Eric Lige has garnered praise for his resounding baritone/tenor singing voice. Having grown up in the South (Alabama & Louisiana), his upbringing exposed him to various cultures and settings.
Lige has toured or performed in nearly every State within the USA and his music has landed him in Europe, Canada, and the West Indies recording and performing on international stages.
Eric Lige has performed in the National Cathedral in Washington D. C., Madison Square Garden in New York City, throughout Greece transcending cultural barriers and inspiring hearts and minds along the way.
Eric Lige's freshman CD "Surrender" is due to release June 2, 2009.
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Eric Lige Bio
ERIC LIGE has garnered praise for his resounding baritone/tenor singing voice. "He delivers with great passion and conviction." This has become a common phrase that has been reiterated by many of his listeners such as Chris Ward, Founder of ARC Productions near Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was Ward who gave this budding singer his musical start while he was fresh out of high school.
Lige was born in Birmingham, Alabama and moved to Lake Charles, Louisiana with his family at the age of seven. He was a shy young man who hardly participated in any extracurricular activities. However, his upbringing exposed him to various cultures and settings, one of which is the church - a pillar of many Southern African American communities. There were times during his childhood where he felt like his family was the sole supporter of their church because it seemed as if they lived there day and night! As grueling as it was for young Lige to get up early and go to bed late, he was always drawn in by the spontaneous sounds of rhythmic beats and strong voices often heard penetrating the thin walls of the often unstable storefront foundations his church occupied. It was then and there that Mr. Lige found his passion. It was there that he began to lay down the foundation for the songs that he sings and writes today. Layered within that musical basis was his exposure to his Grandmother's Rhythm and Blues, his predominantly white high school's Alternative Rock and Oldies, and Classical & Jazz both discovered during his college years. Some of his favorite artists include India Arie, Aretha Franklin, Dave Coz, Babbie Mason, Fred Hammond and anyone from the Winans family.
In 1993, Eric Lige joined a national touring music and drama production company. The production toured in towns he had never heard of such as Altoona, Pennsylvania; Gobles, Michigan and Kokomo, Indiana. He was honored that those audiences allowed him to get his feet wet as a performer and find his footing in the arts. Because of those experiences he has been performing at the professional level ever since. Each experience served as a personal triumph to Mr. Lige who did not utter a single note on stage until the age of 17 due to severe stage fright.
The responses of those audiences must have been a sure sign that Eric Lige was destined to impact lives with his musical abilities. His talents have landed him in 41 of the 50 States and his passion has taken him - a small town singer - to big time performances in places such as The National Cathedral in 2000 and before an audience at Madison Square Garden in 2002 while touring with a band called Legacy.
As a songwriter, voice actor and vocalist, Mr. Lige has entertained audiences nationally and internationally. He has performed in theatres, civic arenas, and churches in large cities across the nation such as New York, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle and San Diego. He has begun to make the world his stage as he is discovering new territory by crossing international borders into places like Toronto, Windsor, Vancouver, and British Columbia, CANADA. (2002-2003), as well as having performed in the CARIBBEAN (1997-1999) and throughout GREECE (2002, 2006, 2008, 2009).
Eric Lige lives in San Diego, California and is a Programming Arts Director and Worship Leader at Community Bible Church in Mira Mesa, California.