Band Bio: Coffey Anderson

Coffey Anderson
Birth name	Coffey Anderson
Origin	Bangs, Texas, United States
Genres	Pop, R&B, Soul Country, Gospel
Years active	2002–present
Website	icoffy.com

Coffey Anderson is an American singer-songwriter originally from Bangs, Texas. His unique brand of country music blends in distinct influences from pop, contemporary Christian, gospel and soul that has attracted many. He came to fame through his You Tube videos and in 2008 took part in Nashville Star. He has released four albums: Southern Man, Me and You and the spiritual Christian albums Inspiration Vol. 1 and Worship Unplugged 1. He also has his own indie label Coffey Entertainment. A new album, the self titled Coffey Anderson was released on 28 September 2010 on Coffey Entertainment / Dream Records / Universal and entered the Billboard 200 at #134. In 2012, Anderson is unsigned now and working all over the world touring, recording in Los Angeles, CA, and still putting out records for hundreds of thousands of fans worldwide.

Career

Coffey Anderson is a graduate of Howard Payne University (HPU) where he played college basketball with HPU's Yellow Jackets. Coffey walked away from his first love, basketball, to focus on his music. After graduating in 2002, he moved to Los Angeles, California opting for a musical career and started composing his own material. Anderson became famous for his You Tube videos where he received wide following through lively renditions of original and cover materials. singing pop, country and Christian spiritual songs. He is very well known for his lively presentations addressing the watching public and explaining the guitar chords on his viral video segments on YouTube. Some of the most popular renditions include his compositions "Memphis", "Southern Man" "Rock and Roll Sally", "Can I?" and "Better Today". He has also resorted to Direct-to-Fan networks in the music community, launching his "Direct-to-Fan Live Sessions". He was briefly a contestant on season 2 of American Idol in 2003, making it to the Hollywood round. Anderson was also one of the 12 finalists on Nashville Star (season 6), broadcast nationally on NBC and repeats on American and Canadian CMT networks and a companion radio show entitled Nashville Star Radio featuring the week's performances from the television show, as well as exclusive in-studio performances and interviews with the finalists and judges.Coffey Anderson placed 4th overall. In addition to cover renditions, Anderson sang from his own compositions including "Southern Man" from the CD of the same title, and "Rock'n'Roll Sally."
Anderson has performed live more than 150 times in less than one-and-a-half years. On April 30, 2010, Coffey signed a record deal with Los Angeles label Dream Records. His self-titled album Coffey Anderson released on September 28, 2010 is his first charting album on the US Billboard 200 albums chart. The first single from the album is "You Are All I'm After" with an accompanying music video. He has followed it up with two new singles, "Seek Your Face" and "Sunshine".
In March of 2012, Anderson is independent, living in LA, working on a new pop singer songwriter album, and looking for a great record company to partner with.

Personal life

Coffey Anderson has a bachelor degree in Ministry from Howard Payne University (HPU). He also played basketball as a second class All American for the HPU Yellow Jackets team in Brownwood, Texas for period 1999-2002. As a basketball player, he had already been chosen All-State, All-West Texas Super Team and All-Area teams for two seasons along with being named District MVP for his junior and senior seasons before joining the Yellow Jackets.
He is married to hip-hop dancer Criscilla Crossland. He has one daughter, Savannah Jean, from a previous marriage and a son, Ethan Coffey-David, with his second wife, Criscilla Crossland Anderson.