Boyce Avenue

Boyce Avenue
Origin	Sarasota, Florida
Genres	Alternative rock
Years active	2004–present
Labels	3 Peace, Universal Republic (2010–2011)
Website	boyceavenue.com
Members
Alejandro Manzano Daniel Manzano Fabian Manzano

Boyce Avenue is an American acoustic rock band. It was formed in Sarasota, Florida, by brothers Alejandro, Daniel and Fabian Manzano. The band is named after a combination of two streets the brothers lived on as children. As of August 9, 2011, they are no longer signed to Universal Republic and have started their own independent record label called 3 Peace Records.

Career

The band formed in 2004 when Daniel moved back to Florida after graduating from Harvard Law School. Alejandro and Fabian were both attending classes at the University of Florida.

In 2006, Boyce Avenue began posting videos on YouTube, both of original material and cover versions. Some of these covers have reached up to 11,000,000 views. These covers have been released in EPs digitally by 3 Peace. While producing the videos for YouTube, Boyce Avenue continued to create original material for a debut album, All You're Meant To Be, which was released on March 3, 2008. In January 2009, the band performed a stand-alone show in New York City.

With their sights set on connecting with their online fan base, the band turned their attention to touring, playing four headlining shows in the Philippines.^[1][2] Shortly following this, the band began its first tour of the US.

The band then launched a tour of Europe, including dates in Germany, Ireland and the UK. In early 2010, they returned to the Philippines to play festivals with Kris Allen^[3] and the Jabbawockeez. This was followed by a spring revisit tour of Europe in 2010.

As of March 2011, they are the second most searched for band on Youtube, behind Linkin Park^[4] with over 300 million views and counting, and are known for their distinct cover songs. The band frequently tours to the Philippines and the UK.

Most recently^[when?] the band signed with Universal Republic^[5] and has a second album, entitled All We Have Left, released on June 15, 2010. The album was produced and financed entirely by Boyce Avenue prior to being signed to Universal Republic. The album contains reworked songs from All You're Meant To Be and new songs written for the album. The albums first single, "Every Breath", was released digitally on March 16, 2010. The music video for "Every Breath" was released on March 20, 2010.

They cover new popular songs which their fans have chosen for them, including multiple collaborations with other YouTube artists such as Kina Grannis, Box Man Dan, Tiffany Alvord, Megan Nicole, Alex Goot, Megan & Liz, David Choi, Tyler Ward, Savannah Outen, Cobus Potgieter and DeStorm . In November 2011, they released their original music video, "Dare to Believe."

Members

• Alejandro Manzano – lead vocals, guitar, piano
• Fabian Manzano – guitar, backing vocals, keyboards
• Daniel Manzano – percussion, bass, backing vocals, violin
• Jason Burrows – drums, percussion (on tour)
• Stephen Hatker – drums, percussion (previous member)

Discography

Albums

• 2008: All You’re Meant To Be
• 2010: All We Have Left

Singles

• 2010: "Every Breath"^[6]
• 2011: "What Makes You Beautiful" (UK chart peak: #181)^[7]

References

1. ^ "Philippine Star: Boyce Avenue More Than Just A Youtube Sensation". The Philippine Star. 2009-02-16. http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleid=440848. Retrieved 2011-08-21. ^{[dead link]}
2. ^ "Manila Bulletin: Boyce Avenue having a blast in RP". Manila Bulletin. 2010-02-06. http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/242068/boyce-avenue-having-a-blast-rp. Retrieved 2011-08-21. 
3. ^ "Meet Boyce Avenue". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20100610/ARTICLE/6101011/2058/NEWS. Retrieved 2011-08-21. 
4. ^ "Boyce Avenue Youtube". YouTube. 2011-06-16. http://www.youtube.com/user/boyceavenue. Retrieved 2011-10-04. 
5. ^ "Creative Loafing: Band of brothers: Before signing with Universal Republic, Boyce Avenue achieved world notoriety DIY-style". Blogs.creativeloafing.com. 2010-06-08. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/the941/2010/06/08/band-of-brothers-before-signing-with-universal-republic-boyce-avenue-achieved-world-notoriety-diy-style/. Retrieved 2011-08-21. ^{[dead link]}
6. ^ "Boyce Avenue - Every Breath (Official Music Video) on iTunes". YouTube. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
7. ^ http://zobbel.de/cluk/111029cluk.txt

External links

• Boyce Avenue videos

com/user/boyceavenue/ Boyce Avenue's official YouTube page]

• Boyce Avenue at Allmusic
• Boyce Avenue at Music-covers