Simone Felice

Simone Felice is a multi-talented designer whose literate, artful, and passionate tunes have already been informed with a existence full of unstable drama. Simone was created on Oct 4, 1976 in Palenville, a little working-class city in upstate NY close to the Catskill Mountains. Felice’s existence was first designated as something unusual when he was 12; youthful Simone experienced a mind aneurysm that held him inside a medical center for two weeks as he gradually recovered his fundamental motor abilities and learned once more how exactly to read and create. By enough time he was 15, Felice experienced developed a pastime in music, playing within an experimental punk rock-band with his close friends. As the group’s lyricist, Felice discovered to spin improbable tales which resulted in his initial tests with poetry. In 2000, Felice released his first publication, a assortment of verse known as The Picture Display, and was quickly publishing short tales. Nevertheless, as his literary profession was increasing, Felice’s desire for music also required a step of progress; Simone and his sibling Ian Felice started writing songs collectively, and made tough recordings of their use friend and bassist Doc Dark brown. Eventually another sibling, James Felice, became a member of the group on accordion, and with Ian on business lead vocals and acoustic guitar and Simone on drums, they used the name the Felice Brothers and self-released their debut recording, Through These Reins and Eliminated, in 2006. Between 2007 and 2009, the Felice Brothers released three albums and toured thoroughly, gaining a status among the best & most first groups in the Americana picture, and Simone received his credited among the group’s most gifted lyricists. In 2008, Simone had taken a busman’s vacation and performed drums using the Avett Brothers on the record I and Like and You, however the Felice Brothers continued hiatus in early 2009 as Simone and his wife had been anticipating the delivery of their initial baby. When the few lost the kid to a miscarriage, Simone retreated into songwriting along with his friend Robert “Poultry” Burke, plus they produced a duo known as the Duke & the Ruler (named for just two people in Tag Twain’s The Ventures of Huckleberry Finn), documenting their debut record, Nothing Silver Can Stay, that was released with the year’s end. This year 2010, Felice proceeded to go into the medical center after some fainting spells, and found that an undiagnosed congenital center condition still left him with serious arterial blockage and needed immediate medical operation. Despite another brush with loss of life, Simone enjoyed a complete recovery and acquired a prolific 2011 — he released a self-titled second record using the Duke & the Ruler, the Felice Brothers reunited for the record Special event, Florida, and Simone released his first book, Black Jesus. Shortly after his center surgery treatment, Felice and his partner welcomed a wholesome baby child, and inspired partly by fatherhood, he started writing tunes for what became his self-titled debut recording, that was released in 2012. In the springtime of 2014, Felice came back along with his second single effort, Strangers, including efforts from Ian and Wayne Felice, Jeremiah Fraites and Wesley Schultz from the Lumineers, and Leah Siegel.