ABOUT

Effie Zilch is not an individual. Effie Zilch is an idea, a muse, a guiding light - it’s also a rock and roll band. Band members Steve Wyreman and Evanne Barcenas have been making music together since they were teenagers living in Northern California. Though they are children of the 90s, they entrenched themselves in the sounds of San Francisco in the 60s - everything from Jefferson Airplane to Jimi Hendrix to The Staples Singers infiltrated their stereos and young minds. Throughout their formative years, music had always been lumitive in their lives: by age 8, Evanne was given her first guitar and Steve was sneaking into his older brother's room to practice on his. While Evanne nearly gave up playing guitar after realizing she wasn’t instantly as good as Bonnie Raitt, Steve meticulously listened to Hendrix songs and learned to play them by ear. After years of honing his craft and developing unquestionable talent, Steve began working with artists like Leon Bridges, Rihanna, John Legend and Jay-Z and spent years touring with The Rolling Stones, Richard Ashcroft and Mary J. Blidge. By 2019, Steve became a Grammy-award winning songwriter for Leon Bridges’, Bet Ain't Worth the Hand (and nominated again this year for Bridges’ 2021 Gold-Diggers Sound album). Evanne took a more circuitous route, diving instead into tech and teaching jobs. Luckily for Steve, after about ten years of putting down the pen, Evanne returned to her first true and tortuous love: music.