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Patrice Pike
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award winning singer songwriter rocker with a punk edge, Patrice
Pike has toured all over the United States and Western Europe
and just plain impressed those who've seen, heard and watched
the talented woman.
Many people have come to know Patrice Pike from her years as
lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the popular Austin band
Sister Seven. From Sister Seven's jam-band beginnings to their
Billboard-charting radio singles, they headlined clubs and
supported massive shed tours. During those years Patrice Pike
performed onstage with the likes of Dave Matthews, Sarah
McLachlan, and Natalie Merchant.
In the Chicago Free Press, Jen Earls writes, "Pike grew up a
musical child, influenced early by [artists] such as Joni
Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, and Elton John, before getting into
Motown." "I listened to Stevie Wonder every day," Pike says. She
also played violin, French horn, and sang. Earls continues, "She
traded her textbooks for smoky bars." "The school of Hard
Knocks, that's it," Pike says. "The stuff I've learned [since I
was 15] I wouldn't trade it for any piece of paper."
With Sister Seven, Patrice spent the majority of her time making
records and touring. After the band changed their name from
Little Sister due to a possible battle over the name trademark,
the band was signed to Arista Records on a new but short lived
moniker Arista Austin under Nashville Label Hero Tim DuBois.
During the next five years the band played with many
international bands and solo artists as well as charting once in
the Billboard top ten and again in the top twenty later just
before leaving Arista. Their top ten Single co-written by
Patrice along with Wayne Sutton and Stephen Barron led them to
Arista proper under Clive Davis in New York.
The band made their last studio album "Wrestling Over Tiny
Matters" which contained the top twenty Billboard hit written by
Wayne Sutton, "Only Thing That's Real" and was co-produced by
John Shanks. Following Clive Davis' departure from Arista,
Patrice along with members of Sister Seven decided to disband in
2000. With a lot of music in the wings and much inspiration,
Patrice has gone on to define her creativity as a solo artist.
She recorded her first full length independent album "Fencing
Under Fire" with the help of co-producer/guitarist Wayne Sutton
(band mate from Sister Seven), Jim Watt's who worked on the
Emmylou Harris album Red Dirt Girl as assistant to Malcolm Burn,
and Ethan Allan who produced albums for Better Than Ezra, mixed
Throwing Muses, and was Daniel Lanois' assistant for many years.
Patrice and Wayne released this album on their own new indie
label ZAINWAYNE RECORDS in 2002. They paid to promote the album
to AAA radio formats with money from sales and were in the top
ten most added for the first several weeks, being the only
totally independent album with no major label or major indie
ties on the chart along side Sonny Landreth, Dar Williams, Nick
Cave and the Bad Seeds and David Grey, etc.
"I had a major shift after my experience in the last 10 years in
the music business and in the world. The artists who have always
inspired me have been outspoken in life as well as in their
creative medium and I am committed to continue that tradition. I
LOVE making music and dedicating my life to public service at
the same time. I'm so grateful to be able to sustain my life via
this path. I plan to continue making records, performing live,
traveling the world and empowering others to create what they
want to out of the world we are living in."
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