Music Style Alternative rock, modern rock, adult contemporary

Musical Influences Sheryl Crow, Melissa Etheridge, Fiona Apple, Sarah McLachlan, Jewel

Artist History Despite speaking four languages, when asked to describe her music, 22-year-old, Alex Bach is at a loss for words. She says simply, It is pop with an attitude. After hearing her music, though, you can understand why it is so hard to define. Labeling it as pop, belies the insightful, cutting lyrics that are so characteristic of her songwriting. It underestimates her graceful melodies that will transcend the ever-changing trends of the music industry. Nor does it do justice to rhythms that have been undeniably influenced by her international background. Alex Bach comes by her international flair quite naturally, in fact, genetically. Her father is from French Tunisia and her mother is American. Alex was born in France, raised there and then later in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. She left there for Germany, and now resides in the U.S. Bach grew up speaking French and Arabic, and in quick succession, picked up English, German and then Spanish. While Alex may be heard singing in any language, her emotional and evocative songs speak of life in its most personal and honest form. "I love to write lyrics that shake people up and force them to re-examine their lives. The ability to write music and sing it in a way that touches people is an awesome power. If I can get just one person to take an honest look at themselves and realize that they are not where they intended to be, then I will feel like I have used my powers of music wisely."

Group Members Alex Bach - lead vocals, lead and rhythm guitar Mike Lyons - lead guitar Kent Demonbreun - Bass guitar, vocals Tim Moss - Drums

Albums Alex Bach - Miles to Go

Press Reviews Female Rocker, Alex Bach to Tour with the US Armed Forces West Palm Beach, FL - September 21st, 2003 — By this time next month, Alex Bach should be somewhere in the Middle East, giving our boys in uniform a little taste of home in the form of good old American Rock N’ Roll. Alex and her band have been selected by the Pentagon’s Armed Forces Entertainment Committee to put on five weeks of live performances for the U.S. Military forces and their families stationed overseas with a priority to remote and isolated locations, ships at sea, and contingency operations. Fluently speaking four languages, Alex has been called, “the thinking person’s rock star”. It’s no stretch to determine why this independently outspoken singer/songwriter was singled out by the Pentagon for lifting the spirits and morale of America’s troops overseas. Not only a talented musician, Ms. Bach actually spent three years in high school ROTC and is very pleased to be allowed to contribute her talent to her country. Historically, few events have left a more lasting emotional impression on soldiers, sailors, aviators, Marines, and their families than these celebrity tours. The USO and AFE have brought top quality entertainment to millions of U.S. military personnel throughout the world since 1941. Alex Bach joins recent entertainers including Jennifer Lopez, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Andy Garcia, Jay Leno, Joan Jett, Mariah Carey, Johnny Gill, Drew Carey, Jessica Simpson, Salma Hayek, Terry Bradshaw, Christie Brinkley, Veronica Webb, Reba McEntire and Wayne Newton. For more information on Alex Bach: WWW.ALEXBACH.COM Off to war zone, a savvy rocker with a sexy image Howard Goodman March 2, 2003 It's midnight in a South Beach club called Macarena and men and women are dancing over by the bar, intimates who have known each other maybe for minutes. On stage, an attractive young woman with high-gloss lips and a maroon guitar is singing a raw song of love-gone-wrong while a three-man band rocks out behind her. "Can't you see I'm not like all the others?" pleads Alex Bach with practiced anguish. No, she isn't. As many of her contemporaries are protesting the looming war with Iraq, this 23-year-old singer-songwriter is getting ready to travel with her band to the Middle East to entertain American troops. "This is the way I can serve my country," Bach said before the Thursday night show, "to keep people from being homesick by bringing them some hint of home -- I see that as a tremendous service." Patriotism takes many forms. It appears here in an aspiring, marketing-savvy rock 'n' roller from Palm Beach County who grew up in France, Germany and Abu Dhabi before high school in Delray Beach. She's got a sexy image, a brainy attitude, a supple voice and a self-confidence that's almost eerie. She is fluent in four languages. She's developed a following via the Internet that extends to Russia, New Zealand and South Korea. "You are such a hottie!" one fan writes on her message board at a site for music downloads. "And your music is really good too!" She and her mates -- Hector Rios on guitar, Thor Jeppesen on bass, Scott Blasko on drums, and her manager, Cary Reichbach -- are awaiting word from the Pentagon's Armed Forces Entertainment Committee on when they'll be going to Greenland, Europe and the Persian Gulf. They'll tour for up to six weeks. Like Jane Russell in World War II and Angie Dickinson in Vietnam, Bach will hug soldiers for the cameras and autograph the pictures. She'll pose with her guitar on tanks. "I'm happy to do it, too," she says. She expects to be going to battle zones. To be choppered onto carriers. Is she scared? Nah. Though you'd never guess it from the come-hither poses on www.alexbach.com, her major activity in four years at Atlantic High School was Army ROTC. As manager Reichbach tells it, she was a classic outsider: a transplanted teen who barely spoke English and whose penetrating I.Q. scared off boys from asking her for dates; a discipline problem at home. Bach says she got into ROTC for the challenge. "My first year of high school, I realized I couldn't do a push-up to save my life. And I couldn't take an order to save my life, either," she said. "So I knew I had to do it because I hate having limitations placed upon me, or even placed upon myself." She wore camouflage and combat boots four days a week. The training "taught me confidence." She became so ardent a cadet that she intended to apply to the military academies, changing her mind when an adviser warned that an armed forces career would be too confining for her creativity. So she went to FSU to study international business, intending to be a lawyer. As a sideline, she began singing with a jazz combo. After a love affair went sour, she wrote a bitter poem about it and, when boredom struck on a long car ride with no radio, she made up a melody. Friends encouraged her to write more, so she learned guitar and started composing songs. Her music isn't political, but she wrote a lament for the victims of 9/11 that's won acclaim. Because of that attack, she says, war with Iraq may be necessary. "America has suffered at the hands of a few extremist Arabs, and not all Arabs think like they do," she says, "but if they are aided and abetted by these other nations, then we need to stand up and defend ourselves." Her mother was born in the U.S. Her father is a French Tunisian who managed hotels for an international chain. She spoke Arabic as a child. Put all the elements together, and she's as American as an electric guitar. Howard Goodman's column is published Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. He can be reached at hgoodman@sun-sentinel.com or 561-243-6638. Copyright � 2003, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Additional Info Alex's CD, is also available at amazon.com, CD Baby, CD Street, CD Value, Borders.com, Tower Records.com, Aware Records.com, and of course, Alex Bach.com

Location West Palm Beach, FL - USA

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