Meet GAVIN KAINE. He is TWENTY-FIVE and people mistake him for BRENDON URIE. He is currently a BARTENDER at CRESCENDO but plans to be a SINGER.
“Isn’t this exactly where you’d like me? I’m exactly where you’d like me, you know.” ♪
+ Outgoing, Proud, Talented
- Cocky, Superficial, Condescending
In the suburbs of New York City it isn’t uncommon to have one or two children who are phenomenal in each graduating class. Gavin was one of those, one of the extraordinaries who never realized how common they were until it came time to face the real world. While some excelled in academics, Gavin excelled in a slightly different field: music. He grew up playing piano, something his mom forced both of his older siblings to do, though he was the only one who stuck with it after the five years she required them to take. He picked up violin in orchestra, and decided to try his hand with percussion in his elementary school’s jazz band, continuing with both and going from the youngest child to play to first chair, eventually to dabbling in conducting as well. In his town, music was his domain, and no one contested it. His parents were proud, and summers were spent at Juilliard, or forming garage bands with anyone who had talent and time. Everything was great. Unfortunately it went to his head.
Though he was indispensable to the classical music programs he was in, he found himself slowly straying away from them, falling in love with alternative rock. At first he found a few people who wanted to form bands with him, but Gavin found himself constantly getting kicked out, or his bands dying before they could get anywhere. It never occurred to him that a large factor in it was that his feelings of superiority pushed people away, preventing people from wanting to work with him. He did keep trying, but by the time he graduated with his music production major, he was done. Gavin had spent a lot of time in composition and music theory classes, and though he wasn’t Mozart, he could write his own music. It became easier for him to work alone, alternative singer-songwriter style songs. He dabbled in guitar, but most of the pieces were performed on his piano, or by other musicians he hired to play with him. It was enough to keep him happy, and to get a few EPs out on iTunes, but he still didn’t have the record deal he was determined to get.
After college, one of the best his parents could send him to, Gavin found himself thirsting for more. He still wasn’t making money off his music, and it wasn’t fair for someone so talented to be so unknown. He was sick of New York, and though Los Angeles sounded nice, he preferred somewhere that had seasons. Settling for somewhere a little further north, he found himself in Harmony, California, with no job, money, or connections. It took him a year to set himself up, getting hired as a bartender so he wouldn’t have to take his parents hand outs. The burlesque club he worked at caused some people to look down on him, but it payed well enough, and he wasn’t about to turn down a lovely view. Gavin managed to get an apartment, finding it easy enough to scrape by, though he had to settle for an upright piano instead of the beloved baby grand he had at home. The one thing he didn’t have going for him was the music scene, but sporadic gigs here and there kept him going. A lucky break was bound to come eventually.
There are two things Gavin wants, not counting his piano from back home. He wants gigs, not opening acts at random bars, but concerts with fans screaming his name. And he also wants a band, though he won’t admit that. These days he’s just trying to get himself established as a musician of caliber, something he knows he deserves to be recognized as. He knows he’ll get noticed, he can almost taste the success. It’ll happen. Gavin won’t quit until it does.
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