Yvette Young Explained

Yvette Young
Birth Name:Yvette Young
Birth Date:28 June 1991
Birth Place:San Jose, California
Years Active:2009–present
Genre:Math rock, art rock, progressive rock
Instrument:Guitar, violin, piano, vocals
Associated Acts:Covet, Archaeologist, Analogue Dear, Mario Camarena, Scale the Summit, San Holo, Polyphia

Yvette Young (born June 28, 1991) is an American musician from San Jose, California.[1] [2] She is the front-woman for the math rock band Covet.[3]

History

Young is of Chinese heritage and comes from a musical family: her father Phil is a singer, accordionist, and composer, and her mother is an organist and accordionist. She began taking piano lessons at the age of four, and violin lessons at the age of seven. She graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Fine Arts[4] and began her career by posting videos of herself playing music in 2009.[5] In 2014, Young released an EP, Acoustics EP[6] [7] and further expanded her discography with the release of a split EP with Natalie Evans in 2015.[8] In June 2017, Young released a second EP Acoustics EP 2.[9]

Young used her background in piano to use polyphony on a guitar. She taught herself guitar by ear after being hospitalized for an eating disorder.[10] She notes, "I write with my ear, so I’m not really in a box in terms of chord shapes. And I don’t use [traditional] shapes at all, which freaks a lot of people out! I have a million different tunings I work in too so I didn’t really put in the time to learn every shape in every tuning, that would be ridiculous".[11] She uses a technique of singing the part out loud and then replicating it on guitar to decipher the parts of the songs she writes.

Young also creates unique illustration and art pieces, including work on some of her own guitars.[12] One of her paintings serves as the cover for her band's album Technicolor, released in June 2020.[13] She has also painted Willow Smith's guitar.[14]

Young has begun to teach a master course on guitar and finds that her style resonates with many of her students.[15] Before this she was mainly an art teacher, but by teaching while on tour she has become a music teacher.

Young was featured in a Super Bowl LV Commercial in February 2021 for Logitech.[16] She is also featured on their website as a partner with tutorials and tips on how to use their equipment.[17]

Young was featured in the song "Tongue Tied" on Gone Are The Good Days by Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!.[18]

Gear

As of 2019, Young plays two Ibanez Talman Prestige guitars with Seymour Duncan Five-Two single-coil pickups and custom sparkle finishes, and a 7-string, fanned-fret Strandberg that she has painted. During the 2020 NAMM Show, Ibanez announced her signature model, the YY10, a Strat-style Talman electric guitar. Her second signature model, the YY20, was released in late 2021; she calls it the YY20 OCS (Orange-Cream Sparkle).[19] She also plays a Yamaha A5R acoustic-electric guitar.[20]

Young plays through Vox AC amps. Her touring amp is an AC30.[21] On her Catharsis album, this was joined by a Roland JC-40.[22]

Discography

Solo discography

Extended plays

Singles

Covet discography

Albums

Extended plays

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2023-05-09 . Silicon Valley Rockers Covet Unleash a Genre Mash-up . 2024-10-30 . Good Times . en-US.
  2. Web site: 2023-12-15 . SXSW 2016 music lineup: Here's the complete list – The Mercury News . 2024-10-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231215164838/https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/03/10/sxsw-2016-music-lineup-heres-the-complete-list/ . 2023-12-15 .
  3. Web site: Harrington. Jim. SXSW Bay Area spotlight: San Jose's Covet delivers magical math rock. 22 February 2016. Mercury News. 19 July 2016.
  4. Web site: Salvatin. Lorisa. The Sound of Odd Numbers: Yvette Young. XPRESS Magazine. 19 July 2016. 31 May 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160531160323/http://xpress.sfsu.edu/xpressmagazine/2015/01/30/the-sound-of-odd-numbers-yvette-young/. dead.
  5. Web site: Carnes. Aaron. Guitarist, Yvette Young, Leads Math Rock Band, Covet, With Piano-Like Finger-Tapping. 17 December 2014 . Metro Silicon Valley. 19 July 2016.
  6. Web site: Release group "Acoustics EP" by Yvette Young. MusicBrainz. 2016-08-29.
  7. Web site: Glob. Cletus. ALBUM REVIEW: YVETTE YOUNG - ACOUSTICS (2014 EP). The AU Review. 19 July 2016. 12 October 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161012181535/http://www.theaureview.com/albums/yvette-young-acoustics-2014-ep. dead.
  8. Web site: Frosh. Joel. LITTLE L RECORDS INTRODUCES NATALIE EVANS. 2 November 2015. Circuit Sweet. 19 July 2016.
  9. Web site: Acoustics EP 2, by yvette young. yvette young.
  10. Web site: "I picked up the guitar when I was really sick in the hospital": Covet's Yvette Young. guitar.com. 21 December 2022.
  11. Web site: Laing. Rob. Yvette Young: "I jokingly call myself a hack because I figure everything out by ear and I don't really have a formula I follow". 2021-04-07. MusicRadar. 18 November 2019. en.
  12. Web site: Artwork of Yvette Young. Artwork of Yvette Young. en-US. 29 August 2016.
  13. Web site: Yvette Young Official Facebook Page. Facebook. en-US. 5 June 2020.
  14. Web site: Yvette Young designed the eye-popping artwork for Willow Smith's out-of-this-world St. Vincent signature model. guitarworld.com. 29 April 2021 . en-US. 21 December 2022.
  15. Web site: Yvette Young Guitar Lessons & Master Course. 2021-04-07. JamPlay.com. en.
  16. live. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211210/UpCIEY9xgTY. 2021-12-10. Logitech x Yvette Young (Extended) . YouTube.
  17. Web site: Logitech for Creators.
  18. Web site: "Gone Are The Good Days" Translucent Tigers Eye Vinyl . 2024-09-20 . Fearless Records . en.
  19. Web site: introducing... my signature YY20 OCS talman (not edible). YouTube. 2022-05-03.
  20. Web site: Always amazed at the resonance in harmonics on the @YamahaGuitars A5R!. Twitter. 2023-01-17.
  21. Web site: Rig Rundown - Covet's Yvette Young. YouTube. 2019-09-03.
  22. Web site: Yvette Young: "I'm really optimistic about the future of guitar. It's being used in a creative way and people don't know all the cool sounds you can get from it". guitarworld.com/total-guitar . Jenna Scaramanga. 9 May 2023 .

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