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Christine "Mistine" Meisenhelter is a professionally trained bassist, vocalist, and guitarist based out of Los Angeles, CA. She has performance experience in various genres including: pop, rock, funk, blues, and R&B. Her areas of expertise include electric bass, synth bass, vocal, and guitar performance. Along with popular music performance. Christine is also skilled in music directing, songwriting and audio engineering.
Graduating from the University of Southern California's esteemed Popular Music program sent Christine out to Los Angeles, where she now resides. At school she studied under leading professionals including, Alphonso Johnson, Ndugu Chancler, Patrice Rushen, Chris Sampson, Jeffrey Allen, Sean Holt, Andy Abad, and Rhonda Smith. Christine is the Vice Chair/Program Director for Turn Up Her Mic. Artist Advisory Board for the Rockit Live Foundation, and currently holds a Masters in Sustainable Business Leadership and is focused on creating a sustainable environment within the music touring community. She is full of energy and passionate about working with artists to achieve the best performance possible.
Melody Ector is an LA-based session music director, keyboardist, composer and producer who tours and records both internationally and throughout the United States; she currently worked most notably with major pop artists Teyana Taylor, King Princess, Tones and I and Bea Miller.
Originally from West Orange, New Jersey, Melody began studying classical piano at the age of 3 and started jazz piano shortly thereafter. After performing across the tri-state area throughout her childhood and as a young adult, she moved to Los Angeles to attend USC’s Popular Music Performance Program and graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree. While at USC, she studied privately with Patrice Rushen, Ndugu Chancler, and Alan Pasqua; by the time she graduated in 2019, she was already touring extensively with King Princess, with whom she performed in headlining shows and festivals such as Saturday Night Live, James Colbert Show, Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Glastonbury, among others.