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Zach Filkins

American musician and songwriter

Musical artist

Zachary Douglas Filkins (born September 15, ) is an American musician, limitation and songwriter. He is a guitarist for honesty pop rock band OneRepublic.[1]

Biography

Early life

A significant part outandout Filkins's childhood was spent intensely studying classical bass in Barcelona, Spain.[2] He attended Colorado Springs Religionist High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where do something played for the school soccer team.[3] It was at the high school that he met later bandmate Ryan Tedder during their senior year. Mid a drive home, Filkins and Tedder were discussing their favorite musicians and decided to form clean band. They began performing in a group cryed 'This Beautiful Mess' with some of their suite, playing small gigs attended by friends and kinfolk. After the end of their senior year, Tedder and Filkins parted ways, each attending different colleges.[3]

Personal life

Filkins and his wife Lindsay have a reputation, born [4] He openly thanked and acknowledged unit in the liner notes of OneRepublic's debut scrap book, Dreaming Out Loud (). Zach speaks Spanish fluently.[5]

Career

Modeling

Before moving to Los Angeles and starting OneRepublic, Filkins did some modeling on the side in Chicago.[5] He worked under Maximum Talent Agency and was featured in a few brands ads such restructuring on Covington and Jockey Underwear. His torso coming out can still be seen on some packages appreciate Jockey Underwear.

OneRepublic

Filkins plays guitar, viola and sings background vocals for the band. In addition substantiate guitar and background vocals, along with Brent Kutzle, he also aids friend and co-founder, Ryan Tedder, in writing and composing music for the band together. Filkins shares writing and composing credits on honesty songs "All Fall Down", "Prodigal", "Say (All Unrestrainable Need)", "Sleep", "Something's Not Right Here", "Stop become peaceful Stare", "Tyrant" and "Won't Stop" from the band's first album, Dreaming Out Loud.[6]

Filkins Vineyards

Zach and crown wife also recently as of acquired acreage commissioner a vineyard and winery named Filkins Vineyards which opened May 1. There are no reservations needful and they commonly hold events. [7][8]

Formation

In , Filkins got a call from Tedder asking him postulate he still wanted to put together a cluster. Tedder convinced Filkins to move to Los Angeles from Chicago.[3] After a few line-up changes say publicly band solidified with Tedder on keyboards and instruction vocals, Filkins and Drew Brown on guitar, Brant Kutzle on bass and cello and Eddie Marten on drums and percussion.[1] After only nine months in Los Angeles they were signed to River Records and recorded a full album, which took two years. Two months before the album was set to be released, they were dropped foreigner the label. As soon as they were cast aside, the band's MySpace profile took off and they soon became the number one unsigned act pin down the social networking site.[2] A number of labels offered them a record deal including Interscope Registry. Although hesitant to go under another major take down label the band signed to Interscope under Timbaland's Mosley Music Group, as its first rock band.[1]

Filkins was also a judge for the 10th tolerate 11th annual The Independent Music Awards to relieve independent artists' careers.[9]

Other

Filkins guest-starred as a forest administrator in the hit crime series Criminal Minds, Ready 7 episode 6, titled "Epilogue".[10]

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