Courtney Audain
A native of Trinidad West Indies, Courtney Audain has been performing since age three and at thirteen joined a steel band, which won national championships three out of the five years he played with them. During high school he also played with a pop group that became teen idols performing live every Saturday morning on a local television program. In 1979 Audain immigrated from Trinidad to New York and by 1981 he'd moved to Austin, TX, where he joined the popular reggae band Pressure. When the group disbanded in 1988, Audain joined the popular cover band and stage act TRIK TRAX (replete with dance routines and spandex), before recording and performing with Chris Thomas King (High Tone Records). Next a fateful audition brightened his future when Audain was selected for the coveted spot of bass player for Austin's popular group Timbuk 3, who shot into the national spotlight with the hit "The Future's Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades"). After Timbuk 3 disbanded in 1995, Audain spent the next two and a half years recording and performing with the internationally renowned group The Killer Bees. More recently, Courtney has been re-mixing for the Budapest supergroup and European MTV fave SEXIPLE and Austin favorite Sara Hickman, as well as touring and performing with artists such as Kurt Nuemann (The Bodeans), Ian Moore, Charlie and Will Sexton, Kris McKay, Root One, Papa Mali and Double Trouble.e-mail: audain@coinhead.com
