Boyce Avenue

Boyce Avenue is an acoustic/alternative rock band, based in Sarasota, Florida. Formed in 2000, the band consists of three brothers: Alejandro Manzano:(Lead Vocals, Guitar, Piano) Fabian Manzano:(Guitar, Backing Vocals) and Daniel Manzano: (Bass, Percussion, Backing Vocals). Boyce Avenue has received alot of attention from doing covers and then releasing it on various sites such as YouTube, MySpace and Facebook. Their cover version of Umbrella, originally done by Rihanna has been viewed over 1 million times on YouTube alone. The covers are usually done by the band's front man Alejandro Manzano. Boyce Avenue have also produced their own songs and released it on the Apple software iTunes.
The band have said to have received alot of its influences from the work of other such bands/artists of the acoustic/alternative rock genre, including The Goo Goo Dolls, Train, Tonic, Dave Matthews Band and John Mayer. Lead singer Alejandro Mazano has stated that his biggest musical inspiration is John Rzeznik. Their song "All The While" was selected as the Winner in the Pop category of the "2007 John Lennon Songwriting Contest", and "Find Me" was selected as one of the Finalist in the Pop category for the U.S.A. Songwriting Competition.

As of July 2007, the band entered the studio again to produce their upcoming first album, which will be released in March 2008. On completion of the album, the band have planned a tour of Florida and the Southeast of the United States.

Discography
*Hear Me Now - Singles EP
*Find Me - Singles EP
*All The While - Singles EP
*So Much Time - Singles EP
*Umbrella (Acoustic) - Cover of Rihanna's song Umbrella.
*Before It's Too Late (Acoustic) - Cover of The Goo Goo Dolls song Before It's Too Late.
*Apologize - Cover of Timbaland Feat.One Republic's song Apologize.
*So Small (Acoustic) - Cover of Carrie Underwood's song So Small.
*Without You Here (Acoustic) - Cover of The Goo Goo Dolls' song Without You Here.
*Lovestoned (acoustic) - Cover of Justin Timberlake's song Lovestoned.
*Beautiful Girls - Cover of Sean Kingston's song Beautiful Girls.
*Alicia Keys/Jordin Sparks/Fergie (Justin Timberlake) medley.

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