Millard Powers

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Biography

Avery Millard Powers III (born December 24, 1965 in North Carolina) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and grammy nominated recording engineer.

Early History

Powers studied piano for six years, and played trumpet in his middle school and high school bands for five years.
He went on to study Guitar Performance and Communications at University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Majosha

Majosha was a band formed around early 1988 with Ben Folds on bass, Powers on guitar, and Dave Rich on drums. They released a four song EP, Party All Night: Five Songs About Jesus, none of which were about Jesus. After gaining some popularity, they released their first album, Shut Up and Listen to Majosha in 1989.

The Semantics

The Semantics, a power-pop band formed by Millard Powers and Will Owsley, featured Jody Spence and Ringo Starr’s son, Zak Starkey. Ben Folds appeared on drums on two demos which were not released and on keyboard at a few live performances. Folds was not involved with the creative aspects of the group. The band was signed to Geffen Records, and their album Powerbill was released in Japan in 1993.

Solo Album

Powers released a self-titled solo album in 2001. Powers played all instruments (bass, guitar, drums, keyboard), recorded, produced, mixed, and engineered the album himself in his apartment in Nashville, Tennessee. No other artists were featured on the album.

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  • brellaman

    Millard, You have gone far. Oh, what can I say, but... Beasty Boys

    27 Oct 2009 Reply