February 13, 2017

Hip-hop artist Bryce Vine will visit Purdue this spring

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — When his hit song “Sour Patch Kids,” garnered 4.3 million streams on Spotify, Bryce Vine started gaining hip-hop traction. Vine, featuring local band Grey Lamb, will perform at the Anvil, 320 North St., West Lafayette, on March 31 at 7 p.m.

The performance is presented by the Student Concert Committee with support from the Purdue University Student Fee Advisory Board.

Vine was born in New York City. The singer and rapper spent his childhood there in a humble apartment with his single mother. Just after his 10th birthday she moved them both to Los Angeles while she was looking for work as an actress — eventually landing a lead role on the daytime drama series, “Passions.”

Vine found his natural talent and love of music and entertainment at a very young age through his close relationship with his mother, spending time on set and helping her rehearse scenes. In junior high, Vine continued to develop his voice and love for music when he discovered 90's rhythm and blues when he used to visit his father. As a result, Vine convinced his mother to buy a guitar for him and he started developing his own sound at 13.

Vine was continuing to focus on development at an early age when disaster struck. While on vacation at age 16, he slipped and broke his neck. The experience simultaneously humbled him and inspired him. He was lucky enough to experience a full recovery, but he threw himself into music, which eventually resulted in a scholarship to Berklee College of Music.

It was at Berklee where Vine met his producer and music soul mate Nolan Lambroza of The Messengers. Together, the two of them began churning out music and working towards the common goal of creating a new sound triumphed by a cutting edge new artist.

Vine’s sound is a blend of singable radio-friendly pop music, laid back, in-the-cut hip-hop, and a California brand of positivity mixed with the mantra, “You only live once.”

Tickets go on sale to Purdue and Ivy Tech Lafayette students with a current identification card at 10 a.m. Thursday (Feb. 16) online only. Students will receive an email with additional instructions.

Tickets for the general public go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday (Feb. 18) online at www.purduescc.com/tickets or any Ticketmaster outlet.

Student tickets cost $10 and general public tickets are $12.

Each semester through on-line survey and in-person tabling on campus, the Student Concert Committee is continually asked to produce events in standing-room, general admission settings.  With this student request in mind, SCC is proud to introduce the Anvil to all fans of live music and entertainment on campus.  Located at the corner of North and Grant Street across the street from the Purdue Memorial Union and Grant Street Parking Garage, the Anvil serves as a co-working space for Purdue University students and entrepreneurs seeking to take their ideas further.  Formerly home to the space occupied by the University Church, SCC is excited to take an entrepreneurial approach to concert promotion and turn the area into Purdue’s newest venue space. 

Source: Abby Eddy, Purdue Convocations director of marketing,  765-494-9712, aeeddy@purdue.edu 

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