Alex Nguyen
Biography
Alex was born in the best city in the world(Ottawa), July 2nd 1997. Legend has it that, moments after he was born he was already plucking at piano keys and starting to compose music. By the age of 3, Nguyen's music became so fire that the government started to put restrictions on his musical ability, due to many complaints of third degree burns. The restrictions resulted in Nguyen losing his ability and being forced to start learning from scratch. His path to musical enlightenment started in grade 9 when he took part in the All Saint's Concert Band playing the clarinet. As his skill for the clarinet grew, so did his thirst for a new instrument. Inspired by Lil Wayne's legendary song "How to Love" Nguyen decided to learn how to play guitar, taking lessons from a local music institution.
Even with his insatiable desire to learn music, it wasn't until autumn 2014 when Nguyen took Miss Little's grade 12 guitar class, did Nguyen really start to grow as a musician. In this class Nguyen learned of the many different types of music through Name That Tunes which influences can be seen in his musical work. Later this year Alex hopes to release his new mixtape under the group name NoChillCrew, which features fellow local talent Nick Theriault and possibly an appearance by the one and only Caitlin Little.
In addition to his mad skills in the musical arts Nguyen also portrays qualities of being a hardworking student and employee consistently getting satisfactory on learning skills in his report cards. He wishes to pursue an engineering degree in the future at either McGill or Waterloo and proceed to make even more bank.
"Yo dawg listen to my mixtape it's fire fam!"
Even with his insatiable desire to learn music, it wasn't until autumn 2014 when Nguyen took Miss Little's grade 12 guitar class, did Nguyen really start to grow as a musician. In this class Nguyen learned of the many different types of music through Name That Tunes which influences can be seen in his musical work. Later this year Alex hopes to release his new mixtape under the group name NoChillCrew, which features fellow local talent Nick Theriault and possibly an appearance by the one and only Caitlin Little.
In addition to his mad skills in the musical arts Nguyen also portrays qualities of being a hardworking student and employee consistently getting satisfactory on learning skills in his report cards. He wishes to pursue an engineering degree in the future at either McGill or Waterloo and proceed to make even more bank.
"Yo dawg listen to my mixtape it's fire fam!"
Repertoire List(Guitar)
Alex's natural gift of guitar playing allows him to play virtually any song, after only hearing it once. Here we have a list of some of his favourite songs.
- Tears in Heaven- Eric Clapton
- River Flows in You- Yiruma (Sungha Jung)
- Classical Gas- Mason Williams
- Someone Like You- Adele
- My Heart Will Go On- Celine Dion
- Call Me Maybe- Carly Rae Jepsen
- Ghost Riders in the Sky- Johnny Cash
- Game of Thrones theme song
- Blackbird- The Beatles
- Dust in the Wind- Kansas
- Pirates of the Caribbean-Hans Zimmern
- Smoke on Water- Deep Purple
Repertoire List (Clarinet)
- Flight of the Thunderbird
- Pirates of the Caribbean theme
- My Heart Will Go On
- and not many more...
Performances
- Ottawa School of Music Winter Recital 2012, 2013
- Guitar Class Performances Grade 11 and 12
- Concert Band Performance Grade 9 and 10
- Kiwanis 2011-2013
- Swagfest 2014
- FIRE MIXTAPE CONTEST
- Graduation Ceremony of 2012
- ASH Winter Music Concert 2012
- Stay tuned! Alex will be performing in front of his homeboy Barack Obama in the near future!
Musical Accomplishments/Related Experiences
- Able to play flight of the bumble on the piano hours after being born
- Started playing guitar at age 15
- Plays the clarinet
- Volunteered at RBC's Bluesfest
- Was the sound dude for the Ottawa Piano Recital 2013
- His mom tells him he's okay at guitar