By Julie D’Aloiso
When Ben Morabito graduated 1991 from Nordonia high school, he was mainly interested in cars. He had tried wrestling early on and had to quit because of an injury. After that he blended in and stayed out of trouble. He currently works as an IT Project Manager at Momentive in Medina Ohio and got married a couple of weeks ago to Nordonia alumni Heather Powers. And like many people these days, he has a cool title to add to his resume. He is in a band called YodaPez (check them out on Facebook). The band which started around 2002 now includes: Ben on Lead Vocals, Jim “Smokinfingers” Cipiti – Guitars, vocals, Ron Miller – Drums, Nick Kiraly – Keyboards, bass, vocals.
The band plays mostly cover songs, but in an acoustic style. If you heard them play, you actually might like their version of the songs better than the original. Here is a selection of some of their favorites:
Through Glass by Stone Sour
Counting Blue Cars by Dishwalla
I Alone by Live
Running Away by Hoobastank
Broken by Seether
Why Part II by Collective Soul
She’s So Mean by Matchbox Twenty
She Talks to Angels by The Black Crowes
Hate My Life by Theory of a Deadman
The band has two upcoming performances:
July 16 at Aces in Middleburg Hts.
And
July 30th Ben and the band will play to his fellow graduates at the ’91 Nordonia High School 25 year reunion at Scoreboards after Rick Markosky’s band THE SHATTERED STIX plays and before Chris Faiken’s band THE DISCOUNTS!
Here is a quote from a big fan Mike Tapp!
Right on the money…with Presentation and Sound Acoustic guitar Jimi fills the room with Great Melodies that are chased down by Nick on bass & keyboard he may even belt out vocals…lol all this nailed by timing of the beats of the Drums.from..Tommy the Gun …Ron Miller..that provides the Plato…for Ben to ride the Waves of Melodies cross the Waters of YODAPEZ….slippery when Wet..
Check out this noteworthy video of the YodaPez band by NordoniaHills.News videographer/drone operator Gary Miller (Ron’s brother).
