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About the Band

We are Big Skinny, the end result of several failed attempts in the late sixties and early seventies by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture to create the perfect musical performer and revitalize the State's entertainment industry. Over the years they created four versions, each getting a little closer to the goal, but each, ultimately, lacking some crucial element. Then finally, in the late seventies, all their hard work paid off and Clay Aiken was born! The earlier genetic "proto-clays" as they came to be sarcastically called in the lab, were dispersed to the four corners of the US and placed with families willing to overlook the children's obvious lack of true superstar potential. Over time however, all four were mysteriously drawn back to their place of birth. Eventually, Bert Wartski, Jason Curtis and Matthew Saunders found teaching positions at Chapel Hill High School, a local school built to conceal the entrance of the secret underground genetics lab where they were created. Brennan Stephens was working nearby as an IT Consultant. (He was an early experiment, and always had a bad sense of direction.) It was here that Big Skinny was born.