Biography

ADDIE was born in Seattle Wa. to Jazz musician parents. She was welcomed to Hollywood before she waa born by her Great Grandmother who appeared on "The Welcome To Hollywood" radio show, so she was destined for a career long before it became a reality.  The family relocated to Palo Alto, Ca. where her father was a president of Design with Hewlett Packard. ADDIE was an orignial "Silicon Valley Girl"!

Her mother had a Jazz career as Margie Koehler (http://www.musicforte.com/member/maggiestate)and her cousin was the famous saxophone player, Don Lanphere, who was in Woody Herman's original band. He later recorded as a solo artist. Her mother and her cousin had a band in Wenatchee, Wa. as they were growing up that included Quincy Jones when he was only 15 years old!

ADDIE began her musical education at nine with piano lessons. Her Father was the Jazz pianist in the family so this was a must with all her siblings. After some horrible teachers, she became impressed with the guitar after seeing her second grade teacher play to the class. She remembers the great thing about the guitar was that you could take it with you, Like to the beach.. ADDIE was an original Surfer Girl as well.

After becoming completely obsessed with the guitar ADDIE locked herself in her room after school everyday and played her guitar. She learned LEAD by playing the Ventures instrumental music over and over again and learning all the guitar parts. Then she discovered the Blues. She got some old blues records by Earl Hooker, Albert King, John Lee Hooker, and Chuck Berry, amoung others. She would play the records over and over learning each lick precisely. Soon there after she joined some local bands with some of her high school friends. THen at 15 years old she put her own band together called The California Girls.