VYTAS BRENNER - Today Latin American Pop Music (La Ofrenda De Vytas) (Pink Elephant PE 877.057) Holland 1974 LP
 | vinyl: NM (mint-) | cover: VG++ (excellent)

Vytas Brenner (born 19 September 1946, Tübingen, Germany – died 18 March 2004, Salzburg, Austria) was a Venezuelan guitar and keyboard player. His family migrated to Venezuela in 1949. His mother, Margarita Brenner, was an opera singer. In 1959, his family went to Italy and later to Spain where he founded a folk band: "Vytas Brenner Quartet", with his brother Haakon Brenner (bass), Jordi Sabates (drums, also a sound engineer) and Toti Soler (rhythm guitar). Later Jeanette Dimech joined them and they re-named as Brenner's Folk (and later Pic-Nic) before moving to Venezuela. They released and EP but soon after the Brenner brothers returned to Venezuela, where Vytas started a solo career. At 21 years old, Vytas moved to Tennessee, USA to study at the University of Tennessee's Music Conservatory, where he was a pupil of David Van Vactor. Later, at college in Nashville, Vytas took post-graduate courses in Electronic music with Professor Gilbert Trythall, and graduated with honors in 1972. In 1971 he started a duo named "Vitas & Mafe" with Venezuelan singer María Fernanda Márquez. In 1972 Brenner formed his own band, "La Ofrenda" (= The Offering) and recorded 5 very successful LP's until 1979