Chris Ayer is a solo guitar artist.

Early life and education

Ayer attended The Potomac School from kindergarten until twelfth grade. A graduate of

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, where he studied philosophy and music, Ayer began playing the guitar and writing songs when he was 18 years old. While at Stanford, Ayer also sang with the

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, an all-male

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group. Ayer released his first EP, ''Static'', in June 2003 (which sold over a thousand copies), a live album in 2004, an album of acoustic demos in 2005, and a self-produced EP entitled ''New Songs'', which received national airpla

Career

His first full-length album, ''This Is The Place'', was recorded in Nashville and produced by Jason Gantt (

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). Ayer was a winner in the folk category in the 2006 John Lennon Songwriting Contest for his original song "Evaporate".http://www.jlsc.com/winners/2006b/lennon_awards.php John Lennon Songwriting Awards He performed two tours with

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as a live guitarist and singer in the UK in 2006. In January 2013, he was signed to

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in the UK and Europe. He released another full-length album, ''The Noise'', in March 2013. This album made it to number six on the

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Singer-Songwriter charts and has a 5-star rating. He toured the Netherlands with fellow musician Matt Simons in April 2013, and then toured in Switzerland and Italy for the rest of the spring. Ayer's music has appeared in the web series

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Discography

Albums/EPs

References

External links

Chris Ayer's Homepage
– Official Website * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ayer, Chris 1984 births Living people 21st-century American guitarists 21st-century American male singers 21st-century American singer-songwriters American male guitarists American male pop singers American male singer-songwriters American rock guitarists American rock singers American rock songwriters People from Stanford, California Singer-songwriters from California