Jack Ponti, a New Jersey-based singer and document manufacturer known for collaborations with artists like Bon Jovi and Alice Cooper,  , has died at age 66.
He passed aside on Monday, according to an online article. A cause of death was never identified.
Giacomo Pontoriero was born in Newark in 1958, and in the 1970s he played with a fresh Jon Bon Jovi in a band called the Rest. While the group cut, Ponti stayed in touch with the Perth Amboy chair, yet co-writing” Shot Through the Soul” from Bon Jovi’s self-titled comeback album in 1984.
” Jon and me really laid the nucleus for both of our careers playing in that band together” , , he said in a 2012 with Legendary Rock Interviews. It was a pretty significant day. We had great ambitions, good times, a learned a lot together. … It changed all of our life and I am endlessly grateful”.
Ponti went on to work with Alice Cooper, Nelson, Skid Row, India. Arie ( who he managed ), Boyz II Men and many others.
Ponti went on to launch the management company and report brand MRV Song in a 2012 interview that precise how he left writing and producing music in 1991.
” I had a]bad ] manager early on, so that inspired me to be a better manager when I went that route”, he said. ” I took people’s aspirations very seriously, I nevertheless do”.
Though he was “widely recognized for his artistic talent, it was his infinite love for his family, generosity of spirit, and brutal devotion that really defined him” , , reads an article in the Asbury Park Press.
Ponti is survived by his partner, Tatyana, girl Neva, daughter Jordyn and his girlfriend, Nikki.
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