Sam Pomanti is a keyboardist, composer and producer from Toronto based in Tokyo. He has performed as a live musician all throughout his native Canada as well as internationally, in arenas, theatres, and clubs alike. Sam’s breadth of musical knowledge and varied skillset as a keyboardist, composer, orchestrator, and accomplished student of the Japanese language (JLPT N1) has allowed him to enjoy success playing with a variety of artists around the world, such as BANKS, Koshi Inaba, Bazzi, Kim Mitchell, B’z, Richard Page of Mr. Mister, Scott Helman, Johnny Orlando, Anna Sofia, Mike Stern, and Ed Sheeran.
From 2019 Sam became very active in Japan. In summer 2019, Sam performed as keyboardist/background vocalist on a 3 and-a-half month, 39-show tour with B’z (Whole Lotta New Love: B’z LIVE-GYM 2019), one of Japan’s most influential bands, and the country’s biggest-selling band of all time. Throughout that same year, Sam handled the pre-production programming, much of the keyboard recording, and some synth bass recording on Japanese-American supergroup INABA/SALAS’s sophomore album Maximum Huavo, which debuted at #1 on Japan’s Billboard Hot Albums chart in April 2020.
