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Shannon Savoie

After High School, I went to UMKC for about a year before dropping out to be a singer/songwriter and play music with a band. After a few bands and a few lessons in group dynamics, I began touring with bands. Two years later, I found myself in the lovely college town of Lawrence, Kansas. I decided to live in the quaint little town and complete college at KU as I continued writing songs and singing in bands. Eventually, I pulled together a band called "The Band That Saved the World"- a kitchy nine-piece funk/soul band that has toured the states, opened for Lauryn Hill and for the Moody Blues, and performed in France and Amsterdam. The band's most glorious moment was playing to over eight thousand people at the French International Music Festival in Belfort, France. The band still gets together to play occasionally to fans in Lawrence, but is over the touring thing, thank God!
I now write songs through a band called "Apollo 13". We've garnered the International Songwriting Award and the John Lennon Songwriting Award in Electronica and have written music for video games, commercials, and movie trailers.
I think I'll always be singing and performing in some kind of band, since it is what I love to do. Thanks to Dan Baldwin and John O'Conner for getting me in that first band back at O'hara!
In '98, I had this roommate who was a friend of one of my ex-girlfriends. We were friends and roommates for years before we started dating. After three years, I asked for her hand in marriage, to which she obliged, and after a little over a year engagement, we were married in a beautiful outdoor chapel. A few years ago, we bought a little three-bedroom house in "Larryville" as we call it, and have renovated it internally- rebuilding the kitchen and adding a master bathroom.
This June 20th, we'll have a C-section birth of our son, Keagan Oliver Savoie at about 1pm at Lawrence Memorial Hospital!
I'm applying to the Master's Program in Counseling Psychology (I want to work with kids in High School), I assistant teach at an elementary school three days a week, I make ends meat by working at the Brewery, and I am always doin the music thing.

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