SUMMER PIERRE
Occupation: Musician & Artist Website: Summer Pierre Biography: Summer Pierre is a California-born artist who lives in Brooklyn, NY. As a musician she has toured extensively both the east and west coasts, and released her CD Far From Here from TPS Media. She creates an annual Great Gals Calendar, celebrating great women every day, and is currently at work on a series of corresponding cards. What do you do and how did you start? How old were you when you realized you wanted to do what you’re currently doing and how old were you when you actually began. I am a musician, cartoonist, painter, and a writer. My dad likes to say that I was drawing as soon as I could hold a pen. I don’t remember ever not being able to draw or wanting to draw. When I was...
TAMMY RAYBOULD
Occupation: Singer & Songwriter Website: Tammy Raybould Biography: Tammy has shared the stage with Sarah McLachlan during Lilith Fair 1998, 54-40, Sloan, performed at the Canadian Association of Broadcastersâ “Rock The Hill” event along side Wide Mouth Mason, Jim Cuddy, et al; played the mainstage at Parliament Hillâs Canada Day celebrations; sang at the 1999 Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto; and headlined legendary clubs such as Torontoâs El Mocambo, Leeâs Palace, and The Bitter End in New York City. Tammy was asked to showcase her latest songwriting talents three separate times during 2001 Canadian Music Week, garnering her a huge response from the music industry and her fans. She was also nominated for Best New...
MARTINE LOCKE
Occupation: Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist Website: Martine Locke Biography: Martine Locke has literally emerged from the middle of nowhere. Born in a caravan park in the middle of Australia during a notoriously hot Australia summer, her parents who were ‘on the run’ pulled her last name from a phone book. “I think that my first journey into this world and the circumstances surrounding that have definitely borne in me an independence, a strength… and anyway…it’s one heck of a good story” Martine tells us. In 1996 she formed the award winning duo, The Velvet Janes. They recorded 4 CDs, hit the Australian music charts, have been heard on radios and played in venues across the world and opened for artists such as Ani DiFranco...
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