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CrowFly formed from one simple song and one simple idea, The Loss of Fear. It’s hard to follow your dreams: It’s not easy to win and it’s not hard to lose, but when you realize your dreams are possible and you find the right people, it can be done. Guitarist, Davey Jones, and Frontman, Brandon James, wrote the song Losing Our Fear. That was the gateway for all that was to follow, which is Crowfly Today. Tim Estes came in on Drums and Piano, and Lucha Spivacow added the Bass to round out Crowfly. The future success of this band is inevitable.
CROWFLY ARE:
Brandon James
Davey Jones
Danny Borrali
Bass
Tim Estes
Brandon James is the lead vocalist and frontman of the Rock band “CROWFLY”. Music has been his passion and main focus in life since he was about 15. Brandon started playing guitar at that age and started singing shortly after. He originally started his music career playing drums. After a few lessons and a few strums on the guitar, he soon decided he would rather play guitar. The front mans very first musical project was called “Funkhouser” Why? He doesn’t know. But it was through this initial project at about 16 years old Brandon found his passion in life. Brandon recalls his first show, which was on New Years Eve. That performance with the lights, energy, and crowd made him realize this is all he ever wanted to do. Later Brandon formed the band “Turning Point” and started the beginning of his vocal career. The singer says he was not that great at first so he decided to take lessons from the legendary frontman (Steve Whiteman) of the band KIX. After working with him a few months I was able to establish my own sound and identity says Brandon. “Almost everything I know about singing I learned from Mr. Whiteman” After a few years with Turning Point the band came to an end. A few of the members went their separate ways and the band had no choice but to disassemble. A few years later Brandon’s previous drummer from Turning Point (Davey Jones) reconnected with him, and CrowFly was born. The two basically picked up where Turning Point left off. Brandon James has played with National Acts such as Pop Evil, Skid Rowe, Seven Dust, Alterbridge, Candlebox, and LA Guns to name a few. The singer says there is no better feeling than being on stage watching your fans sing your lyrics and relate to your art. Brandon’s goal is to continue to create, perform, and share the magic this band has created. To continue to make Rock N Roll music that people can understand and relate to. I think making music should be like painting a picture. Use any color and any method to design what you feel. CrowFly has all of the right ingredients. Now it’s time to make the soup.
Davey Jones is the guitarist and songwriter for CrowFly. He grew up in rural Pennsylvania along with Brandon James, lead singer of Crowfly. They started playing music at an early age, in their mid-teens. He was originally a drummer, but started learning guitar, along with Brandon James. His Dad taught them both how to play, and gave them the foundation to really explore and grow with their instruments. As the years passed, he ended up back on drums, where he stayed for a bulk of his musical career, almost 20 years. Brandon and himself were in countless bands together, and it wasn’t until the break-up of the only successful band they were in, Turning Point, that they went their separate ways, to explore new musical avenues and opportunities. Davey moved out west for a few years and became interested in music production, and took that up as a way of still staying involved with music. About 5 years later, he moved back to the east coast, and re-connected with Brandon James in a project he was involved in that needed a drummer. Davey joined that band, and after a year, they were not happy with the direction of the band. So one night Brandon and Davey both sat down with their acoustics, just to jam a bit, and the magic happened. They wrote what would become their flagship song, Losing Our Fear. They instantly knew they had something special. CrowFly was born.
Once Davey knew CrowFly was what he wanted to do, he also realized it was time to make the return to guitar. Drums were always fun to play, and he loved every minute of it, but being behind his guitar is where he felt he needed to be for this. Davey had always kept up with guitar and practiced on a regular basis, along with the drums, but everything inside of him told him it was time for a change. And it paid off in dividends.
Davey’s goal in life has always been to succeed in the music business. Either as a musician in a band, or someone involved in music production. Music is his life, his passion, and his driving force. Davey will stop at nothing to have this dream come to fruition. And to be surrounded by fellow bandmates, who are just as passionate about music, is absolutely phenomenal. He personally could not ask for a better group of guys to be in a band with. It drives Davey even harder to be a better musician, and to succeed at what they all love. Music.
LUCHA SPIVACOW was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on September 10th 1986 . It was obvious at a young age that Lucha was destined for the stage and he picked up the guitar in his early teens then migrated to Bass guitar at age 16. His musical influences are a wide range of early 80s European Pop like Depeche Mode, Erasure, Flock of Seagulls to the highly aggressive and theatrical Japanese metal like Dir En Grey and X Japan. These highly diverse and abstract influences are what fuel Lucha’s intense Bass lines in a band that relies heavily on the Bass for its unique sound. Lucha came to the US in 2014 to pursue his dream of making a life in the music industry and landed in NYC. After a few years in New York , Spivacow moved to Miami where he crossed paths with the guys in CROWFLY. . On his first audition with the band, after running though CROWFLY’S single “LOSING OUR FEAR” and only being in the room for a few minutes, Lucha(FULL OF CONFIDENCE) informed the Boys that they were playing the ending wrong and from that point on he was the Bassist for CROWFLY!!
Timothy Lane Estes plays drums and piano for CROWFLY. Tim Estes was born on Jan 29th in Melbourne, Florida. By age 11, Tim had a pair of drumsticks in his hands and was well on his way to basically living on a stage! Estes’ training started in middle school as a first chair snare drummer in both marching and concert band but the Rock n’ Roll bug bit him hard when he walked into his local record store at age 12 and saw the huge, life sized Motley Crue card board cutouts promoting Shout at the Devil’s release. From that moment on it was ENTERTAINMENT OR DEATH!! Tim played the local Central Florida music scene until age 19 and then moved to Los Angeles where he played the infamous Sunset Strip towards the end of the Strip’s colorful life and then Moved back to Florida to regroup. Tim headed next to NYC where he created THE DEADLYZ who recorded and toured from 2007-2010. After The Deadlyz parted ways, Tim joined the legendary blues icon ERIC SARDINAS as his touring USA drummer. That brings us to the present day of Crowfly where Tim keeps the beat playing piano, drums and performing back up vocals.