Independent Band/Artist Name:

Smart Apple (Teddie Tapawan)

Musical Style/Genre:

Alternative Rock mixed heavily with Funk, Blues, Grunge, Metal, Techno, and Rapcore

Geographical Origin:

East Coast, USA

Who Plays What?:

Teddie Tapawan performs all vocals and plays electric and acoustic guitars, bass, percussion, and sometimes, but rarely, keys.

Who's the Engineer?:

Teddie Tapawan

Background Information:

Recently released "Valley of the DogZ" CD in May 2001. Pre-release singles have already received glowing reviews and radio airplay.

Smart Apple will be featured in a book entitled, "The Long Road (the best music you've never heard)," to be released this year by Quiet Storm Publishing, which will be made available to every bookstore in the United States.

Released 6-song EP entitled "The Adventures of One..." in June 2000, which has received consistently good reviews throughout the music community.

Released CD Maxi-Single entitled "Project 0110 X-Spirit-Mental" in August 2000.

Radio airplay on 99.1 FM WHFS (Annapolis, MD), (97.9 FM) 98Rock (Baltimore, MD), 98.1 & 91.3 FM WFHB (Bloomington, IA), 95.1 FM WZZO (Allentown, PA), WBTY 530 AM (Waltham, MA), KUCI 88.9 FM (Irvine, CA), Trilogy Rock Radio (Barcelona, Spain), WFCF 88.5 FM (St. Augustine, FL), WXLV 90.3 FM (Shnecksville, PA), KRUJ 530 AM (Bel Air, CA), KALX 90.7 (Berkeley, CA), KCLA 99.3 FM (Hollywood/Los Angeles, CA), MUST 103.1 FM/107.3 FM (Etalle, Belgium), KCRH 89.9 FM (Hayward, CA), WVUA New Rock 90.7 FM (Tuscaloosa, AL), KJFC 89.7 FM (Los Altos Hills, CA).

Internet (Webcast) airplay on Tafcom Media's Internet Radio Free Kansas (IRFK), I.R.O.K. Internet Radio Oklahoma, Virtual Reality Radio (WVRR), Audio Ether Network's "Global Warming", MindSound Radio, Extreme X Radio, Cuenet Inet Radio, The Premier Artists Show, RealNetRadio.com, M4 Radio, Amp11 Rock Radio, New Artist Radio (Webzine Broadcasting), KNAC Uncharted Show, Numerous stations on Live365.com, The Boarding Pass Radio Show, Radio Muse, and BeOnAir.com in Ohio. The latter of which, has my songs running 24/7 in "hot-rotation".

My song "Morning Light" was a was one of 10 finalists out of approximately 600 entries in a contest sponsored by garageband.com to be submitted to New Line Cinema for possible inclusion on Adam Sandler's "Little Nicky" movie soundtrack.

Strong following on MP3.com (http://mp3.com/smartapple) and recently in the Top-40 overall with my song "All I Live Is You".

My song "I Drank Alot Today" was chosen by MP3.com officials to be on their multimedia CD-Rom titled "MP3.com's Free Sampler CD, Spring 2001". Smart Apple is featured on other CD compilations as well.

Featured numerous times as "Track/Artist of the Day/Week/Month" on the front-pages of Websites such as, Flixer (flixer.com), Band Solutions (bandsolution.com), Sonique (sonique.com), Energy MP3 (sprungnet.com), etc.

Recent musical collaborations with artists/bands such as Country artist, Ben Walter, and Chicago Blues duo, "The Mac Brothers".

In the late 80's, was lead guitarist and backup vocalist for Southern Maryland's "NITRIX" (genre: Metal/Thrash).

In the early 80's, was lead guitarist and backup vocalist for Maryland's "STRYKES" (genre: Metal/Rock).

All artwork for Smart Apple CD's, Websites, Shirts, Mugs, etc. are created by Teddie Tapawan (Smart Apple).

Current Activities:

Working on Full-Release CD entitled "Conformity", which should be completed by 4th quarter, 2008.

Currently running large national promo/campaign including the distribution of thousands of promotional CD's, national radio airplay, music videos, etc.