Alex Dezen

Alex Dezen is a guitar player solo artist and the lead singer and songwriter for the now defunct American rock and roll band The Damnwells He holds an MFA degree in English from The University of Iowas Iowa Writers Workshop where he was a Jeffrey G and Victoria J Edwards Fellow As a songwriter he has written and released songs for artists such as Justin Bieber Robin Thicke Matt Hires Court Yard Hounds The Veronicas and others He has also written for and worked with a number of additional artist such as The Dixie Chicks Dave Grohl Gary Louris of The Jayhawks Sara Bareilles Christina Perri Genevieve Schatz of Company of Thieves Simple Plan Jesse Joy Bun E Carlos and many others He is currently signed to Warner Chappell Music Publishing A series of 4 solo EPs known as The Bedhead EPs were released throughout 2014 The first one titled 14 was released on January 21 2014 The second titled 24 was released on April 22 2014 and was accompanied by a video which premiered on the website for American Songwriter magazine The 3rd EP titled 34 was released on July 22 2014 The final EP in the series 44 was released on December 30 2014 In 2015 he collaborated with the American dance company Pilobolus composing the music for the dance piece Wednesday Morning 1145 2015 which premiered at The American Dance Festival in Durham NC on June 15 2015 The Damnwells eponymous fifth studio album featuring the original four members was released on April 14 2015 On November 3 2015 Dezen announced a PledgeMusic project of songs written in early 2015 to be released as his first solo album The project reached its crowdfunding goal in one week The selftitled album was released by Rock Ridge Music on February 12 2016 followed by a 9hour free internet concert where Dezen performed acoustic versions of every song he has ever released over his 15year career either with The Damnwells or as a solo artist including a live fullband performance of the selftitled solo album live at the High Watt in Nashville TN The footage is still available online to view Dezens YouTube channel On August 23 2016 Dezen announced another Pledge Music campaign for his second solo album releasing the song and video for Randolph Tonight exclusively to Pledgers In August 2017 Dezen released the first recording by his new band Broken Baby a rock group featuring his longtime partner and collaborator Amber Marie Bollinger on lead vocals Source Article Alex Dezen from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30