Career
He established and received the first Guinness World Record for The Fastest Harmonica Player. Nicky Shane (born Mitchell Pieracci in Palo Alto, California) is a stand-up comic best known for his character "The Buzzard". He is also a painter, musician, songwriter, and screenwriter.
He grew up in San Jose, California whose mother Toni Pieracci was a single parent.
During his career, Nicky Shane has written hundreds of works including screenplays, sitcom pilots, novels, poetry, and short stories, and over 12-hours of stand-up comedy material. He has released 10 CDs as a musician many as The Nicky Shane Band, and as a visual artist he"s painted nine different watercolor (pen and ink) series.
These include "2012 Harmonica Calendar","Voluptuous Mermaids", Stand-up Comedy", "Rock and Blues", "European Pastels", "Community Skateboard". In January, 2014, Nicky completed taping his "Nicky "The Buzzard" Shane Comedy Special" in Louisville, Kentucky, a 45-minute stand-up comedy show performed at the 486-seat Eifler Threater.
