Annasay

Annasay is an American alternative rock band from Pennsylvania, United States, formed in 2006.

Early career

The band started out however under different influences. Originally starting with Brad Lebakken doing an acoustic project in 2006. The original project was more geared toward a Dashboard Confessional type of a sound. Soon Ron Kauffman would join with Brad and begin working on Brad's acoustic music. Ron added some electric guitar and helped in the college studio where they recorded Brad's solo album. The result was the self titled album under Brad Lebakken's name. After releasing the album Ron and Brad started playing the songs with a drummer named Dave Harris, and a Bass player (Jered Rabold) who was from Brad's previous band "Linus" (a screamo/punk band). The four started playing shows together and eventually wrote the 1st official Annasay album called "Conversations". This album was essentially a demo recording but still showed the catchiness, and talent of the bands songwriting abilities.

After the release of the "Conversations" album and A Tour, Annasay joined up with David Santistevan who began playing electric guitar for the band. With Dave on electric guitar Brad ended up dropping his role as acoutic guitarist and started writing a New album geared toward electric guitar. Midway through writing the album Dave Santistevan began focusing more on his own music. After Dave Santistevan parted ways with the band Doug Heckman (formerly of the Rockstar Collective) joined to fill the electric guitar role. During this time Annasay finished writing and recording the new EP.

Band Members

  • Brad Lebakken - Vocals/ Keyboard/ Guitar
  • Pat Beymer - Electric Guitar /Bgv
  • Jered Rabold - Bass
  • Dave Harris - Drums
  • Douglas Paul Heckman - Electric Guitar

Discography

Albums

  • 2008: Annasay
  • 2007: Conversations