Dominic, URN’s founder and primary songwriter, has been active in professional rock music for the better part of fifteen years.  URN is best described as his catharsis from his most inner demons, and allows him to integrate the darker aspects of his personality into a more constructive manner.

Dominic trained classically for guitar at the Catalano Conservatory of Music in Pennsylvania, and is currently training in classical voice under Dr. Carol LoVerde at Columbia College in Chicago.  He also was an upright bassist for the John Carroll University Jazz Ensemble for four years and had won awards at various jazz competitions.

He graduated from John Carroll University in Cleveland, OH with degrees in Psychology and Communications.  Upon his graduation, he worked in commercial radio in Cleveland at WNCX (98.5) and the ill-fated WENZ (107.9), and was heavily involved in their coverage of the ribbon-cutting of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Early in Dominic’s professional career he formed URN, originally as a death metal band, and also performed in another band called Sacrosanct, a gothic-rock band, which his long time friend Michelle Belanger was the lead singer and had also collaborated with Ed Douglas (of Midnight Syndicate fame) through various projects during their days at John Carroll together.