What's REALLY Going ON Volume 1, June 2014 Issue #6 | Page 52

WRGO SPECIAL INTEREST ARTICLES
Nicole and Scotty: “Unchartered Waters”
My name is Nicole and I am a 17 year old singer/songwriter and lead vocalist in a musical duo between my 12 year
old brother Scotty and me. Our band name is, "Nicole & Scotty: Unchartered Waters".
Scotty is truly a young musical prodigy and plays a total
of six instruments which include electric guitar, acoustic
guitar, dobro guitar, pedal steel guitar, mandolin and
piano/keyboard. He writes and composes music for a
total of eight instruments, adding bass guitar and drums.

Nicole
in the
studio

Together we create original compositions; I flow in the melodies
and lyrics. We also cover a wide variety of music and artists of all
genres, but our favorites are Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley, who are our biggest inspirations and our most covered artists.
Our own personal genre and what we are most comfortable in currently is something between Americana and Folk Rock music, but we sometimes venture beyond and try out classic or
even soft rock sounds. Scotty and I have
been working dedicatedly and lovingly for
Scotty in
month on our upcoming debut E.P., "Nicole
the
& Scotty: Unchartered Waters". It can be
studio
purchased on the Web site. Scotty and I enjoy the whole process of bringing our CD
with our music immensely, we wrote for it and produced it
ourselves. It's like this great big
for us, the
journey we have always wanted to take and we love it.

We love creating music above all else. It's our very meaning in life, our true purpose and reason. When we
write together, everything is at peace, everything flows, there is
love radiating, powerful.
Nicole, Scotty and
their drummer,
Paloma, performing
at a local show

We are very close friends as siblings, but in those moments when we "step into the flow" as Michael would say,
we are closer than ever, our love for each other the
strongest. It's truly an incredible God sent gift. Scotty

been playing guitar for only two and a half years, but has excelled to the point of surpassing college level in music theory and
plays over 500 songs by memory. He first took interest in arts and
music when he was 10 when our mom enrolled him in group guitar
lessons in our home school program. He advanced so quickly
through the class that the instructor moved him from the beginners to the most advanced in less than six month.
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