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<\/a>Inner Circle Avenue is composed of siblings, from left, Allison, Logan and Eric Alexander.<\/p><\/div>Logan credits his time at the University as playing a significant role in his success. His undergraduate degree was in electrical engineering. He wanted to understand the fundamentals and technology behind recorded music. For his master\u2019s degree, he chose a music degree, which also included a concentration in music technology.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy professors were Wade Paul, Dr. [David] Jex and Dr. [Lee] Heritage. They always made the classes exciting and encouraged students to actively participate in unique ways. I really found that teaching style enjoyable and helpful,\u201d Logan said, adding his classes directly impacted his music. \u201cI really loved music theory and the classical music influence. It really helped improve my music writing skills in every way.\u201d<\/p>\n
As a graduate assistant, Logan also had the chance to teach, an experience he thoroughly enjoyed. \u201cI loved the whole process of teaching and working with students. I really liked being able to help other people learn. I think I made it fun. I didn\u2019t just drone on and on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Inner Circle Avenue\u2019s sibling members hail from Blissfield, Mich. They have been performing together for the past five years, playing many local and regional clubs, including Frankie\u2019s, the Ottawa Tavern and the Distillery. Two years ago, they won the Next2Rock local Battle of the Bands through Cumulus Media and Bar 145. <\/p>\n
The group also has been heavily self-promoting their music on Spotify and many other social media outlets. Their efforts and the quality of their work caught the attention of AMG Executive Vice President Michael Usry. <\/p>\n
Logan said, \u201cWe got a call out of the blue late last December. Michael from AMG said, \u2018We really love your music and want to work with you.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n
The partnership was to include promotion and distribution of the group\u2019s music, as well as a college concert tour and a tour in Asia.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe knew this was really something big. We decided to sign with them because we wanted to maintain the rights to our music and this contract lets us do that,\u201d Logan said.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has delayed the band\u2019s plans for touring, but the siblings remain determined to record and distribute their music.<\/p>\n
Logan noted that an important dynamic of Inner Circle Avenue is the band members\u2019 commitment to hard work and their stout refusal to give up. \u201cI have seen so many bands that showed such great promise, genius even, on the brink of success and give up because of a setback or two. We\u2019re not like that. We\u2019re going to push through and make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Visit Inner Circle Avenue\u2019s website<\/strong><\/a> to learn more and listen to their music on Spotify<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UToledo alumnus Logan Alexander and his siblings, Allison and Eric Alexander, who are students at the University, have signed a partnership contract with Sony Music and AMG. Their band is called Inner Circle Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,60,34,1,40,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60210,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60206\/revisions\/60210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}