joey

Joey

Arroyo

Bio

Age: 23
Hometown: Tempe, AZ

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Introduction:

Hey all, I’m Joey Arroyo. I’ve been playing guitar since I was about 5 years old. I originally wanted to be a drummer but my parents got me a mini nylon string guitar for Christmas one year instead so I wouldn’t make too much noise. It makes sense looking back on it now considering how much of a racket I was capable of making without an instrument at all.

When I was younger, I played for a few years, then quit…then played…then quit. I was fussy with it indeed, but it wasn’t until Junior High when I met my drummer Chris Lucier that I really began to enjoy it. We “wrote” a whole bunch of songs, likely in the same key and started pretending to be a band. It wasn’t long before we actually picked up other members and started a “Nu Metal” band called No One Important. Looking back on it now, it’s kind of funny to picture myself playing that kind of music, seeing as how that’s one of the genres I have the toughest time appreciating today. However, it was a great chapter of my life, and crazy enough, that little bunch of Junior High kids played shows at clubs all over the city and grew a pretty large fan base. Music has been a part of my life ever since in one way or another.

I went to a public High School for a year and that was about all I could tolerate, at which point I ended up at New School For the Arts in Tempe, Arizona. I changed my major a million times to everything from digital art and painting, to musical theater and choir. My school sat on the exact location of the famous “Electric Ballroom” and it kept the same stage intact that bands like Kiss and Gwar played on. I’m sure they never thought, many years later, that young kids like me would be kick ball changing our way through songs like “Wheels of a Dream” and other musical numbers of the like on the very same stage they used to eat people alive with giant fabric monsters.

My brother and I have always held a strong passion for producing music, and had every intention of setting up shop with our studio to start producing bands and hip hop artists. When I got out of High School, we jumped right in and started Clear as Night Incorporated. Some people spend all their life paying off a College loan, for me, it was a business loan. We invested into, by today, a good fifty thousand dollars into our studio equipment and purchased a house in the city of Maricopa, or BFE rather. We turned it into our studio and are now rockin and rollin’.

We only had one issue, we needed to get a good feel for our gear first, so my brother Kenny thought, “Why not have Joey write a tune or two and we can track it to see how everything sounds.” Thus, unintentionally starting what I had no idea would be my career as a Singer/Songwriter. It quickly turned from, “lets try this gear out,” to, “lets focus all of our attention on this project instead.”

Years have passed since and we’ve been exercising patience to the highest degree, making sure we had the right formula of individuals who would fit the bill perfectly before really trying to push the market. Luckily, in the meantime, I slowly made a name for myself over the years and continued writing music. Now that the pieces are all together, we have very big plans over the next couple of years and all the confidence in the world to achieve what we have waited so long for since we originally gave birth to this project four years ago. Sometimes what you never intend can become such an amazing experience, and this case, I’m grateful for the gift of being able to perform on stage in front a lot of people. What the hell would I be doing without music anyway? I’d probably get ripped, learn a fake accent, and end up trying to get a job in Vegas with the cast of Thunder from Down Under…