Nicole Couch

Nicole Couch
Birth name	Nicole Couch
Born	August 18, 1969(1969-08-18) Chicago, Illinois, USA
Genres	Hard rock Heavy metal
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Guitar
Years active	1987–1992
Labels	Shrapnel Records Roadrunner Records Geffen
Associated acts	Phantom Blue
Website	myspace.com/nicolecouch9

Nicole Couch is a female American musician and songwriter, and founding member of the all-female heavy metal band Phantom Blue.

Biography

Nicole Couch was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in rural Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee.

Musical education and Phantom Blue

Couch began studying piano at the age of five and took up guitar at twelve. She left home at sixteen and began studying at the Musicians Institute. Through a mutual friend at the Musicians Institute, Couch was introduced to guitarist Michelle Meldrum. Couch and Meldrum, along with vocalist Gigi Hangach, drummer Linda McDonald and bassist Debra Armstrong, formed the all-female heavy metal band Phantom Blue. The band with Couch recorded their self-titled debut album on Mike Varney's Shrapnel Records in 1989, in which she wrote majority of the songs. She also co-wrote many of the songs in the band's 1993 follow-up Built to Perform, which was released under Geffen Records. Couch left the band prior to the recording of Built to Perform and relocated to New York City, then later moved to the British Virgin Islands, where she taught general music at Cedar International School for five years. Couch is also an accomplished classical pianist.

Discography

Phantom Blue

• Phantom Blue (1989)
• Built to Perform (songwriting credits) (1993)

External links

• Nicole Couch's Official MySpace Music Profile

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