Introducing: Patrick Lew Band (PLB)
Introducing - Patrick Lew Band (PLB)
PATRICK LEW BAND (PLB) is an Asian-American rock band formed in San Francisco, California by singer, guitarist, YouTuber and multi-instrumentalist Patrick Lew Hayashi (born Patrick Allan Lew; November 15, 1985).
The band PLB was previously known under various guises and pseudonyms. Since 2016, the band PLB is largely an Internet-based rock band from San Francisco and mostly participates in home recording and occasional live performances locally.
The band also features a virtual band member and bassist named Madeline Lew, marketed as Patrick's younger sister in storyline. The band's bassist Madeline was created through modern smartphone apps such as FaceApp and Reface. Alongside, other digital special effects and sophisticated editing such as cosplaying as her character in the band.
He is currently an unsigned independent musician but he is distributing his music through his own label Lewnatic Records. Since mid-2020, the Patrick Lew Band (PLB) has expanded and reportedly reached 51 countries worldwide on the Internet in the modern era of underground music, despite having very little or no mainstream presence, marketing or promotion from the media. Most of PLB's credentials came thanks to the Internet through bloggers/curators and digital music magazines writing about the Patrick Lew Band.
THE HISTORY
Patrick was born on November 15, 1985 to a Chinese father and a Japanese mother of mixed descent. He mostly grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. His upbringing was rather tense and unstable, but Patrick often maintains that he had a happy childhood for the most part. To make up for his problems during childhood and while going to school, he turned to rock music, video games, professional wrestling and TV shows for comfort. And he often traveled with his family for vacations in foreign countries (such as Hong Kong) and other places common with tourists, such as Las Vegas and Hollywood.
Patrick Lew Hayashi has been active locally and online in music since 2001. He was playing in various short-lived local bands in San Francisco before pursuing his music in general with Patrick Lew Band
The Patrick Lew Band as we know it now started in 2015 as a home studio project where Lew would write songs or compose instrumental ideas and post them on social-media to see what comes out of it.
The band just returned to full-time status in 2020. And reached new heights. Stay tuned for more!
