Spent four years in Boston, MA at Berklee College of Music
where I received my degree in Contemporary Writing and Production as a
vocal principal. While there I met and befriended a bunch of insanely
talented and inspiring people who have helped me in finding and
continuing the musical journey I'm currently on. I will forever hold
these people dear to my heart. In my senior year of
college, I ran The Berklee Entrepreneur Action Team. Inspired by a
performance my band had participated in at Penn State's THON, I founded
and directed an 8-hour dance marathon dubbed "Keeping the HeartB.E.A.T."
The event and our team brought over 600 people to the House of Blues
Boston and generated over 12,000 dollars, which was donated towards
pediatric care and research at the Jimmy Fund.I released my debut album, Good People,
a 12 song LP, I co-produced with my band-mate and dear friend, Johnny
Simon Jr, on January 7th, 2011 independently. There are a lot of really
special people who both played and worked on the album with me and I'm
pretty sure I won't experience making another album quite like that one.I've seen about 55% of the country touring and playing music, both with
my band and bands I've played in. Between traveling from show to show
and taking pictures on my iphone of sunsets and sunrises and yelping the
best local breakfast spots, I've been fortunate to meet and/or share
the stage with other soul/funk acts like, Charles Neville, Eli
'Paperboy' Reed, Jesse Dee, The Funky Meters and Nigel Hall, in places
like The Whisky a Go-Go, World Cafe Live, Brooklyn Bowl, Hotel Cafe, and
Bear Creek Music Festival.I hope to see the rest of the country and
travel overseas, playing sweet soul tunes and traveling with people I
love for a long time. NICKY EGAN
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