Music
The best kept secret in music
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Discography
Still working on that hot first release.
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Feeling a bit camera shy
Bio
Theres something instantly comforting about the name, once you meet the woman. It could be the name of a fighter, if you didnt know. Instead, its the name of a singer, a fighter only in the sense that she cares about the sort of world we live in, and the sort of music she brings to people.
The music. Well, the name doesnt fit the music. This is, after all, music that rarely punches. It sneaks up and captures your imagination and your emotions and your heart. Somehow, its not the music you expected.
Rocky Gaines comes from Texas, a big place, and full of many different cultures. As one songwriter put, Texas is more than a state of mind. It is also a place where you sing country if youre country, or the blues if youre black.
Well, this woman is black. And shes country, blues, and folk, too. Shes from a small town outside of San Antonio. But her music is something else warm, acoustic, intuitive rich songs.
It is music thats been forged by experience and by time and by travel. Rockys the daughter of an Air Force family, and shes lived in Cape Cod and Hawaii. She sang her way through university and has electrified clubs in Washington D.C. and back home in Texas, where shes made her way through most cities, towns and festivals.
She now lives in California, but for some time made Canada her home. If Toronto offered a colder climate, it also offered a degree of seclusion that allowed her to devote her life to music. Her downtown apartment, high above the city, became a greenhouse that helped her music flourish and grow, and took her to performance in clubs, Sunday bars, coffee houses and even to Germany, where a club tour gave her the first chance to take her music outside North America.
Along the way, Rocky Gaines adds more and more of her own songs to her list and they make compelling music that helps people relate to themselves as well as to the woman on stage.
Rockys a singer. A songwriter. Someone who cares about her music.
And for the people who hear her, shes a friend.
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