In 2001, Korel also won an endowment from the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, a Creative Achievement Award grant, as an Emerging Artist.
The next year he played guitar with actress Jada Pinkett Smith's Metal band, Wicked Wisdom.
[1] He also played on their song Before It's too Late for the soundtrack of the Transformers movie and is in the live DVD releases from Red Rocks and Capitol Records Studios.
Tunador was a key part of the re-interpreting of Katy Perry's songs for a taping of MTV Unplugged, which has also been released as an album and DVD.
He also co-produced, arranged, and recorded a medley of the Song of the Year nominees in a Cabaret style that Perry performed when she hosted the MTV Europe Music Awards again in 2009.