ANDY CHASE

Songwriter, producer and musician Andy Chase made name for himself as one-third of the indie-pop outfit, Ivy. Prior to his lifetime music gig, Chase had an ordinary life. Chase was born and raised in Bethesda, MD. In the early 80s, he fell in love with Britain's new wave revolution: Talk Talk, The Smiths, Everything But the Girl, Prefab Sprout and American acts like Blondie and The Cars. Such music motivated Chase to start his own music thing; he bought his first Tascam Portastudio 1984 and began writing material alongside his keyboards. By the late 1980s, Manchester was pop...