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This is music to accompany a very private dinner with the person you love most. Great old love songs sung beautifully in a manner that will remind you of Mario Lanza or Robert Goulet. Listen and enjoy! ARTISTBIO: About the Artist/Andrew Heller After winning numerous competitions and singing awards in his teenage years and singing light opera, musicals, and formal church solos professionally to earn much of his way during his university years, Andrew Heller turned his attentions to high technology. He spent 23 years at IBM working his way to the very top echelons of technical and business management at the company. Among his awards and titles was the honor of being the youngest person ever appointed to the position of IBM Fellow, a lifelong title. He also served as the head (president) of the Independent Business Unit (IBU) at IBM, located in Austin, Texas, that created the family of computers and software now known as the RS6000, the Power PC family of microprocessors (that are now in Apple computers) and AIX. After leaving IBM in the late 1980s, he has spent the last 14+ years in the creation and building of young and new high technology companies both as a venture capitalist and as and entrepreneur, a career that he continues to pursue today. Although he started these activities in the famed Silicon Valley, he returned to his beloved Austin in 1993 where he has remained. Throughout the period from the late 1960s through the 1990s he continued singing to his wife of over three decades and a few select friends at anniversaries, birthdays, and other important family events. He also sang occasionally at various charity events and benefits as well as at an occasional party, but he did not pursue singing as a serious vocation or avocation. It was his wife, Mary Ann who finally convinced him by presenting him with a Christmas present of his first CD, to open his heart and his songs to a broader audience and to record CDs that would be available to the general public. The reaction to his first CD "Be My Love" sold to people in the central Texas area has been remarkable and surprised both he and his wife. (Be My Love is available at CDBaby.com and at several local Austin merchants). El Paso is Andrew?s first effort at recording his long loved country, western and folk ballads, many of which he has sung and enjoyed since childhood. This CD and especially the original recording exists as the result of requests from several friends and admirers living in Austin, New York, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Maui, and Nashville among other places. Sprinkled among the songs on the CD are old favorites, some new CW songs, and a little known old tune from the hills of West Virginia that Andrew learned as a child. Also in the works for 2004 is a Christmas CD that will be in stores in time for Christmas festivities. This CD brings back many of the great musical sounds and well known songs that have warmed hearts for generations but have not been recorded like this for many years. The CD has something for everyone who loves great music, fabulous singing, and Texas swinging. Both Andrew and his wife remain deeply committed to Austin and Texas and both support and serve in many educational, musical, and philanthropic organizations