N.C. State alumnus Kyler England may have moved to Los Angeles since graduating from N.C. State, but the singer’s current tour is bringing her back to the area that she can call home.
England will perform at the The Pour House Music Hall in Raleigh on Feb. 21. Tickets are available online for $8 or can purchased at the door for $10.
England got her start while attending college at N.C. State by performing her songs at a monthly open mic at CoffeeShack.
“I played a few gigs off campus every semester but was also busy juggling studies towards two degrees: my self-designed course in World Music/Philosophy/Religion and of all things, Chemistry,” England writes on her Web site. “After a summer internship in the field of chemistry where I felt like a total black sheep, I returned home feeling lost and to top things off got broken up with. Nothing like getting dumped to make you completely re-evaluate your life, and if you’re a songwriter, to write a whole new batch of broken hearted songs. That was the turning point where I admitted to myself what I had known all along, that I wanted to be a musician.”
After graduating, England moved to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music.
“My three semesters at Berklee were an inspiring whirlwind but I was antsy to get out of the classroom and on the road. I ended up joining the ranks of Berklee’s acclaimed drop-outs, but not before forging a musical friendship with producer-engineer-mixer-pianist-bassist-synth-programmer-guitarist-in-a-pinch-mad-scientist, Richard Oliver Furch of Berlin, Germany.”
England is now touring in support of her album Simple Machine, released in November 2008.
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