Biography
Marianne Nowottny is a contemporary artist, painter, composer, entrepreneur, and poet living Southwest Florida.
Marianne's earliest memory is watching Dracula's Castle, a fun house built on a pier on the small island of Brigantine, burning into the sea. "I often questioned myself if I had made up the memory because the image was so surreal. I was holding my mom's hand trying to find a good view being a small child in a crowd of onlookers as the beautiful make-believe castle burned and crumbled into the sea...." After the addition of the world wide web, she was able to confirm that this memory was actually real.
Marianne was born in New York in 1982. Her siblings consist of two brothers and a sister. Her father was born in Hamburg, Germany and immigrated to the U.S. in the 1950's. Her father was a greaser in a motorcycle gang who became a bodyguard for a goodfella entertainment industry. He bodyguarded Fleetwood Mac, Cheryl Tiegs, Tom Jones, and Frank Sinatra. Her mother was born to a very German-Hungarian proud family. She was accepted to Julliard for classical piano but instead chose to attend the University of Heidelberg for Global Business. Marianne's mother, Nancy, although small in stature, could play Rachmaninov and often did in the house from a free piano that was brought home after finding it in the free classifieds.
Marianne's grandparents influenced her musical tastes with their passion for records. Her youth was filled with German Oompah music, Hungarian folk (including Hungarian-Turkish folk), and lots of vintage Calypso. Marianne Nowottny later in life began collecting records drawing from these influences especially with a large majority of the records being vintage Calypso.
Her father took her to Circuit City when she was 5 years old and told her to pick out a gift. She chose a Casio SK-1 which had a tiny simple sampler. From that day forward, she was inseparable from her keyboards. The family couldn't afford cable TV so they only had the constant rotation of Rogers and Hammerstein musicals on VHS as home entertainment. Soon, Marianne discovered a cable access show that aired on Sundays that showcased all of the new Bollywood music videos. To be continued....