Sixpence None The Richer

• Formed: 1993
  
• Member Names: Leigh Nash, Matt Slocum, Justin Cary, Sean Kelley, Rob Mitchell, Jerry Dale McFadden
  
• Band Name: "Sixpence None The Richer" taken from a passage in C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity

DISCOGRAPHY:

2002   Divine Discontent (Reprise)
1999   Collage: Portrait of Their Best (Flying Tart)
1997   Sixpence None The Richer (Squint)
1996   Tickets For A Prayer Wheel [EP] (Flying Tart / R.E.X.)
1995   This Beautiful Mess (Flying Tart / R.E.X.)
1994   Fatherless & The Widow (Flying Tart / R.E.X.)

SONGS APPEAR ON:

2000   Snow Day soundtrack with cover of La's song "There She Goes"
2000   Here On Earth soundtrack featured both "We Have Forgotten"
           and Sixpence's cover of Sam Phillips' song "I Need Love"
2000   Today Presents: The Best Of The Summer Concert Series
           (NBC's Today show) with the song "Us" from their
            yet-to-be-released album (live performance recorded).
2000   Bounce soundtrack with "Love" re-mix from their album,
           Sixpence None The Richer
2000   Bounce soundtrack with "Need To Be Next To You" (Nash solo)
          (written by Diane Warren, produced by Matt Serletic
           [Matchbox 20, Santana/Rob Thomas hit "Smooth"] )
1999   Girl Interrupted movie trailers featured "There She Goes"
1998   She's All That soundtrack with "Kiss Me"
1996   Never Say Dinosaur (various artists) (Arranger)

APPEARANCES:

8/2000     NBC's The Today Show
1/2000     VH1's Hard Rock Live
12/1999   VH1's Before They Were Rock Stars
11/1999   The List
11/1999   CNN's WorldBeat
8/1999     The Tonight Show With Jay Leno performing "There She
                Goes"
7/1999     Lilith Fair Tour, mainstage
7/1999     Late Show With David Letterman
7/1999     Late, Late Show With Craig Kilborn
7/1999     Saturday Night Live
2/1999     Late Night With Conan O'Brien
3/1999     VH1's Woman First
3/1999     Live With Regis and Kathie Lee
3/1999     The Tonight Show With Jay Leno performing "Kiss Me"
1998        Lilith Fair Tour, side-stage in Nashville

AWARDS:

2000      Dove Award for Group Of The Year
2/2000   Sixpence None The Richer certified Platinum
2000      ASCAP Songwriter to Matt Slocum for "Kiss Me"
2000      Grammy nomination for "Kiss Me" in Best Pop Performance
              by a Duo or Group with Vocal
6/1999   Sixpence None The Richer certified Gold
3/1999   "Kiss Me" single certified Gold
             R&R magazine's No. 1 "Breakthrough Artist" for 1999 in the
             CHR/Pop, Hot AC, and AC for "Kiss Me"
1999      Grammy Nomination for Best Gospel Rock album, Sixpence
              None The Richer
1996      Dove Award for Best Alternative/Modern Rock Record,
             This Beautiful Mess

"KISS ME" PHENOMENON:

• Columbia Records exec., John Kalodner, hears Sixpence perform a showcase at the Viper Room in LA. Columbia Records begins promoting "Kiss Me" at Top 40 (11/1998). The label receives single rights and Kalodner and Miramax Film's Randy Spendlove become instrumental in placing "Kiss Me" as the lead song in the movie She's All That.
  
  
• "Kiss Me" enters Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart nearly a year after the release of Sixpence None The Richer
  
  
• Peaks at #2 on The Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts. On Airplay Monitor's charts, the song hit #1 on the top 40 mainstream radio chart and #2 on the top 40 adult chart (6/1999).
  
  
• Becomes the #1 video on VH1 (5/1999).
  
  
• Video gets added to MTV's "120 Minutes" and receives regular airplay at M2. It later achieves heavy rotation at MTV, VH1, M2, The Box, JBTV and Much Music.
  
  
• #1 pop song in the U.S. (5/1999).
  
  
• #1 most-played song in 11 countries, including the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Japan, and Israel (6/1999).
  
  
• Wins 2000 ASCAP Award for "Most Performed Song From A Motion Picture".
  
  
• Wins 2000 Movieline Young Hollywood Award for "Best Performance On A Soundtrack".
  
  
• Song is placed on Dawson's Creek show and soundtrack.
  
  
• Song is broadcast on Trinity (April '99), MTV's The Real World (December '99) and Daria (April '99), The Young and the Restless (February '99), Grapevine (October '99), The Bold & The Beautiful (February 2000), Get Real (October '99), NBC's Providence (April '99), Days of Our Lives (March '99), and in an advertisement for Jesse (October '99)
  
  
• Played to an audience of more than 200 million viewers during the BBC telecast of Britain's Prince Edward's royal wedding (6/1999). The track was featured as the Prince and his new bride exited the chapel, over a montage of scenes at the end of the broadcast. A representative of the Royal Family contacted Squint requesting permission to use the single during the telecast.

"THERE SHE GOES":

• The La's cover tune is part of Sixpence's regular live performance line-up since early '98 and gets great responses from the audience. The band performs the song on Nic Harcourt's "Morning Become Eclectic" at the KCRW studios in Santa Monica, CA. Radio stations begin playing bootlegged copies of the song. Squint, looking for their follow-up single, quickly sends the band into the studio to cut the track.
  
  
• Performed live by Sixpence on Canada's Much Music Network. (April 99)
  
  
• At least Top 30 of Billboard's Hot 100
  
  
• At least Top 10 of R&R and Billboard Monitor formats (Hot AC, Modern AC, and Pop Alternative)
  
  
• In rotation on VH1's Top 10 countdown
  
  
• "Most Added" at Alternative and Adult Rock
  
  
• Used in television's Time Of Your Life (December '99), Great Pretenders (February 2000), and promos for the National Football League (November '99)

MISCELLANEOUS:

• Contributes track to Los Straitjackets release (June 2001)
  
  
• "Innocente (Falling in Love)" written by and featuring Leigh Nash for the Delerium "Poem" CD rockets up the Billboard Dance Charts to #3 (April 2001)
  
  
• Nash, debuted as the worldwide model for the "Rock Superstar" campaign for cosmetic company Urban Decay'sspring and summer product line (2001).
  
  
• Sixpence contribute the song "Us" to Today Presents: The Best of Summer Concert Series CD. Proceeds from the sales of the record helped Katie Couric raise money for the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance (NCCRA) (August 2000)
  
  
• Band leader Matt Slocum and lead singer Leigh Nash invited by NARAS to announce Grammy Nominees at the New York City press conference (January 2000)
  
  
• Slocum, who also happens to be a trained cellist, is invited to perform on Natalie Imbruglia's mega-hit album Left Of The Middle.
  
  
• "I Can't Catch You" featured in television's Time Of Your Life (December '99)
  
  
• "Love" featured in television's The Opposite Sex (October '99)
  
  
• "Easy to Ignore" featured in television's Brooklyn South (April '98)