Angie Kay graduated from the School of the Arts in 1995 with a major in music (percussion)
and received several music scholarships to colleges such as University of North Florida and
Jacksonville University. However, Angie decided to expand her horizons even more and studied
biology at the University of North Florida. After two years of biology and no music, Angie
began to miss the music that was so much a part of her, so she sought out percussionist
Charlotte Mabory (Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra) and studied four mallet techniques on the
marimba for a semester. In her junior year in college Angie began to be turned on to the guitar
through the influence of Stevie Ray Vaughan. He played guitar with the intense rhythm that
Angie was so attracted to on the drums. So a new spark began and Angie took her music
background with everything she had learned and began to teach herself lead guitar. Her
progress was fast and it wasn't long before she was putting together a 3-piece blues band
called The Angie Kay Blues Band.
In 2000 Angie graduated with a B.A. from the University of North Florida. Shortly
after graduation she began her own ambitious project of starting her own recording studio
in which to write and record her original songs. In October 2003 this dream came true when
her CD was finally released. Angie wrote, recorded, and produced the 13 songs on her CD
"Honky Tonk Rock N Roll." She sang and played the drums, guitar and bass on the CD. Her
husband Curtis Perrin was the recording engineer and was an integral part of the recording
process.
Since the release of the CD Angie has had the opportunity of opening for many
accomplished artists such as B.B. King, Joe Cocker, Edgar Winter, The Doobie Brothers,
Cheap Trick, Mark Farner, Michael McDonald and the George's Music Springing the Blues
Festival.