Check out Eric on my latest CD. Bob Baldwin

BIOGRAPHY
Eric Essix is a multifaceted artist who over the past ten years has created music for nearly every medium imaginable but has concentrated on recording and performing his own guitar- flavored instrumental and vocal compositions for audiences throughout the country.

He was born in Birmingham, Alabama during the height of the civil rights struggle. The music of Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery, Dave Brubeck, James Brown and the Temptations poured from the family stereo. Over the airwaves, Eric discovered the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones. While in church every weekend, he received heavy doses of southern gospel and spirituals. All of these different musical genres came oozing through his fingertips when he was in receipt of his first guitar and amplifier at age ten and has maintained it's presence even today.

His earlier performances were with gospel groups at his church and later on several high school talent programs. Then in 1984 he joined his first working band, Souvenir, and began playing the Birmingham club scene. When the band broke up two years later, Eric produced his first solo album, a collection of eight original songs, and called it, "First Impressions". The album garnered substantial airplay on local and regional jazz radio which caught the attention of Nova Records, which was the hot new contemporary jazz label on the West Coast. The now defunct label folded in 1993 but not before releasing two CDs;

It wasn't long after the folding of Nova that the Berkelee School of Boston graduate signed on with the Diadem Music Group/Tribute Records, where he shared the label with Gospel Contemporaries Yolanda Adams and Ben Tankard) and completed two more national releases for them, Just Like You and Beautiful Music: Guitar. The Gospel Label was open to his Jazz roots, but Essix's background in Gospel reciprocated and created a formidable partnership.  He is currently recording under his own label S6 Jazz Records and continues to produce and distribute new music at his more than 200 annual performances across the U.S., mail order and now, the Internet. In addition to his many recordings as a solo contemporary jazz artist, Eric has composed music for a number of national and regional advertising campaigns. In 1996 he completed the score for the film Broken Ground, a compelling documentary on southern race relations that has been shown on public television and at film festivals nationwide.

 


Things you want to know about...... Eric E.!!!!

Birthday:                                                  12/29/59 Born:                                        Birmingham, Al. Now Lives:  Same Height: 6' 2"  Eye Color Brown Artist Most Admired: Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery, Pat Metheny, YellowJackets Favorite Movies: Mo Better Blues, The Godfather Trilogy Favorite Music to listen to:  Jazz Favorite Musicians: Miles Davis Favorite Book: The Bible Favorite TV Show: Seinfeld, Andy Griffith Show Favorite Food  Anything Italian Favorite Drink Sprite Favorite Veggie  Squash Least Favorite Veggie  Veggie-Beets Hobbies: Reading, Sports Favorite Song: Round Midnight/Something To Remind You Favorite Cities in America Atlanta, New York  City What are you currently listening to:  Yellow Jackets/Blue Hats Have you seen any good movies or TV shows lately? Raging Bull and Jerry Springer Favorite dessert? Toll House Cookies and Blue Bell Ice Cream Favorite color? Gray

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