Kissing Violet welcomes you to our MySpace page. Thanks for listening and experiencing our KV world. We can’t wait to hear from you, see you on the road and at shows. Enjoy the music!
Kissing Violet is Elia Saldaña, David Vaughn and Jesse Beckman.
Kissing Violet is rock, pop, dance and alternative music that creates an intense future rock sound.
Kissing Violet has been the brainchild of keyboardist David Vaughn for several years. David has had the pleasure of working with several great collaborators, co-writers and mentors. This process has now shown itself to be that all-important “artist development†phase that you hear so much about. Finally, after sticking to the vision while at the same time fully exploring it, the puzzle pieces sorted themselves out and David’s project attracted those who would become the band to release the actual debut Kissing Violet record!
David and Jesse Beckman have been relentlessly recording and tracking the record during a good period of this process. And then along came Elia!
With the addition of Elia Saldaña on vocals the journey was finally complete. And as with all great journeys, once you get there, you see that the real adventure is just beginning.
We are so excited to share our music with you. We want to thank all the KV supporters who have been waiting for the project to mature. So to fans, family and friends old and new….. Let’s rock 2008!
Here’s some music info for those who want to know…
Elia Saldaña sings lead vocals and also contributes additional lyrics. She also has sung all her backgrounds and harmonies on this record.
David Vaughn is the keyboard player, main lyricist and producer. He also plays the drums and synth bass on the record. Of course engineering and mixing also are a part of the experience that David contributes to the final product.
Jesse Beckman is the lead guitar player. He also plays bass on several songs.
KV features a signature melded keyboard and guitar combination, coupled with beautifully distinctive vocal character and melody. This is a pop rock record that takes various unique instruments, moods and sounds into our vision for each of the songs on the Kissing Violet album. Call it dark edgy pop, with a very sharp edge. Kissing Violet has 9 songs fully recorded and ready for the album. These are among the large catalog that David, Jesse and Elia have been cultivating to assemble the actual record. We are on schedule to complete the album, and then turn it in to have it distributed both in stores and online soon in 2008!
KISSING VIOLET has a song in a great cross-promotion with on-line anime/ i-manga producer TOKYOPOP. Check out the KV song "Feel The Disease" in the TokyoPop series Bizenghast. TOKYOPOP is the world’s biggest supplier of mangas. They have chosen the Kissing Violet song to be the theme for the Bizenghast series. Thanks to TokyoPop and MySpace for this cool cross cultural and multi-media presentation!Check out our thank you page on our website for a list of some of our favorite people andcollaborators both in and out of the studio. (Please note: This page is temporarily replaced with the Contact page, while we assemble the new dot com.) And of course..thanks to our KV fans!..Also, check the Kissing Violet website for more news and band events.
Listen to Arizona’s 98 KUPD FM radio and hear Kissing Violet! We are currently being featured on Jonathan L’s radio show. Jonathan is a taste maker Dj who has watched the evolution of Kissing Violet and we are very excited to have his support. Check out his whole show, he plays some very interesting stuff!
Click on the www.98kupd.com banner to go to the station and stream the broadcast on your PC if you are not in the Arizona area. Much of Jonathan’s listenership is worldwide, so you will be in good company with other music fans looking for a cool show. Thanks Jonathan!