Kevin Matisyn (born September 19, 1979) is the lead singer for the rock band

Parabelle Parabelle ('para' meaning 'to resemble; 'belle' meaning 'beauty' in French) is a Canadian Rock music, rock band that initially formed in 2007 as a side project by Kevin Matisyn, the former lead singer of Evans Blue, and Kenneth Nixon of Framing H ...

. He was the former the vocalist for

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Biography

Matisyn started listening to

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in his early teens and began his first band while at the age of sixteen. In March 2005, he co-founded the band, Evans Blue, which spawned two albums, ''

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'' and ''

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''. There is also a bootleg Evans Blue collection entitled ''The Stage is Set for the Revival of Anthem'' that consists of a number of unreleased demos and an unofficial acoustic compilation entitled ''The Unplugged Melody''. As of July 28, 2008 he was no longer in the band. He published a post on his MySpace page saying he is "Formerly of Evans Blue". This was confirmed by Evans Blue on their MySpace page. In 2007, Matisyn formed the band

. The band has released five albums, '' A Summit Borderline/A Drop Oceanic'' (a double album), ''Reassembling the Icons'', ''Your Starry Eyes Will Never Make Us Even'', ''The Kill Plan'', and ''The Rose Avail''. Matisyn and Parabelle have also released two acoustic compilations, ''These Electric Pages Have Been Unplugged'' and ''Air''. In 2013, Matisyn announced that his solo album ''Alice-Ofelia-Kira'' was to be released sometime in 2013. This album was released digitally January 7, 2014. The album's physical release was set for February 11, 2014.

Discography

Solo

* Alice-Ofelia-Kira (2014)

Evans Blue

*''

'' (2006) * ''

'' (2007) * ''The Unplugged Melody'' (2007) * ''The Stage is Set for the Revival of an Anthem'' (Unreleased)

Parabelle

* ''A Summit Borderline/A Drop Oceanic'' (2009) * ''Reassembling the Icons'' (2010) * ''These Electric Pages Have Been Unplugged'' (2011) * ''Your Starry Eyes Will Never Make Us Even'' (2012) * ''Air'' (2013) * ''The Kill Plan'' (2016) * ''A Summit Borderline'' (Remastered) (2016) * ''State By State EP, Vol. 1'' (2016) * ''The Rose Avail'' (2019)

References

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