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Indiana Gregg
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PR Contacts
For promotional information please contact Zest PR on
0207 734 0206 or via email:
Jen Bahaijoub
jem@zestpr.com
Sarah Gartside
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Gallery
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xx Indiana Gregg
Videos
BBC radio Scotland video interview & session
May 9, 2007
I Could Come Play a Gig At Your House for you And your Friends
April 27, 2007
I Could Come Play a Gig At Your House for you And your Friends....it's free...so, watch this and send me an email.....indianagregg@googlemail.comI'll Come Play a Gig At Your House for you And your Fri...
Bebo and UK Gigs TV feature Indiana & Josh Groban
April 25, 2007
Watch More Bebo Tv Uploaded by uktheatre.bebo.com
Indiana's journey
I was born in the rural Midwestern town of Terre Haute, famous simply for being the 'cross-roads of America', where highways 40 and 41 intersect running from east and west, north and south across the United States. My mother taught dance and art and my father worked in the aluminium industry. We were avid 'church goers' and the gospel influences are probably apparent in some of my music today.
When I started primary school I had a very strong speech impediment. I was speaking out of the side of my mouth, like Looney Tune's 'Sylvester the Cat', and had a stammer that made communicating in class more or less impossible. This, combined with the fact I had to wear corrective shoes and leg braces, made me similar to a female version of the young 'Forest Gump'.
After being introduced to a speech therapist I spent a couple of hours a week learning to speak through various methods of communication, including singing. My speech teacher asked me to go home and write poems that I would then have to sing. This was the birthing place of songwriting for me.
During this period in my life my grandfather had a stroke and my father had a car accident. My mother had a lot on her plate keeping an eye on my three brothers, my grandfather and my dad. I therefore kept busy by teaching myself to play my grandmother's old upright piano by ear and pretending to be a singer.
Before I knew what hit me I was getting roles in school plays and church musicals and I became known as 'the little girl who sings'. Children in the playground would ask me to sing radio hits for them. Ironically, the same kids that had been throwing rocks and making fun of my lisp just years earlier!
By the time I reached secondary school I had picked up a few other instruments. I learned the trumpet and flute and had a go at the organ and keyboards. This period of my life was what I call my 'music tinkering' period. I was saving my lunch money for school every day to buy the new 45' single of the week and spent my church money betting on what would be the top three hits of the week in the charts. At the time, big artists like Aretha Franklin, Lionel Richie, Don Henley, Phil Collins, Cindy Lauper, Elton John, Prince, later U2 and eventually Nirvana really made a huge impact on me.
Between the ages of 12 and 16 I wrote hundreds of tunes which I recorded onto a Panasonic tape deck. A friend of mine had a reel-to-reel and we would cut tapes together and also play around with radio songs pretending to be 'mixers'. My eldest brother was attending Bible College in Tennessee, readily preparing to devote his life to the Ministry. My second eldest brother was doing religious seminars entitled "Rock-n-Roll revelation" – A didactic outcry against sex, drugs and rock-n-roll. In the meantime I was at home bombarding my mother with questions about life, death and God as the onset of adolescence gave reign to a rather naive yet philosophical Indiana Gregg.
Woman in progress
All was fine until I met my future German husband during my last term at University where I committed the ultimate sin . . . I fell pregnant! Suddenly, my life became jumbled and I moved to Europe. I hardly knew my new husband and we naively set up house in the south of France.
Within a year we began a chain of moves throughout Europe from Nice to Helsinki, Nurnberg to Stuttgart, Manchester and back to the French Riviera. I passed through a multitude of European cities and cultures over a period of five years. In every city we would set up house, I would learn the language, and somehow integrate with musicians in the local scene.
Aware that I had young children, I restricted rehearsals to mostly day-time hours while the children were at nursery. Because I was entering into adulthood and was a parent, I reverted to what I had found in bible-belt America and joined an international church where old gospel influences from my youth resurfaced. I formed a new band with gospel/R&B and rock influences and started to revisit some religious territory, basically trying to work out what life was all about.
In 2003, I went through a rough patch in my personal life. My husband had been working abroad a lot and eventually left me and my three children for his secretary. Shattered, shocked and disillusioned, I found solace in my music.
Shortly after the separation I was invited to do a record on the Kool & the Gang album "The Hits Reloaded". Getting my confidence back through music helped me give my children the stability they needed. They were a huge inspiration to me during this period as our creativity bounced off each other, and a real sense of joy came out of something that could have broken our spirits.
Woman at work
I wrote a load of new songs based on 10 jam-packed years of life experience. I found myself retrieving my childhood memories of when I was "the strange girl who speaks funny and wears leg braces". I had magically fallen back in love with songs and all the confidence it had brought me from those years in speech therapy. It was as if I'd put my dancing shoes back on again, only this time I had a palette of colorful life experiences behind me. I guess life was bringing me back to my first love and my first source of confidence.
The songs became a diary again. As I looked through them and listened to them, I started to recognize who I was and where I wanted to be. This learning curve and new experiences of the music business inspired me to title my debut album "Woman at Work" – the culmination of juggling three children, recording and producing a new album, jumping through hoops, and finally landing a deal.
I have millions of aspirations, but I enjoy the "route" a lot more than the "destination". So much of who we are comes from where we've been and who we've hung around with. I may not be able to tell you where I'll be in the future, but, I can tell you that I'll enjoy every minute getting there!
xx Indiana Gregg
Women's Radio Interviews Indiana: sneak peek:)
June 13, 2009
Women's Radio Brian Ball interviews Indiana about the official launch of new Social Networking site Kerchoonz.com and new features like K'ching where artists and fans alike can buy and sell products a...
Video Demo: How to Turn a Table into a loud-speaker:
June 10, 2009
K-box: Turning Surfaces into Sound
New coming to Kerchoonz this week (sneak preview)
June 8, 2009
Kerchoonz has been working behind the scenes to bring users a new look and some new tools which will be launched later on this week.First of all, one of the new sections to Kerchoonz is Kching! Which...
Latest news
New coming to Kerchoonz this week (sneak preview)
June 13, 2009
Kerchoonz has been working behind the scenes...
Indiana on Women's Radio: About Kerchoonz' launch and Music
June 13, 2009
Women's Radio Brian Ball interviews Indiana about the official launch of new Social Networking site Kerchoonz.com and new features like K'ching where artists and fans alike can buy and sell products a...
K-box: Turns surfaces into sound!
May 28, 2009
This is the K-box! It's my favorite new gadget. The Kbox is a small portable speaker that can turn any surface into a loudspeaker. It works through a patented Gel audio t...
New things happening!
April 22, 2009
It's been a while since we've updated this page and the truth is, we've been extremely busy. Since March 2008, Indiana and Ian have founded a new social networking site called Kerchoonz http://www.k...
Planning A tour!
February 23, 2009
Indiana will be playing in the US from September 2009. If you would like to bring Indiana to a city near you, demand it below and either send this link to people you know in your area http://eventful...
Indiana on Twitter
February 23, 2009
Indiana has a Twitter now! join and follow @indianagregghttp://twitter.com/indianagregg/
On our Way to Italy!
January 22, 2009
Hi,Six of us are on our way to Italy tomorrow to play a gig at the Teatro Galletti in Domodossola, Italy! I'm really excited about it. We haven't played for a couple of months because we've been wor...
May the best Band Win!
December 5, 2008
Kerchoonz live! The best bands get recorded by Kerchoonz TV in a professional studio! Dec 5, 2008 (Total Guitar Magazine)Unsigned Band? Earn Dosh At Kerchoonz.comIf you're in an unsigned band and not...
Gigs in Italy in 2009!
October 14, 2008
Indiana will be playing gigs in Italy in 2009 at the Theatro Galletti in Domodossola! Shows are scheduled for January 23rd and April 3, 2009! Tickets are 15 euros and can be purchased either at the d...
TV interviews
September 30, 2008
Indiana and Ian on the morning show explaining Kerchoonz.com
Hi ya! Thanks for dropping in on my life! This site is a visual biography that will take you through my journey as a "Woman At Work".
The "Woman at Work" CD is now available at HMV and Virgin and other fine record stores. You can pre-order the new single "One Of Us" by texting "One of Us" to 78789 (uk mobiles only) or by clicking here
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Here's wishing "Sweet Things" for you and yours! :)
xx Indiana Gregg
Latest News from my blog
New coming to Kerchoonz this week (sneak preview)
June 13, 2009
Kerchoonz has been working behind the scenes...
Indiana on Women's Radio: About Kerchoonz' launch and Music
June 13, 2009
Women's Radio Brian Ball interviews Indiana about the official launch of new Social Networking site Kerchoonz.com and new features like K'ching where artists and fans alike can buy and sell products a...
K-box: Turns surfaces into sound!
May 28, 2009
This is the K-box! It's my favorite new gadget. The Kbox is a small portable speaker that can turn any surface into a loudspeaker. It works through a patented Gel audio t...
