Teressa Wilcox was born and raised in Rochester, N.Y. Her musical journey began at a very early age. She learned to play the piano when she was 6 years old and guitar when she was 13. In the earlier years of High School Teressa starting writing songs. In 2001 she recorded a 5 track album and sold copies around her High School. Her sound is described as heartfelt acoustic rock with a sound of her own. Teressa has opened for Asia, Richard Julian and Paul Freeman along with afterparty shows for Rusted Root, Blues Traveler and even sang for former president Bill Clinton. Teressa has also headlined the Rochester famous 10 Ugly Men Festival.At 19 she began working with producers and songwriters in the U.K. wich included Damian Le Gassick,www.discogs.com/artist/Damian+LeGassick
Michael Scherchen, www.discogs.com/artist/Michael+Scherchen
and Brio Taliaferro.www.365artists.com/pages/producers.php?artistID=3
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A recording trip to Scotland in 2002 lead to numerous trips to London, England where she performed at pubs, worked with established songwriters, and producers, and ultimately signed a publishing contract with famous lyricist Don Black. www.donblack.co.uk/ Most recognizable for writing "Born Free", "Diamonds are Forever", "To Sir with Love" etc...
Two songs that Teressa has co wrote have been released in the U.K.(Laura Michelle Kelly - "stumbling") www.lauramichellekelly.co.uk/
as well as Australia (Tamin Sursok "something better" www.imdb.com/name/nm0839730/
Teressa is a singer/songwriter who draws raw emotion from her heart into songs that people can relate too. Her Acoustic/Rock/Pop style will not only move you, but it will stop you in your tracks. From her broken hearts to her outright honesty it is clear that her passion is to live and breath music. She is currently in the studio working on her second album and will be touring the North East.
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