Luke James Shaffer Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Luke James Shaffer is a full-time Singer, Guitarist, and Loop Station Specialist in the Washington, D.C. Metro area. He is a lead singer in the band Nation working with ELAN ArtistsAfter graduating Bowling Green State University he moved to New York City to pursue music. He lived there for 2 years making contacts and playing in some of New York's most popular singer/songwriter venues. While he was living there he auditioned for American Idol (Seasons 9 and 10). He had some success making it to the top 50 both years just one cut shy of being on the live show. After season 10 Luke recorded his first EP, Fresh EP in NYC.He won 1st place on an online competition called "Just Let Me Sing" in 2010. He wrote a song called "Marching On" which he got to record in Nashville, TN at The Record Shop. He also performed on Balcony TV while in Nashville.Luke took a chance on an online web series called "Take the Stage" with Johnny Wright in 2012 through a website called Yobi.tv. It is a reality based web series determined entirely by votes from viewers online. The co-judge and guest star of the show was major producer Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins. Both Johnny and Rodney saw something special in Luke's original song "Marching On" which Luke got to fly out to L.A. and re-produce with Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins. Luke took 3rd place overall on "Take the Stage".Luke released his first full-length studio album in December 2012 self titled "Brooklyn Love". It's 18 original songs all written and performed by Luke James. Luke used the fundraising website Kickstarter.com to raise the funds necessary to record the album. He was very blessed to have the support to raise more than enough money to fully fund the album and disc duplication and various fees associated with making an album. He wants to again thank everyone for the support! His band mates Rory Taylor (Bassist) and Mark Williams (Drummer) joined him on this album. It was recorded at Little Elephant Recording in Rossford, OH.

Perrysburg Oh

I helped open up Biaggi's almost 10 years ago and had worked there on and off for around 4 years before deciding to play music full-time in August 2011.