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He was presented with the award in September at the 2015 Steamtown Music Awards.
For more than two decades, Alexander has been perhaps the most respected person within the musical community of northeastern PA.
As a founding member of The Badlees, he served as the band’s principal song writer for 24 years.
The Badlees “River Songs” tour, which lasted nearly two years, including shows with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, The Allman Brothers and Bob Seger.
The Badlees were signed to a second national recording contract, this time inking a deal with Ark 21/Universal Records, which was founded by Miles Copeland, who is credited with helping launch the careers of The Police and R.E.M.
Over the past 15 years, Alexander also released a solo album, and recorded and performed with a side project, The Cellarbirds, which also received critical acclaim and national airplay. In 2014, he left The Badlees and formed Gentleman East, an explosive new project featuring former Badlees bassist Paul Smith, drummer Ron Simasek and former Breaking Benjamin guitarist Aaron Fink. The band recently released its debut EP, “Oh Yesterday.”
His work has also been featured on national commercials, with MTV Books and on MTV and on the television broadcast of the Winter Olympic Games. It has also been included in several feature films.
A gifted songwriter with the ability to create cinematic images within the lyrics of his songs . A powerful vocalist. An engaging guitarist and a multi-instrumentalist. They are all just a part of Alexander’s musical legacy. The other is the place that countless area musicians have spent countless hours. It is the place he produces records: Saturation Acres Recording Studio.
Over the past 15 years, hundreds if not thousands of solo artists and bands have recorded with Alexander at Saturation Acres. There, he helps shape their music, capture their songs, develop their sound and help them be the best at what they love to do most: make music. Alexander is not an engineer. He is a producer.
He is formerly from Canton, is a Canton High School graduate and the son of Sharon and the late Norman Alexander.