Ari O'neal
Ari started playing guitar when she was 10 at the Music and Arts Center, then joined a School of Music when she was 14.
First live playing guitar in churches, then jam session and gigs in the clubs ;
while always volunteered at music school teaching little kids guitar ;
She’s always been very active on social media and.. one day one of her videos caught the eye of Beyonce’s music director, Derek Dixie, and they ended up asking her to do Beychella, and the OTRII tour.
From there, Ariel toured with Fantasia, Normani, Lizzo, and SZA. Austin City Limits with Jon Batiste, CMT specials with Nelly, the Grammy’s with SZA, the Oscars, and even a DNC convention with John Legend and Sheila E.
In 2021 relased the song ” home ” and in 2025 the song ” time for mess ”
Ariel performed with some of the biggest artists in the world, playing acoustic, electric, ukulele, and lap steel guitar.
We met Ari thanks to a dear friend from Italy, Cristian from Liuteria Bona, that built for her the beautiful custom guitar you can see in the pictures, loaded with the #1st edition of my brass mesh single coil pickups.
After some time I had the idea to build for Ari an unique model, inspired by her style and so the copper mesh became the pickup..
This time before to install the pickups, Ariel had the pretty idea to shoot some pictures with them .. and I can ‘t be happier..
GRAZIE ARI
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