Candy Lowery, aka.

iCandy Overland
2016 Vocal Performance Biography

Thank you for checking out my biography for Virtual Reality streaming performances & experience as a performer in the
Seattle, WA, USA scene/in Real Life (RL)! Feel free to ask any questions to help you determine if I would be able to
support your venue or special occasion. I am currently seeking a soulful jazz/blues/R&B cover band to work with in the
Greater Seattle area.

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SECONDLIFE.com (SL) BIOGRAPHY aka iCANDY: (live audio stream & Avatar performer)
~SL singer since 2009- using cover & original backing tracks
~Cover Genres: Top 40 & Rhythmic Pop; Classic & Alternative Rock; R&B, Blues/Soul/Funk Jazz, Piedmont Blues,
Electronic Dance Trance, & Adult Contemporary ranging from beginning of recorded blues (1920ish), 70's, 80's, 90', 2K's,
& current.
~Able to sing up to 3 hourly shifts with no breaks (i prefer 1 or 2 hour shows)
~Professional, yet, personable with virtual staff and patron avatars.
~Brings her real life performing skills to SL
~Considered Full Package Entertainer as live singer and engaging with audience
~Custom shows for private events, Formal engagements, and Gwen Stefani virtual LIVE impersonating shows, including a
back-line of synchronized dancers
~Provide professional MC (Mistress of Ceremony) service
~Fundraisers or No Charge: Veterans War Memorial, Feed A Smile, MJFox Foundation, Relay for Life,
iDONTdoSILENT, SL Anniversaries, Toys 4 Tots-having been on their CD 3 years with last year having placed my song
as Number 1 (Mister Grinch-found on my soundcloud), Funerals, Tragic RL Events and more (Just ask)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS in SL
~iCandy Overland - 2013 Avi Choice Top 20 Nominated Best Pop &Singer/Best Female Musician(from over 3, 000
nominated performers)
~Secondlife.com 11th & 12th Anniversary Celebration Live Singer
~Featured singer on three Toys4Tots cd's.
WEBSITE: www.icandyoverland.com
EMAIL: icandyoverland@gmail.com
SCHEDULE: http://tinyurl.com/zlt2p5p (limited online virtual streaming shows. Calendar reflects SL only- (Candy's RL
hours are. same as "SLT")
FACEBOOK: http://tinyurl.com/jrgookr
BEST BOOKING DAYS/HOURS FOR SL: Mondays, Tuesday, & Wednesdays 12PMSLT-8PMSLT
WEBSITE: www.icandyoverland.com
EMAIL: icandyoverland@gmail.com
SCHEDULE: http://tinyurl.com/zlt2p5p (limited online virtual streaming shows calendar only. on "SLT" in RL)
FACEBOOK: http://tinyurl.com/jrgookr
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REAL LIFE BIOGRAPHY FOR ARTIST, CANDY LOWERY
~ 2015 & 2016 Seattle Ladies Who Rock Calendar Girl www.ladieswhorock.net
TRAINING:
~Trained in Musical Theater by prodigious, Maestro David Kyle, a local Seattle icon and was considered by the industry to be one of the
best vocal instructors for contemporary singers in the world. Students of Maestro include music legends such as Bing Crosby, Bob
Hope, Mae West, John Wayne, Judy Garland, Ann and Nancy Wilson, Kenny G, Geoff Tate, Layne Staley, Terry Young. (Student from
1996-1998)
~Training, currently, with Maestro Nelson Del Pino, whose students were top 10's on American Idol. Student since 2012-Present (every
pro vocalist as one)
~Training currently, with Christina Aguilera(May 3rd-October 11th, 2016)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
~Began career 15yrs old, competing in southeast region of US.
~Vocal range 3.3 Octaves- 84% more range than average singers
~Key Signature- A2-A#5
~Vocal Character Similar to: Rihanna, Adele, Debbie Harry, Gwen Stefani, & Beyonce
~ 2015 & 2016 Seattle Ladies Who Rock Calendar Girl www.ladieswhorock.net
~Professional lead singer/performer, formerly of Pacific NW casino band iCANDi Band
~Shared the stage with well known artists such as:
*Mark Cardenas, keyboardist of Morris Day and The Time- featured roll in Prince's movie, Purple Rain (1998)
*Sonny Buyers- songwriter for Luther Vandross (1998-2000
*Metal Church front man, Ronny Munroe (2006)
*American Idol Top 10 contestant, Sanjaya Malakar (2015)
~Opened for Big Bad Voodoo Daddy & Brian Setzer Orchestra as ft. singer- John Holtes Radio Rhythm Orchestra
~Professional Voice Over Talent- VR Gaming character, Radio/TV Promo
~Provide professional MC (Mistress of Ceremony) service
Candy has been coined "Seattle's Sensually Soulful Singer", "a caring artist", "Girl Next Door." Candy attributes her natural ability to sing
R&B by her being a native of South Carolina- the region of Piedmont Blues, and a Gullah-speaking culture (indigenous only in the
Lowcountry). Her family was her first musical influence.
Candy shares,"It was common after Sunday dinner, retiring to the front porch, where up to twenty-plus family members, such as, her
parents, grandparents, uncles/aunts(even Great & Great-Great), and cousins, would play spoons or harmonica, dancing the blues shuffle
while listening to someone singing a spiritual, a James Brown tune(born in her hometown, from where his dancing style originated), or
everyone joining in on singing and dancing to "Polk Salad Annie." Her first fan was her Grand Daddy. This means so much as Candy was
brutally tortured by her fathers incest, beatings, threats of death, & degradation for 13 years of her childhood. She had no voice because it
frightened her to have one. Just before her Grand Daddy passed away, he asked her to sing him a song. Filled with shyness, 10 year old
Candy could not pass up singing for him and she sang her most authentic, soulful manner with enormous pride as she had been asked by
the Patriarch, the only family member with the gifted knowledge of playing instruments. It's not a surprise audiences in the Pacific
Northwest are intrigued and entranced by her "foreign" sound of a southern dialect that seems natural and effortless. One fan explains,
"It's like she is possessed by her haunted past and the healing of a southern witch doctor, yet, can sing any style she wants to....but still
haunting when she improvises or singing jazz or blues. I will be her number one fan for life!" Dianne C.
Candy shows extreme technical skill, spot on vocals, while being professional and personable-a very approachable artist. A sure winner
for your team. An intuitive singer (emotional and relatable). When not on sl, or working on music, Candy is devoted to her husband
(Michael), two son's (Trais & Taran), and her new shelter baby, Lady Evy. She is active in advocating for victim's of violence by
empowering them to speak their truth through artistic expression through her founding the nonprofit, iDONTdoSILENT. She loves to
cook fine cuisine & southern soul food. Very sentimental and loving, Candy deeply inhales every essence of joy she can have and spends
lots of time making new ones and reflecting on it-never forgetting were she came from.
WEBSITE: http://www.icandyoverland.com/
EMAIL: icandyoverland@gmail.com
Cell/Text: 253-293-5058
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/iCandyOverland
SEATTLE BOOKING: https://www.gigsalad.com/icandy_overland_seattle
Thank you for reading this amazing singer's biography, because It is not just that....It's her life! And music has always been a part of her
journey. Her personal motto's, "Pretty Is As Pretty Does" and "Making Music My Muse" along with "I never meet a stranger", sums up
her true self and her life's path!