Pike, Patrice

Patrice, captured on the BMG stage at the Austin City Limits Music Festival on September 17, 2011. Patrice Pike is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. She's been a professional musician and songwriter since she was sixteen. Billboard magazine proclaimed her "one of the finest up and coming contemporary rock singers in America".
Pike is known to many as the front woman for the seminal Austin jam band Sister Seven which she co-founded soon after attending of The High School for the performing and visual arts at Booker T. Washington in Dallas Texas. She has toured as a solo artist since Sister 7 stopped touring both in the U.S. and overseas. She has co-created numerous records and musical groups, including her band the Black Box Rebellion and toured all over the United States and Western Europe. Patrice has been recently inducted into the Austin/Texas Music Hall of Fame when she also won Musician of the Year, Best Female Vocalist, and Song of the year in Austin for her song Beautiful Thing, which she debuted on the CBS primetime Television series “Rockstar”. She has performed in tours and festivals including Lilith Fair and HORDE tour to music festival institutions like Austin City Limit’s, High Sierra, Strawberry, and Kerrville festivals. Patrice has been known to participate regularly in social and environmental activism and she is also the co-founder and acting executive director of the Grace Foundation of Texas, an organization that provides services for young adult survivors of homelessness. Patrice's new release "the Calling" will come out in 2012. Excerpts from Wiki.