Carter Russell

Carter Russell (born March 15, 1994) is an American singer-songwriter from Walnut Creek, California. Originally a pianist, Carter took up guitar his freshman year of high school under the guidance of Bay Area Music Instruction founder, Gary Valeriani. After several months of lessons, Carter parted ways with his instructor to focus on school and experiment with his growing fondness of acoustic music. To further his musical abilities, he took several month's worth of voice lessons from Ronald Llenado of Under The Sun Studios to hone his burgeoning vocal skills. During this period, he adopted the pseudonym "X-Static" and began recording on handheld recorders. After finishing work on his first demo CD entitled Ice, Carter upgraded to...