Alycea is a New York City based singer-songwriter who was born 22 years ago during a blizzard on the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona. Her last name, Ench, is the German word for Ankh, as in King Tut-Ankh-Amen, which is also the ansate cross – the Ancient Egyptian symbol for everlasting life. No great wonder then that her Dad’s side of the family tree is riddled with a collection of artists, dreamers and lunatics. Her Mom’s side of the family is 100% Irish American. They say her grandma could calm a screaming infant with her singing and her grandpa could always be counted on to tell a good tale. A bit of these qualities have surely rubbed off on the girl. Alycea’s voice is original and honest, and connects directly on an emotional level with her listeners. Her music springs organically from that fertile loam where American Folk Music intersects with American Rock & Roll. But it’s today’s America and not some bygone era. Along with folk, rock, blues and jazz, her songs reveal influences from the cultures of Latin America, India, Europe and the Caribbean. Leaving university after a couple of years, Alycea took up traveling, writing songs and playing guitar. She’s jammed with the local aborigines in the shadow of Ayres Rock, Australia, learned Spanish guitar while singing on the streets of Barcelona, and had a bar full of Austrians with thick Arnold Schwarzenegger-like accents swinging giant beer steins and singing the chorus to her anti-war song “Not Your Fool”. She currently resides in the Spanish Harlem section of NYC and has a devoted and growing fan base in the metropolitan area. In April of 2008, she produced the H.O.P.E. (Healing Our Planet Earth) Benefit Concert in Westchester County, New York, bringing together musicians and residents to increase environmental awareness and raise funds for organizations devoted to improving the environment.