Winner of a top ten Billboard Magazine choice award at the U.S. Northeast Independent World Music Series for his album Brooklyn Days, Elie Massias has shared the stage and recorded with many of today’s leading jazz and world music greats, including Ben Street, John Hebert, Henry Hey, Brian Blade, Chris Cheek, Jimmy Weinstein, Frank Colon, Debbie Deane, Reid Anderson, Dan Reiser, Larry Goldings, Gary Thomas, Jeff Ballard, and many more. Born in Gibraltar, a small British colony on the southernmost tip of Spain, Massias began studying guitar as a child and learned flamenco, classical, and other styles. By age eleven, he was studying with Gibraltar’s leading classical guitarist, William Gomez. Massias later studied at the renowned Jerusalem Academy of Music, before moving to the U.S. and graduating from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Since moving to New York City in 1994, Massias has garnered critical acclaim as both a jazz and world music performer, and as a music producer and arranger.
