Western North Carolina’s The Guide feature on Kyler
Nov 30- Dec 6 Issue
Kyler England: Live in Asheville by Paula Bolado
Indie singer-songwriter and North Carolina native, Kyler England, has been treating audiences across the nation with her passionate music. Her ballads about loss, love, recovery, missing home, and hanging on to hope and beauty are just samples of her musical expression.
With the sweet ache in her voice, lovers, grieving children, and the broken hearted can resonate with Kyler s sound. She has been singing for years with power, truth, and heart, evoking everything she has endured as an artist, a woman, and a daughter, and is able to evoke a reality missing in todays mainstream pop rock.
It s interesting to imagine this dedicated singer is a graduate of NC State with a degree in Chemistry, and was Validictorian no less. It s so I have something to fall back on, she jokingly said once. After graduation she attended Berklee College of Music, in Boston, Massachusetts. This school allowed her to meet other musicians of different sounds and genres to form a band, that synergistically combined would create a unique sound Boston audienes were drawn to. While there, she got hands-on experience with music production and performance in popular venues like House of Blues and Club Passim in Cambridge. All this prepared her for a life in NYC for five years of band gigs, solo performances, and an album, A Flower Grows in Stone, that has achieved positive critical review.
Professionally, she is a woman familiar with the music industry and music production. Continually writing her own songs, and co-writing with other writers in Nashville, as well as touring the country, she manages to energetically spread herself around and still keep it real for her friends, family, and fans. And although she is beautiful and has a sexiness about her that is so alluring, she has never succumb to the popular pressure to expose anything other than her raw, real music. Her veracity as an aritist is inspiring for all those wanting to share a piece of themselves like Kyler does.
She is the recent winner of the 2005 Unisong International Songwriting
Contest. Kyler s album A Flower Grows In Stone was recently named
Best Alternative Rock Album of 2004 by the Indie Acoustic Project and her song “Something So Beautiful” is receiving national airplay.
Kyler lives in LA now, and in between touring, it is a home base she prefers over NYC (although NYC remains her second home base when vigorously touring the East Coast). In 2004 alone, she played over 100 shows, including a feature at the Toronto Film Festival. She recently has shared the stage with Sting, Annie Lennox, Melissa Etheridge, and Pete Yorn. She also is a returning performer at the Bele Chere Festival in Asheville, where this summer, a couple hundred people stood in the rain to hear her play.
She is excited to return to Asheville, one of her favorite cities , to perform Wednesday, December 7th at The Grey Eagle. The show is special to her because she is touring to support a new record called Live Wire , a collection of live recordings and acoustic demos of all Kyler s new songs. It is in limited edition release and will only be available on her website, www.kylerengland.com, and at her shows.