Jeremy McCoy (born January 19, 1978) is an American bass guitar player, known for playing on the road and in the studio with several artists around the world.

Beginning career

Born in

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, Jeremy spent his childhood and youth in the north-side suburban town of Gallatin. Jeremy's father, Larry McCoy moved the family there in the late 1970s, just before Jeremy was born, during his time playing piano for country music legend

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. Jeremy started playing bass at 12 years old. He went on to play for the Gallatin High School performance band for 3 years. After high school, he traveled throughout the Western United States and in Europe playing bass with the inspirational group

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. From Fall - 1999 to Spring - 2000, Jeremy attended

Lee University Lee University is a private Christian university in Cleveland, Tennessee. It was originally the Church of God Bible Training School, a small Bible institute founded in 1918 with twelve students and one teacher, Nora I. Chambers. The school grew ...

, where he played bass for the school's Campus Choir and was a member of Upsilon Xi. Jeremy left Lee University to play bass on the road with Gotee Recording artist

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from 2001 to 2006. During this time, Jeremy recorded bass on Jeff's "Saturate", "Light", and "Surrender" records. He has also done tours with Christian recording artists

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and Vicky Beeching.

Recent career

In November 2008, Jeremy began traveling with

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l recording artist

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. Jeremy would play bass for

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when Brent moved to Cello during the live performances. As of February 2009, Jeremy is playing bass on the road with

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artists The Fray. With The Fray, Jeremy has made television appearances on the

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, The Ellen DeGeneres Show,

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, Today (NBC program), and

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. Jeremy has also toured and/or recorded for other artists including - Kelly Clarkson, Mat Kearney, James Morrison, and James Blunt.

Discography

With Jeff Deyo (Gotee Records)

Saturate Saturate may refer to: * ''Saturate'' (Breaking Benjamin album), 2002 * ''Saturate'' (Gojira album), 1999 * ''Saturate'' (Jeff Deyo album), 2002 * " Electronic Battle Weapon 8", a song by The Chemical Brothers, a shorter version of which was re ...

(March 26, 2002) - All Tracks *

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(February 10, 2003) - All Tracks * Surrender (August 8, 2005) Live album - All Tracks

With James Morrison (Polydor Records)

*''

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'' (2008) - Track 4, "Please Don't Stop The Rain"

With OneRepublic (Interscope Records)

*iTunes exclusive "Hit 3 Pack: Stop and Stare - Video EP (The Stripped Sessions)" (2008) - Tracks 2 and 3

With Jonathan Lee (1CN Records)

*''Let Them Hear'' (2009) - All Tracks

Writing credits

(March 26, 2002) - "Let it Flow", "You Are Good" *

(February 10, 2003) - "Take Me To You", "Show The Wonder"

References

ASCAP

James Morrison - "Songs for You, Truths for Me" album credits

Jeff Deyo - "Surrender" album credits

Jeff Deyo - "Light" album credits
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