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Laura and Eddie Cavazos have been husband and wife since 1983 and have been a songwritng team throughout their marriage. Together, they have written Christmas cantatas, Children's musicals, jingles and numerous Contemporary Christian songs. Their songs have been recorded by many independent Christian artists and have received airplay both on radio and television. Laura and Eddie reside in San Antonio, Texas with their four children, ages 1year to 20 years! Eddie has been an elementary music teacher for 20 years and has been a Music Minister at Lackland Air Force Base for 30 years. Laura is an Early Childhood Reading specialist and she received her Bachelors degree in Psychology from UTSA. Laura and Eddie continue to compose music and they are proud to present, "Sing to the Lord", a 13 song collection of Contemporary Christian music performed by various artists which was released in December 2004. .
Born Ruth Alyce Jones in 1972, Alyce Metallo was raised in Washington, DC and began studying piano composing songs as a child. Now a classically trained pianist and genre-bursting songwriter with an incredible voice, Alyce Metallo is an amazing teacher and performer. Stevie Wonder had just one word to say about her presence on stage-- "energy". She has performed before 20,000 people at the MCI Center in Washington, DC, and has sung at the Pentagon and for the last three Presidents of the United States. Maintaining a rigerous performing schedule Alyce has shared the stage with Dave Matthews, Al Green, John Mellencamp, B.B. King, Lenny Kravitz and Gloria Estefan. More recently, Alyce was selected by renowned director and choreographer Debbie Allen to perform in Carmen Jones, Hammerstein’s adaptation of Bizet’s Carmen. She now manages her own company called itzahitmusic™ and performs with the award-winning improv troupe NowThis! in Washington, DC.
Dave Pura is based Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and has been singing writing songs for over 7 years. In 1995 he helped form the rock group "Wheatmonkeys" and has been writing, recording, and touring across Canada ever since. Dave also enjoys writing songs in a country/pop style. His songwriting follows a mainstream target audience with catchy, melodic hooks and memorable lyrics. He hopes to spread his music across North America through performance, publishers, jingles, television shows, movies, and the radio.
Gene Carrington is a long time songwriter who seeks honesty and originality in all his lyrics and tries to make them believable. He draws from life experiences, his observations of people, and from living life. Some of his greatest musical influences are Hank Williams, Hank Cochran, Kris Kristofferson, and Willie Nelson. Gene is not only a songwriter but also a poet and cattle rancher. Louie Cate is a songwriter from Virginia who met Gene through another songwriting contest where they both were winners
but their prizes got mixed up and sent to the wrong recipient. Gene and Louie were left to contact each other
to exchange prizes and ten years later they are still co-writing. What is really amazing is that Gene and Louie have never
met!
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