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Hi guys, We've been doing loads of gigs in houses of fans over the past year and a half and we've finally made it to the point of having a camera crew coming with us to televise the gigs!!! So, if you would like us to come to your house, just send and email and give us a good reason for why you'd like us to come and play an intimate acoustic gig at your house for you and your friends. We'll have some more footage from the house gigs up in the next week or so!!! :) Check out my blog and videos to find out more!! :) x indiana gregg
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INDIANA GREGG – BIOGRAPHYI was born in the rural Midwestern town of Terre Haute, famous simply for being the 'cross-roads of America', where highways 40 and 41 intersect running from east and west, north and south across the United States. My mother taught dance and art and my father worked in the aluminum industry. We were avid 'church goers' and the gospel influences are probably apparent in some of my music today.When I started primary school I had a very strong speech impediment. I was speaking out of the side of my mouth, like Looney Tune’s ‘Sylvester the Cat’, and had a stammer that made communicating in class more or less impossible. This, combined with the fact I had to wear corrective shoes and leg braces, made me similar to a female version of the young ‘Forest Gump’.After being introduced to a speech therapist I spent a couple of hours a week learning to speak through various methods of communication, including singing. My speech teacher asked me to go home and write poems that I would then have to sing. This was the birthing place of songwriting for me.During this period in my life my grandfather had a stroke and my father had a car accident. My mother had a lot on her plate keeping an eye on my three brothers, my grandfather and my dad. I therefore kept busy by teaching myself to play my grandmother's old upright piano by ear and pretending to be a singer.Before I knew what hit me I was getting roles in school plays and church musicals and I became known as 'the little girl who sings'. Children in the playground would ask me to sing radio hits for them. Ironically, the same kids that had been throwing rocks and making fun of my lisp just years earlier!By the time I reached secondary school I had picked up a few other instruments. I learned the trumpet and flute and had a go at the organ and keyboards. This period of my life was what I call my 'music tinkering' period. I was saving my lunch money for school every day to buy the new 45' single of the week and spent my church money betting on what would be the top three hits of the week in the charts. At the time, big artists like Aretha Franklin, Lionel Richie, Don Henley, Phil Collins, Cindy Lauper, Elton John, Prince, later U2 and eventually Nirvana really made a huge impact on me.Between the ages of 12 and 16 I wrote hundreds of tunes which I recorded onto a Panasonic tape deck. A friend of mine had a reel-to-reel and we would cut tapes together and also play around with radio songs pretending to be 'mixers'. My eldest brother was attending Bible College in Tennessee, readily preparing to devote his life to the Ministry. My second eldest brother was doing religious seminars entitled "Rock-n-Roll revelation" - A didactic outcry against sex, drugs and rock-n-roll. In the meantime I was at home bombarding my mother with questions about life, death and God as the onset of adolescence gave reign to a rather naive yet philosophical Indiana Gregg.All was fine until I met my future German husband during my last term at University where I committed the ultimate sin....I fell pregnant! Suddenly, my life became jumbled and I moved to Europe. I hardly knew my new husband and we naively set up house in the south of France.Within a year we began a chain of moves throughout Europe from Nice to Helsinki, Nurnberg to Stuttgart, Manchester and back to the French Riviera. I passed through a multitude of European cities and cultures over a period of 5 years. In every city we would set up house, I would learn the language, and somehow integrate with musicians in the local scene.Aware that I had young children, I restricted rehearsals to mostly day-time hours while the children were at nursery. Because I was entering into adulthood and was a parent, I reverted to what I had found in bible-belt America and joined an international church where old gospel influences from my youth resurfaced. I formed a new band with gospel/R&B and rock influences and started to revisit some religious territory, basically trying to work out what life was all about.In 2003, I went through a rough patch in my personal life. My husband had been working abroad a lot and eventually left me and my three children for his secretary. Shattered, shocked and disillusioned, I found solace in my music.Shortly after the separation I was invited to do a record on the Kool & the Gang album "The Hits Reloaded". Getting my confidence back through music helped me give my children the stability they needed. They were a huge inspiration to me during this period as our creativity bounced off each other, and a real sense of joy came out of something that could have broken our spirits.I wrote a load of new songs based on 10 jam-packed years of life experience. I found myself retrieving my childhood memories of when I was "the strange girl who speaks funny and wears leg braces". I had magically fallen back in love with songs and all the confidence it had brought me from those years in speech therapy. It was as if I'd put my dancing shoes back on again, only this time I had a palette of colorful life experiences behind me. I guess life was bringing me back to my first love and my first source of confidence.The songs became a diary again. As I looked through them and listened to them, I started to recognize who I was and where I wanted to be. This learning curve and new experiences of the music business inspired me to title my debut album "Woman at Work" - the culmination of juggling three children, recording and producing a new album, jumping through hoops, and finally landing a deal.I have millions of aspirations, but I enjoy the “route” a lot more than the “destination”. So much of who we are comes from where we’ve been and who we’ve hung around with. I may not be able to tell you where I'll be in the future, but, I can tell you that I'll enjoy every minute getting there!

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Member Since: 9/7/2007
Band Website: indianagregg.com
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Tour Dates:TOUR - 2007 Wednesday 28 March 2007 Plymouth Pavilions Thursday 29 March 2007, Bournemouth Intl Centre Friday 30 March 2007, Cardiff Intl Arena Sunday 1 April 2007, Ipswich Regent Monday 2 April 2007, Norwich UEA Tuesday 3 April 2007, Southend Cliffs Pavilion Thursday 5 April 2007, Leicester De Montford Hall Friday 6 April 2007, Swindon Oasis Saturday 7 April 2007, Brighton Centre Monday 9 April 2007, Hammersmith Apollo Tuesday 10 April 2007, Hammersmith Apollo
Watch this space.... more dates to be announced for fall 2007/spring2008

Soulful & Positive "Woman At Work"Utterly irresistible and dazzlingly vibrant, Indiana Gregg’s debut album Woman At Work skilfully fuses infectious soulful pop with sweeping rock to create out-and-out the most refreshing sound of 2007.Born in the bible-belt of the Midwest, Indiana Gregg’s debut album is the sound of an artist truly coming of age, with world travels and life experience fuelling her highly polished songwriting. Now based in Glasgow, this divorced mum-of-three has a maturity and authenticity that gives rise to a strong vein of female confidence which courses through her material. From this springs a set of songs that are musically sophisticated and lyrically worldly-wise.As a child Indiana suffered from a strong speech impediment and underwent years of speech therapy to try and overcome this condition. Music and singing emerged as Indiana’s main avenue of communication, through which she learned how to express her innermost feelings.‘Woman At Work’ is a document of Indiana’s life, personally described by her as a ‘musical diary’. The album conveys a wide scope of human emotion, from the playful frustrations laid down in the catchy ‘Oh Me Oh My’, to the beautifully melancholic meanderings of ‘Love Is Blind’.The album title is self-revealing, a pointer towards a woman who has lived a life day-to-day, bringing up her three children and simply getting by.Indiana says: “As I worked on these songs I started to recognise who I was and where I wanted to be. Artistically it was a kind of revelation which became the storyboard for songs on the album”.After recording the album ‘The Hits Reloaded’ with Kool & The Gang and supporting Wet Wet Wet on tour, Indiana camped out in a studio for much of 2006, creating her first major release with Wet Wet Wet’s producer Ian Morrow. The album is funded in part by Ingenious, a new arts trust that provides financial support for talented independent artists and bands.“WHAT IF GOD WAS ONE OF US?”
From Helsinki to Manchester, Germany to France, and London to Glasgow; Indiana Gregg has certainly met the odd saint while on her busking tours throughout Europe. It’s not surprising that the billboard award-winning songwriter should choose such a thought provoking song as a lead single from her debut album “Woman At Work”. “One of Us for me seems to put life into perspective. How we view others and how we view ourselves.” Indiana describes the song as ‘timeless’ and put simply “a brilliant and thought provoking song”.The Glasgow-based singer-songwriter has spent most of 2007 touring the UK in festivals and supports slots as well as a “Home Concert” tour throughout the United Kingdom where she literally played in her fans living rooms. Her home concert tours gained her enormous media attention through spring and summer with spreads in The Daily Mirror, The Sunday Herald, The Sunday Mail, The Glasgow Herald, The Scotsman and a host of national magazines and weeklies.“We didn’t realise that the media would be so interested in us simply playing for our fans in their homes. But it was a way for us to get out there and many of the gigs allowed us to play for between 20-50 people,” states Ms. Gregg. Her songs touch all kinds of people, including a number of charities. One in particular, the Ovarian Cancer Group in Northern London got in touch with us which resulted in a gig at their ‘house’ which was covered extensively by press and TV. “Our intention was to get out there and play and go and see the people who have been supporting us. No big cannons or fireworks, just simple settings with real people.”With the release of the single, a new house gig tour is to take place alongside an extensive regional radio session tour. Indiana’s critically acclaimed version of “One of Us” is already picking up airplay.This is just a great cover of a great song. A song that speaks in a child-like language… with an adult message. So perhaps, in today’s political and social climate, provoking a bit of thought about finding hope in all of us, isn’t necessarily such a bad idea.Indiana Gregg’s “One of Us” is available on iTunes and 7-digital and all good record stores October 8th, 2007To pre-order the download: text One Of Us to 78789Indiana's single "One of Us" is earmarked for release October 8th, 2007 For further information please contact: Jem Bahaijoub or Sarah Gartside Zest PR [email protected] / [email protected] Tel. 0207 734 0206 .. ..You can pre-order the Album on Amazon. Click Here!Sheryl Crow, Nathalie Imbruglia, Shania Twain, Melissa Etheridge, Dido, Sarah McLachlan

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