Biography

Born in Somerville, MA, Sandy Lee Casey Sandy began playing country and western music professionally at Johnny D's in Somerville, MA at age fifteen. At eighteen she was featured in a number of country bands in New England and performed in Salisbury, ME and Newburyport, MA on a regular basis. She also had a weekly gig as a soloist at a club in Cambridge, MA called "The Original".

Sandy joined a pop/rock band called the Chasers who became a successful local MA cover band. She switch off playing drums for a few songs while the drummer came out to sing. Good times...

Sandy co-founded her next band "Sandy Starr" with her soon to be her now former husband John DeChristopher (recently retired worldwide artist relations manager for Zildjian cymbals). The band had great success as one of the better Top 40 cover bands in the New England area and then they played full-time all over the US for a few years. That was an experience that Sandy thinks that every musician needs to feel what it means to be a true musician (Hungry!).

Over the years Sandy formed and recorded with several notable bands. She had the luck and privilege to sing background vocals during the Metallica "Master of Puppets" sessions in 1985 at Amigo Studios where she was working with Michael Wagener and other amazing team members. She was critically acclaimed as a featured artist on the Rooster Teeth Red vs. Blue and RWBY animated series soundtrack projects.

Sandy joined a funk/dance band called FM. It was a fantastic experience, but the genre was different than anything she had done before and didn't feel right. She spent some time in a dance band called Cheers which featured her and another talented woman named Diana up front. They played to sequences of top 40 tunes which was great fun, but the stress of playing clubs, working full time and an expanding family put things on hold again.

Sandy finally found the work, family, performance balance with a band called "DoubleVision". DoubleVision was the premier Boston wedding band. The material was vocally challenging so she knew it was perfect for her immediately. That chapter ended after more than a decade, but all the members became close friends and continually stay in touch.

Sandy rejoined some of her Cheers band mates in the early 2000's and they got back into the sequencing thing and the formation of great Top 40 dance band named "The Synergy Band" or Synergy for short. That band has seen several changes over the last couple of years since Sandy moved to CA in 2014, but when Sandy is back in Massachusetts they get Sandy up on the stage the joint starts rocking' like it was yesterday.

Sandy brought her talent and experience to the studio to work with Jeff Williams and their daughter Casey Lee Williams on the recording and writing of songs for the soundtracks of Red vs. Blue and the critically acclaimed RWBY animated series from Rooster Teeth. In the summer of 2012 Sandy, her daughter Casey Lee (vocals), her son John DeChistopher, Jr. (drums) and Jeff Williams went out to RTX 2012 in Austin, TX to perform their work live with he rest of the very talented band for thousands of enthusiastic Red vs. Blue fans.

Sandy performs these days at various venues in the Temecula Valley and San Diego area.

Her trademark rich vocals deliver the dynamics, depth and emotion that make her performances an experience.

- IMDb mini biography by: David Feuerstein