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Adam Carrington

Lead singer of band One Step Away

            With 13,808 likes on the bands Facebook page, and 2,217 friends on his own Facebook page, that’s a lot of fans. All of this started with a passion for music.

From walking around the house at the age of three singing to his favorite tunes, to being up on stage now and singing his own songs for his fans, making it into the music industry isn’t easy.

“I know everyone says, ‘without it I wouldn’t be able to live’ but seriously, it’s true,” lead singer for the band One Step Away, and junior at the University of New Hampshire Adam Carrington said.

            When describing what music means to him, Carrington makes it simple.

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DURHAM- “I know everyone says, ‘without it I wouldn’t be able to live’ but seriously, it’s true,” said lead singer for the band One Step Away, and junior at the University of New Hampshire, Adam Carrington.

            When he’s not in class, or doing homework, he is writing songs for his band known as One Step Away. After taking a year off to redefine their music, they are now ready to drop their latest EP, and impress their fans once again.

            Looking back to where it all started, Carrington was at a very young age when he found himself singing around the house, and not being able to stop. It was a passion, which pushed him to the idea of participating in the 3^rd grade talent show.

            “I would just not stop singing around the house, and I just loved it,” said Carrington.

            Going into high school, Carrington decided to join musical theater. “At first he was really shy about it,” said Anna Scapicchio, a junior at UNH, and a long time friend of Carrington. “Once he got more comfortable singing in front of people, I definitely thought he was going to do something with it,” she continued, “he was really talented.”

Musical theater was also where he met his current band mates, Terence Healy and Ben Trudeau. Declaring as One Step Away in 2006, the young boy band was ready.

             At the Boston Music Festival in 2008, One Step Away received the Alternative Rock Genre award for the performance of original songs.

A few years later, they went on to playing shows at the Hard Rock Café in Boston. In 2010 they met with some produces to create their first album. “The resulting album, For the Broken, has One Step Away poised on the brink of the big time,” according to the website Last.FM.

            By 2011, One Step Away was offered a chance to be part of the Jerry Lewis MDA telethon in Las Vegas. The live concert raised $61.5 million in six hours, according to an article written in International Business Times.

            The band was invited in 2012 to play at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts, for a summer concert known as the Kiss Concert, thrown by the radio station Kiss 108. One Step Away was able to sing the day away with the artists, Adam Lambert, Gym Class Heroes, Carly Rae Jepsen, and Flo Rida.

With many fans, there are 13,808 likes on the One Step Away Facebook page. Even though many fans express their love, one of their biggest fans according to Carrington, is a girl named Luka Hummel from the Netherlands. She reaches out to the band often to remind them of her love. “Thank you so much for everything guys! You changed my life,” said Hummel in a recent post.

With all of the opportunities that continue to come the bands way, Carrington finds is hard to balance music and school. Now that he is in his junior year at UNH, he wants to spend more time on music. “Music is the majority of my life, school is definitely second,” according to Carrington.

When describing what music means to him, Carrington makes it simple. “It’s kind of like a diary,” he said, “I turn to music for everything.” He describes it as relaxing, therapeutic, and really fun.

Within the past year though, the band has been reshaping their music, “As we got older and went through life changes, so did our music,” said Healy, the guitarist for One Step Away. Carrington describes that right now they are writing a lot, and have been using an EP they made from this past summer, to shop themselves around the industry.

In the meantime, they are continuing to write more songs, “not because we have to, we like to,” said Carrington.

As the band waits to hear back from industries about contracts, Carrington made a statement that seemed to sum up his feelings for music, “I could do it forever.