Patrice Pike
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Patrice Pike is an American
singer, songwriter, and musician. She's been a professional musician and songwriter since she was sixteen. Billboard magazine proclaimed her "one of the finest up and coming contemporary rock singers in America".
Pike is known to many as the front woman for the seminal Austin jam band Sister Seven which she co-founded soon after attending of The High School for the performing and visual arts at Booker T. Washington in Dallas Texas. Their first major label album was an anomaly as it was a live recording which at that time was unusual in the music industry for a new breaking band on a major label. Patrice wrote and sang Sister Seven’s top 10 Billboard hit “Know What You Mean’. She was the USA Songwriting Competition Grand Prize Winner overall for the song “My Three Wishes”, co-written with her Sister Seven band members. In this contest she also garnered top prize for Pop category for “Nobody Knows” written with songwriter/producer John Shanks. Just after the making of their release "Wrestling Over Tiny Matters", Arista records executive staff imploded. The band lost its label affiliation in the much publicized Arista shakeup that culminated in the firing of music industry legend Clive Davis. Just after departing the label, they recorded Sister 7 Live and released a DVD "Three Times Live" recorded in three legendary venues including Antones, Steamboat and La Zona Rosa.
Over the past decade, she has independently released several studio releases, including Flat 13 EP, Fencing Under Fire, and Unraveling and has released two live records "Live AT The Brushwood Lounge Volume 1" with Wayne Sutton and recently "Live and Then Some! Brushwood Volume 2". She has toured as a solo artist since Sister 7 stopped touring both in the U.S. and overseas. She has co-created numerous records and musical groups, including her band the Black Box Rebellion and toured all over the United States and Western Europe. Patrice has been recently inducted into the Austin/Texas Music Hall of Fame when she also won Musician of the Year, Best Female Vocalist, and Song of the year in Austin for her song Beautiful Thing, which she debuted on the CBS primetime Television series “Rockstar”. She has performed in tours and festivals including Lilith Fair and HORDE tour to music festival institutions like Austin City Limit’s, High Sierra, Strawberry, and Kerrville festivals. Patrice has been known to participate regularly in social and environmental activism and she is also the co-founder and acting executive director of the Grace Foundation of Texas, an organization that provides services for young adult survivors of homelessness. Patrice's new release "the Calling" will come out in 2012.
, where her stepfather was a musician playing in local clubs. Her introduction to music was both ukelele and violin which she received as a child. When she was 15, she began attending the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts
(aka the 'Arts Magnet'). Former attendees of the school include Edie Brickell
, Norah Jones
and Zac Baird
; among Patrice's classmates was Roy Hargrove
.
After graduating from Booker T. Washington, Pike attended the University of North Texas. She left the university and started the band Little Sister in 1991 with band co-founder Wayne Sutton.
,a suburb of Dallas, where the two formed a band and began writing and rehearsing. Originally called 'Little Sister', the band began playing in Dallas on stages such as Club Dada, but soon relocated to the thriving musical scene of Austin. They quickly moved from playing the Black Cat as an opening band for local favorites Soul Hat into a headlining role of their own, and remained popular in Austin for many years. The band was invited to tour on the H.O.R.D.E. tour with Blues Traveler, Dave Matthews Band, and Allman Brothers Band and recorded their first major label record Free Love And Nickel Beer on EMI/SBK records just prior to the tour.
Due to naming conflicts over the name 'Little Sister' particularly by a band in Boston and in the midst of being signed by Arista Records, the band name was changed to Sister 7.
Patrice Pike is an American
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singer, songwriter, and musician. She's been a professional musician and songwriter since she was sixteen. Billboard magazine proclaimed her "one of the finest up and coming contemporary rock singers in America".
Pike is known to many as the front woman for the seminal Austin jam band Sister Seven which she co-founded soon after attending of The High School for the performing and visual arts at Booker T. Washington in Dallas Texas. Their first major label album was an anomaly as it was a live recording which at that time was unusual in the music industry for a new breaking band on a major label. Patrice wrote and sang Sister Seven’s top 10 Billboard hit “Know What You Mean’. She was the USA Songwriting Competition Grand Prize Winner overall for the song “My Three Wishes”, co-written with her Sister Seven band members. In this contest she also garnered top prize for Pop category for “Nobody Knows” written with songwriter/producer John Shanks. Just after the making of their release "Wrestling Over Tiny Matters", Arista records executive staff imploded. The band lost its label affiliation in the much publicized Arista shakeup that culminated in the firing of music industry legend Clive Davis. Just after departing the label, they recorded Sister 7 Live and released a DVD "Three Times Live" recorded in three legendary venues including Antones, Steamboat and La Zona Rosa.
Over the past decade, she has independently released several studio releases, including Flat 13 EP, Fencing Under Fire, and Unraveling and has released two live records "Live AT The Brushwood Lounge Volume 1" with Wayne Sutton and recently "Live and Then Some! Brushwood Volume 2". She has toured as a solo artist since Sister 7 stopped touring both in the U.S. and overseas. She has co-created numerous records and musical groups, including her band the Black Box Rebellion and toured all over the United States and Western Europe. Patrice has been recently inducted into the Austin/Texas Music Hall of Fame when she also won Musician of the Year, Best Female Vocalist, and Song of the year in Austin for her song Beautiful Thing, which she debuted on the CBS primetime Television series “Rockstar”. She has performed in tours and festivals including Lilith Fair and HORDE tour to music festival institutions like Austin City Limit’s, High Sierra, Strawberry, and Kerrville festivals. Patrice has been known to participate regularly in social and environmental activism and she is also the co-founder and acting executive director of the Grace Foundation of Texas, an organization that provides services for young adult survivors of homelessness. Patrice's new release "the Calling" will come out in 2012.
Early life
Patrice grew up in Dallas, TexasDallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
, where her stepfather was a musician playing in local clubs. Her introduction to music was both ukelele and violin which she received as a child. When she was 15, she began attending the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts
Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts
Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts is a public secondary school located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas . Booker T. Washington High School enrolls students in grades 9-12 and is the Dallas Independent School District's arts magnet school...
(aka the 'Arts Magnet'). Former attendees of the school include Edie Brickell
Edie Brickell
Edie Arlisa Brickell is an American singer-songwriter best known for 1988's Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars, the debut album by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, which went #4 on the US Albums Chart.-Life and career:...
, Norah Jones
Norah Jones
Norah Jones is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actress.In 2002, she launched her solo music career with the release of the commercially successful and critically acclaimed album Come Away With Me, which was certified a diamond album in 2002, selling over 20 million copies...
and Zac Baird
Zac Baird
Zachary Baird, born February 16, 1971 in Orange County, California, is a keyboardist and pianist, currently collaborating with the band Korn. He is also noted for using the Moog synthesizer. as well as the Ondes Martenot.-Early life:...
; among Patrice's classmates was Roy Hargrove
Roy Hargrove
Roy Anthony Hargrove is an American jazz trumpeter. He won worldwide notice after winning two Grammy Awards for differing types of music, in 1997, and in 2002...
.
After graduating from Booker T. Washington, Pike attended the University of North Texas. She left the university and started the band Little Sister in 1991 with band co-founder Wayne Sutton.
Little Sister
Pike soon met her future guitarist and musical partner Wayne Sutton at a street festival in Dallas. After a brief stint in Austin, Sutton returned to Plano, TexasPlano, Texas
Plano is a city in the state of Texas, located mostly within Collin County. The city's population was 259,841 at the 2010 census, making it the ninth-largest city in Texas and the 71st most populous city in the United States. Plano is located within the metropolitan area commonly referred to as...
,a suburb of Dallas, where the two formed a band and began writing and rehearsing. Originally called 'Little Sister', the band began playing in Dallas on stages such as Club Dada, but soon relocated to the thriving musical scene of Austin. They quickly moved from playing the Black Cat as an opening band for local favorites Soul Hat into a headlining role of their own, and remained popular in Austin for many years. The band was invited to tour on the H.O.R.D.E. tour with Blues Traveler, Dave Matthews Band, and Allman Brothers Band and recorded their first major label record Free Love And Nickel Beer on EMI/SBK records just prior to the tour.
Due to naming conflicts over the name 'Little Sister' particularly by a band in Boston and in the midst of being signed by Arista Records, the band name was changed to Sister 7.