alone Again" had also been selected as a finalist in the 2009 Edition of the 100% Music Songwriting Contest as well as a nominee for the 2009 Independent Singer-Songwriter Association (ISSA) Contest.
-Joseph's full version of his song "All Alone Again" was chosen as a top ten finalist in the 7th annual International Acoustic Music Awards
-Joseph's song "Dead" was chosen as a semi finalist in the 2010 edition of the 100% Music Songwriting Contest..