I was born Alan Quandt, 2-14-1981 at the old Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, IN.
I lived on the northside of town for half my childhood until 4th grade my family moved next to Waynedale. As a kid I tired several sports including basketball, baseball, football, diving, and swimming. The only sport I was any good at was swimming, i did that for about 6 yrs, before moving away from sports and into music.
I had always been involved in art in someway but never new i would have such an interest in music.
I went to St. Paul Lutheran from k-3rd grade.
Then moved out south and went to Indian Village Elementary for 4th and 5th grade.
Around this time I started taking piano lessons, though I wanted to play drums, my parents made me take piano first.
Then for 6th Grade I attended Kekionga Middle School.
I was in the orchestra there for a semester. Before moving to Memorial Park Middle School for 7th and 8th grades where I was in their award winning concert band in the percussion section.
It was around this time period that I really started getting into computers and the art you can make with them. though we had very limited technology at my house at the time I learned everything I could with what i had.
Fort High School I attended Southside HS for one semester before transferring to Concordia for the remainder of that year as well as my Sophomore year. Then I dropped out.
I decided to go back next year where I attended Elmhurst HS. I finally go a decent computer, and my first professional keyboard. I was 17yrs old. Then I dropped out again before completing my Junior year. I also adapted the alias Kim Aliz for my electronic music.
Yes that's real.
My first Dell.
Shortly after dropping out I moved out with some friends to a quadplex home over in the lakeside area then moved around for the next year or so. During that time I decided to take my GED then my SAT, then said f**k it and when I wasn't partying my ass off I attended college for @ IPFW for the next 3 yrs.
During that period my friends all decided to move back to Indian Village at my best friends house, now known as "The House" to all of us as well as the waynedale crew.
All my roommates at the House.
On my parents boat
At dinner with the folks.
Then after I did all i could do at IPFW at the time, I took a chance (and a hefty loan) and moved to FL and attended Full Sail, in Orlando.
Buying my first groceries for my place in FL.
Putting my desk together at my new apt in FL.
While in school I joined a rap/rock group with my brother Carl and my friend Joe. We called ourselves Vulgar Virtue to Society.
Practice at our Apartment
A show that we flew back to Fort Wayne to play at Sunset Hall for New Years.
The first week I was in Orlando I met a girl and dated her the whole time I was in school and had a baby with her the day before I graduated college.
Crystal and I when I first met her.
Me and Dinah the day she was born.
After school my new family and I moved home to Fort Wayne. My FL band broke up since our guitarist moved to New York (we he still is to this day). I started and Org. called FortSAC with a few other local musicians we brought Sunset Hall back to life and ran the hall for a little over a year. At the same time I answered an ad on FWM.com for a drummer, and joined the hard rock band Severence. Severence went on to Make it to the X Essentials CD in 2004 and was nominated as Best New Performer in the Whatzup Whammy awards of 2004.
At the same time I joined Severence, I started something new with my brother Carl. He had some idea for a new song of sorts. This band went through a handful of members for the next year before even playing a show. We finally ended up with the current line up we have now. We decided to call our band Pleasing Melani, after and argument with our #1 fan about his ex-girlfriend (melani) not liking a cover song we were going to play, we were like "What are we Pleasing Melani now?" it stuck.
Now that FortSAC is on Hiatus and I have become an administrator of FWM. My Daughter is now 2 yrs old and lives with her mother back in Fl for the time being. I am still in Pleasing Melani playing all of the place and I am still composing music for the Kim Aliz project.
Me visiting FL for her 2nd b-day.
