I started playing piano when I was 6 years old in Savannah, GA because I couldn't figure out how the hell to do ballet. (I still have no idea how to do ballet). I was classically trained in Jacksonville, FL until my teacher moved to virginia. I got a new teacher who played and sang gospel that taught me the like. Then I turned into a teenager and stopped playing all together because weed was more fun -- until a fellow classmate came to me and asked me if I would write music to a poem she had written for graduation. I said yes. But I was scared shitless because I didn't know what I was going to do with it.
She hummed a few notes of the melody and I took it home to work with it. I ended up writing the graduation song for the class of 2001 of Bishop Kenny High School. It was played for 3,000 people. That felt good.
I got a job at Chuck E. Cheese (weird, I know) when I was 16 years old. Many of my co-workers were in a band and it wasn't long until they introduced me to a whole new world [I was a private catholic school girl aka sheltered]: rock, marijuana and alcohol. Although, at parties, I spent a lot of time cooped up in a room trying to fiddle around with this thing they called a guitar with my then buddy Juan. While everyone else was out drinking and laughing, he taught me everything he knew and introduced me to other musicians and bands (Sentrpoint, Smaktdown (now Burn Season), Clone Defect, Nefarion, Surface, the list goes on) who ended up teaching me everything they knew. I found a new love: Guitar.
Christmas, one year later, my mother asked me what I wanted for christmas. This birthed a $100 guitar now known as the "StarGazer" (which I still have, and I still play). I spent the next several years impatient and frustrated trying to keep up with these guys that were better players than I was. (I'm still catching up. What can I say? They're amazing.)
Sometime during, I worked with fellow awesome human and good friend Rob Roy and another great human Mr. Luke Walker (The Summer Obsession) to create the song playing currently on my profile "Hey Buddy".
I spent the next several months being part of and performing as "The Last Minutes", Rob Roy's over-joyed and super cool back up singers -- very aptly named, I might add. (Last minute ass Rob!) Amazingly, this was the first time myself and my brother, Willie Evans Jr, (Asamov / The ABs) had shared a stage. That was the best thing I could have ever done. I began to perform around town with my friends' bands, featuring on their projects, sitting in and playing the open mics they hosted until I was comfortable to be on my own feet.
5 years, 5 guitars, 4 gigs, a banjo and several open mic shows later I'm just about ready to go out on my own. I just got done singing on a track for one of my best friends, Bobby Amaru , (Burn Season) for his new solo project (which rocks by the way! I'm so proud of him). Check him and other artists I've worked with out. They're amazing!
I'LL HAVE MY MUSIC UP SOON! UNTIL THEN, ENJOY SOME ROB ROY RHYMES, BRANDEIS BITES, LUKE WALKER PRODUCTIONS, AND WILLIE EVANS BEATS IN "HEY BUDDY" or check out "Love Lies and Therapy" by Bobby Amaru
I edited my profile with 300 whooping Llamas !
