Artist description Once up on a time, in a flat flat land (Nebraska), not far enough away, a young girl was born to a hippy chick and red neck.  While the Coors Light, cow tipping, peace marching romance didn't last for long, the young girl grew up on dreams of guitars, music, and traveling to far off, not so flat lands. Besides that one mullet hair cut, Shyle, a chick with a guitar, left Nebraska reasonably unscathed at the age of 10, and moved a small town in Southern California known as Ojai (said best with a valley girl accent, "oh-HI!"). By 15, Shyle had placed her dreams of becoming a singer on the backburner and began to cultivate her dreams of the silver screen. Shyle took acting lessons for approximately 4 years and studied under Kim Maxwell- Brown.  This off the cuff, run with your instincts training that she learned during this time is still apparent to this day in Shyle's musical performances. After spending four years in the theater , Shyle once again realized that her heart was bound to singing and music making.  What instruments has she played?  Well, besides being an expert at the nose flute, Shyle played the recorder (age 10), the clarinet (age 11), the piano (age 12-16), and yes, she was a band geek, but is not able to boast of ever going to band camp.  What instrument did she play in marching band?  Xylophone, a little more cumbersome than a flute.  At 17 Shyle began to teach herself to play guitar.  Her mother taught her little hippy chick daughter her first four chords, and yes, they were from a Peter, Paul and Mary tune.  And however cliché it may be, on that first night she learned those chords, she played to her fingers bled (sheesh- how artistically tragic can you get),  By 18 Shyle was writing her own music and by 19 she began to perform at open mics around Southern California.  The first of which has become somewhat of a Ventura legend, the Teltron Cafe in Ventura, CA (hosted by Dennis Daniels). Shyle's first album was recorded the summer of 2000 with Brian Parra of Blackbird Music in the beautiful town of Oxnard, CA.  Currently, Shyle lives in Portland, OR where she is plays on their burgeoning music scene.  Shyle is one of the few independent artists that can boast that she has played all the way from Nebraska to Bangkok (yes that's Thailand, no joke).  She is working on her second album, Love and the Lack thereof, which she plans to have recorded by June 2003.

Albums Naked on a Tuesday night

Location Portland, OR - USA

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