Peven Everett is an artist and voice of the generation.
He was Born in Harvey, Il. outside of Chicago to a musical family.
He was a toddler when he began playing objects as instruments and shortly there after acquired a drum kit from his mother.
In grammar School he began playing music in the band under the direction of Sherman, John Weber,and David Eanes. He helped his band earn titles maintaining first chair in multiple instruments. He also taught his senior pupils in grade levels and played with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie and Betty Carter.
Having gotten a perfect score on his exam at Merit the Carl Fischer Music Academy, Peven was awarded a full Scholarship to The Berkley school of Music at the age of seventeen. He played his first professional gig at Carnegie Hall and subsequently moved to New York to join Betty Carter performing and acting as her music director over seeing other musicians his senior. New York also gave Peven the opportunity to play with Wynton Marsalis appearing in his documentary Marsalis on Music as well as featured in the book by the same name. He toured with Buclshot Lefonque Brandford Marsalis’s band. It was at this time that Peven was featured in th...
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