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About Me

FENA means 'female dog' in Slovakian and 'fine' in Spanish. So basically speaking, I'm one fine bitch! ;p I've been singing and writing my own music since the age of 14yrs, performing all over the UK in a number of bands to include Midnite, The Push, Smack and Smooth Operator. I've worked with many artists, composers and engineers to include Watersound Productions, Max-a-Million, Lucky Leo, Dre Ghost & Big Boob. I've performed with Fallout at the La Brea festival opening for Peter Frampton. A favorite performance was at Ghengis Cohen's in Hollywood, where I performed some of my songs unplugged with a string quintet under the orchestration of Burt Bacharach's Rob Shrock. I've been called a triple-threat having trained & worked as a contemporary dancer, jazz/hiphop dancer for MTV, SkyTV and BBC1 TV back in UK, as well as paying my dues on the theatre circuit as an actress and singer in several musical productions. My brand new album is executive produced by Lawrence Rambo of Ramtech Industries / Micanopy Moon Productions, with engineering by Mike Ozy and my resident prodigy Rick Nuthman, production by DJ Dre Ghost of Mo Thugs/WutangClan and Sean Householder from the indie label Echosonic, where the album will be launched on itunes and at The Boneyard on a forthcoming date, with a little help from Grammy Award winning sound engineer Dave 'The Rainman' Banta and some friends at Boneyard Records.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/10/2006
Band Website: The Boneyard at tbyo.net
Band Members: It's just FENA and all FENA baby! Fena is a songwriter, sings lead and backing vox, plays rhythm guitar and piano. Her live band currently includes: Mike Johnson: Drums, Steve Brink: Bass, & Jason Dean/Bill Scott: Guitars. Musicians on the upcoming album include - Jorge Diaz. Julio Madriz, Julio Velasco. Ernesto Obregon, Smack & Sean Hurwitz. Dre Ghost may be making special guest appearances :)

Click on the spinning hub above to link to The Boneyard.

Influences: Old INXS, U2, FUEL, TOOL, THE CURE, THE PRETENDERS, COLDPLAY, STEREOPHONICS, ALL ABOUT EVE, Old NO DOUBT, MADONNA, PINK, LED ZEPPELIN, IRON MAIDON, SKYNARD, KRAVITZ, DANNY ELFMAN, RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS, NINE INCH NAILS, BEETHOVEN, AND EVERYONE ELSE THAT ROCKS.
Sounds Like: Listen to the album and decide for yourself :) Maybe a female fronted Fuel, without the gut-wrenching screaming if that makes any sense ...plus throw in some classical piano and an off the wall funk vibe with a twist of Danny Elfman ;) so generally, I don't think I sound particularly like anyone else I can think of....and that's a good thing!
Record Label: ECHOSONIC/BONEYARD RECORDS
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Mafia Wars

OMG! Rick made me join the app. Mafia Wars and now I'm addicted! It's so stupid yet so much fun.....it's such a waste of time, but I can't help but spend 10 mins burning through my energy and stamina ...
Posted by FENA on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:58:00 PST

Home

Went back to UK for a 2 week vacation and just got back! Had a great time. Spent it almost entirely with my parents, who had both taken holidays from work. We went to Warwick castle, Stratford upon Av...
Posted by FENA on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:55:00 PST

Sick n pissed

Rick and I have managed to come over sick. Some kind of cold/flue bug. We've been over working and trying to hit the gym as well. This is what we get for it. I'm pissed cos I have my debut gig with t...
Posted by FENA on Mon, 12 May 2008 09:56:00 PST

Recording stuff

We've been having trouble with the quality of our vocal recordings recently. We decided it was probably because we had a budget $100 Presonus preamp attached to our $1000 tube mic. Then we read o...
Posted by FENA on Sun, 04 May 2008 03:02:00 PST

Bummed

I wanted to go back to England for my Dad's birthday next month. I went to expedia to book and found tickets for $680 each. Steep, but not bad. After debating for a few days about whether or not...
Posted by FENA on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:15:00 PST

Did you ever want 2 hrs of your life back?

So in the space of 2 weeks, I've managed to be more than satisfied with the Kung Fu in Forbidden Kingdom, and then absolutely disgusted with just about everything to do with 'Highlander: The Source'. ...
Posted by FENA on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:26:00 PST

Forbidden Kingdom

I am still preoccupied with Forbidden Kingdom and how much I loved it! Just thought I'd share. ...
Posted by FENA on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:44:00 PST

Forbidden Kingdom Rocks!

If you love Kung Fu, you will LOVE Forbidden Kingdom. We went to see it last night.....debut night....I'd been waiting with great anticipation for this Jackie Chan and Jet Li epic....and it was worth ...
Posted by FENA on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:44:00 PST

Mastering

So Rick has been busy mastering tracks for the Mellow Tones. He's been doing courses constantly to polish his skills and is getting really proficient. He's amazing! Rehearsals for our debut gig with t...
Posted by FENA on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:47:00 PST

Music driving me crazy

Firstly, I have to congratulate a couple of my good friend peeps.Namely, Cliff, who has a song being played on some major radio stations and some very nice interest from several folks. Not too shabby....
Posted by FENA on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:19:00 PST