Blake Preston Harnage (born November 26, 1988) is an American songwriter, music producer, multi-instrumentalist and composer. He has written, produced, engineered, mixed or performed on songs for

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PVRIS Pvris (pronounced "Paris" and stylized PVRIS) is an American pop rock act formed by multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and producer Lyndsey Gunnulfsen. Over her decade-long career, Gunnulfsen has released three studio LPs: ''White Noise ...

Hands Like Houses Hands Like Houses are an Australian rock band from Canberra. Formed in 2008, the group is currently signed to Hopeless Records and UNFD. Their debut album, ''Ground Dweller'', was released on 13 March 2012 and charted at number 141 on the Bil ...

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, With Beating Hearts, and others.

Life and career

Harnage was born in Stuart, Florida. Immersed in music throughout his childhood, he has grown up under the influence of many musical styles. Starting guitar at a young age, Harnage has also received classical voice training. At age 14, Blake's first group performed locally, highlighting his blues guitar improvisation. Throughout high school, he played with various post-hardcore bands before starting

VersaEmerge Versa (stylized as VERSA) was an American rock duo formed in Port St. Lucie, Florida, in 2006, as VersaEmerge. The group consisted of Blake Harnage (guitar, vocals, and programming) and Sierra Kay (lead vocals). They had a revolving line-up, their ...

in 2006.

Versa and VersaEmerge

In 2007, Harnage founded the

experimental rock Experimental rock, also called avant-rock, is a subgenre of rock music that pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre. Artists aim to liberate and innovate, with ...

band

with singer

Sierra Kay Sierra Kay Kusterbeck (born December 18, 1990), better known as Sierra Kay, is an American singer-songwriter and model. She rose to prominence as the lead vocalist of the rock band VersaEmerge. Early life Kusterbeck was born and raised in St. ...

Port St. Lucie, Florida Port St. Lucie is a city in St. Lucie County, Florida, United States. It is the most populous municipality in the county with a population of 204,851 at the 2020 census. It is located southeast of Orlando and north of Miami. The Port St. Lu ...

. Harnage and Kusterbeck began creating music under the simplified name

in 2013. Departing from the band's previously energetic rock sound,

showcases deep electronic and atmospheric sounds.

Producing

Blake Harnage has done production on many releases including VersaEmerge's 2012 release ''Another Atmosphere Preview'' EP, as well as the more recent release from

- ''Neon'' EP. In 2013, Harnage began work on debut album from

entitled

White Noise In signal processing, white noise is a random signal having equal intensity at different frequencies, giving it a constant power spectral density. The term is used, with this or similar meanings, in many scientific and technical disciplines ...

. He and

vocalist

Lynn Gunn Lyndsey Gerd Gunnulfsen (born March 15, 1994), usually known by her stage name Lynn Gunn, is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Gunn is best known for fronting the American rock band Pvris. She has also collaborated with ...

completed the writing and recording of

at his home studio in Port Saint Lucie, Florida, and at a former church-turned recording studio in

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. Harnage contributed to

' 2016 album

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as a writer and engineer. In 2017 Harnage produced PVRIS' sophomore album

All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell ''All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell'' is the second album by American Rock music, rock band Pvris. It was released August 25, 2017. The first single "Heaven" was released April 30, 2017. Background and recording On July 27, 2016, Lynn Gun ...

. Harnage has also worked with artists such as

and Minke.

Composing

In 2014, Harnage composed a piece for the independent documentary film Of Many, produced by

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. Premiering at the 2014

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, the film examined struggles between the Jewish and Muslim communities. In addition to

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, the film was also screened at the 2014

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Film Festival, a special event at the United Nations and more.

Discography

Singles

Non-singles

Albums

Versa

Studio albums with Versa

Fixed at Zero ''Fixed at Zero'' is the first and only studio album by American experimental rock band VersaEmerge, released through Fueled by Ramen on June 22, 2010. The album was made available for pre-order on iTunes and the Fueled by Ramen store on May 11 ...

(2010)

EPs with Versa

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Harnage, Blake 1988 births Living people Versa (band) members Guitarists from Florida American rock guitarists American male guitarists Lead guitarists