September 6, 2007

Leland grad to rock Santa Cruz

As lead vocalist for A Kiss Could be Deadly, a Huntington Beach-based dance/punk band, Lauren Baird, Leland High School class of 1999, assumes the role of the venomous, but alluring centerpiece who spins a web of lethal energy that is sure to ensnare the curious and cause spontaneous and euphoric spasms among the smitten.

The band recently signed with Metropolis Records, and is working on its first full-length debut album to be released in the spring.

The band recently signed with Metropolis Records, and is working on its first full-length debut album to be released in the spring. Meanwhile, their self-produced works can be downloaded at various Web sites available through Google and YouTube links.

Baird is the granddaughter of a former big band singer Patti Gene Baldridge. She has a degree in human development from UC-Riverside. According to PunkRock.org, Baird’s talents already are well developed at age 26.

“She has a really, really solid voice, a very powerful voice that rises over everything in the background. It is the perfect voice (for the band’s arrangements) powerful and present, gut not overbearing,” according to PunkRock. org.

Instrumentalists for the “A Kiss” are Danny DeLeon on drums, Kelly Cairns on bass, Chris Qualls on synthesizer and programming, and John Bennett on guitar.

“A Kiss Could Be Deadly” will appear in an all-age show at the 418 Project, on Saturday, Sept. 15 at 418 Front Street in downtown Santa Cruz.

For more information, log on to The418.org or call (831) 466-9770.

–By Karl Laucher