Working at a Native American research center I came across these stories that the Navajo tell only during the winter, and right away I loved this character and how he is not a human yet have human characteristics and his stories are so popular and funny. Also the Coyote is one of my favorite animals, they have a cool unique look to them with their own howl too. I was thinking how after every performance I would love to have the people howl and everytime you hear the howling of coyotes in the southwest you think of my music. Years from now people will still be howling and will remembering these jams...that is if I ever make it lol. I went through a list of names throughout my life and this one has stuck. Coyote Chr!s is my official name but Coyote for short.

Yup but not often since this is not a thriving area for pop music really. But the best example of how I want my band to sound like would be like Isreal Houghton, the Christian pop singer, he had the whole church rocking and he blew me out of there. He had the drums, sax, guitars, nice voice and background singers, he had it all...amazing! I have good fans from California to Pennslyvania that want me to come to their towns. I have done 2 shows locally, it was my 1st one and it was bad, and the second one was with a band and we did good, people liked us but I want to do more shows!

I think it helps big time, there was a time when the internet didnt exist and people had to go to greater lengths just to hear something new and pretty good, now just go on the internet and search it and boom you have it and mp3s,ipods, all those make music more portable. Some labels have benefitted from it while most have not but the internet has also been used as a discovering tool for A&Rs looking for new acts so you know, it's how you take it, it can help and it can destroy.

Yes I would but not for fame or fortune. I would love to do it so that everyone worldwide, even the most random people will at least know your songs. To have your average Joe out on the farm somewhere in Kentucky knowing about your stuff or that Bob in some skyscraper building in New York or Berlin knowing about your stuff? That would be cool. I'm talking with a label right now though so hopefully things will take shape soon.

Eversince I can remember I was either making up songs or writing stories and later drawing my own city skylines. I was a creative kid, and when I was around 10 years old I began getting more into songwriting, recording, poems, and scripts. One summer I tried my best, with the help of my parents, to make it with my scripts but I either got turned down, ignored or the agency was too expensive, my luck was bad. I was excited about this one agency and we went there and people told us that that agency was not there anymore and that was the last agency that we checked out and so I was depressed, put my stories anyway and decided to try it out with music and I have not look back since because everyday I'm recording a melody or coming up with some lyrics or discovering a new band or something of the sort. Other than trying to finish school, live a good life, and start up some bands! I still keep my head up for this dream. I have been turned down, ignored, talked about, and all of that when trying to make it with my music but I am soooo driven with this music, I'm still trying to make it and hours in front of the computer screen looking up labels, A&Rs, producers etc. is still going on with me even though I am talking with a record label right now that could really elevate my dream so we will see how it goes.

Anyways, I love music, it's the air I breath, and I hope people will enjoy my sound, this sound is new to me also but I have soooo many more ideas of where I want to go with my music it's too just much! lol, anyway I want to touch the world with this sound so I hope everyone enjoys the music!

MICHAEL JACKSON, PRINCE, Owl City, Mika, The-Dream, El DeBarge, Metro Station, Jonas Brothers, Zapp and Roger, MGMT, Vampire Weekend,Taylor Swift and the list goes on.

Fort Smith, Arkansas,Texas, Oklahoma, the Southwest, and Nashville, TN.

Yamaha keyboard, MicroKorg Synthesizer/Vocoder, Microphone, Music Software, Audio Interface, and me.

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