From the land of the pilgrims & indians, AMERICA's HOMETOWN~ PLYMOUTH MASSACHUSETTS is Stephie Peeka & The SEEKING 7.

MOODY NEW ENGLAND ROCK N ROLL,
led by the new and unique female voice of SINGER/SONGWRITER/GUITARIST, STEPHIE PEEKA, SeeKing 7 is part of the ROcK n RoLL REVOLUTION.

In her teens, Stephie was asked to join on guitar for the all-girl band, BARACUDA. They were based in Las Vegas and relocation would have been required. "I was way too immature and insecure to do it then", she says. "It was enough at the time to just be asked to join. The call from their management came at a moment in my life when I really needed direction and I mean literally. I was in a deep depression at 16 and crying in my bathroom about my life and in a real dark place. Then Baracuda called and it was a gift from above of hope. Even tho it didnt go further than that, it was what I needed to pull me out of the dark. So thanks Baracuda!" Plus, her 2 biggest female influences had gone the path of the young all-girl bands early in their careers. "It was also encouraging to me since Suzi Quatro and Joan Jett both did the all-girl band early in their career. Seeing what came of it in each musicians lives, it wasn't meant to be for me."

"I stood in high school here, which I hated!...and took as many music and art courses as I could, art and drawing I did well in and also I played in youth hockey leagues (Plymouth & Hobomock) to squeeze through my jr and sr years of high school. And I just passed since I was absent so much!"

After high school (where she was scouted to play for Northeastern University's Women's Ice Hockey team), Stephie worked at Strawberries Records and started studying w/master guitar teacher, Tom Doyle. Tom's teaching is slated as one of the best methods in New England.
"I didn't really begin to understand it all until Doyle got me seeing music. He made me able to apply it on bass, keys, whatever. He even let me slide on paying him when money was tight, God Bless him!"

Stephie spent the next few years in numerous hospitals around Boston. She was mis-diagnosed for 20 years since an operation as a 1 year old. A then thought 'port-wine stain or hemangioma' was found to be a much more serious, 'Arterial Venous Malformation' on her right side of her face. "It took my 20's to deal w/the AVM. A few operations and procedures. The good part was I grew alot as a person. My spiritual part of me awakened."

She then began studying acting, of all things, in Boston at CP Casting and did numerous background acting roles and a starring role in a Mass College of Art film. Stephie earned her Screen Actors Guild card and is a member of SAG.

"All this time I spent acting and studying acting I found very therapeutic for my emotional stuff from my surgeries and facial issues. Weird since that business thrives on the superficial! I was also writing new music, 4 tracking it and developing during all that time of surgery, sabbatical, and repeating more surgery and the acting period."

"I began writing w/a friend who was a blues slide player and my pop/80's hook thing just clicked great w/what he did. Tom Tolman and I recorded an album under the name, 13th Ray. Jeff Armstrong< SEEKING 7'S DRUMMER, played phenominal avant gard drums on it. It was a very original mix of psychedelic, blues n rock and 80's hooky sensibility! We played around Boston for about a year as a trio w/myself on bass and vocals, Tom on slide baritone guitar, harp and vocals and Jeffy on drums. I learned alot!!!"

But her own songs were still waiting to be brought to the masses. "TOM/TBONE still PLAYS w/us on HARP some gigs. He is part of SEEKING 7 also. I then asked Jeff to play some shows w/me on my own songs and had a friend play bass in February 2003 (under the name, Peeka's Quest) we had our first gig", she says. "Jeff and I went into the studio in May 2003 and tracked the first album, 11 tunes in one day! Well, drums and guitar. I did vocals, bass and overdubs with Joe (Clapp) engineering after that. Sean (McLaughlin) had spent a few years engineering in Los Angeles and when he returned I asked him if he wanted to play bass w/us. He said yes and began playing out for the first album w/us as a trio, a powerful trio. Jeff and Sean are tremendous players and really make me sound good!"

"When we started to track the 2nd album on January 2nd 2005, Sean did the bass, Jeff the drums and me on guitar w/Joe engineering proper. This album is 15 songs (the 16th song is goofy outtakes from the studio sessions) of my journey and I am grateful all these guys were part of that. They are amazing musicians and great guys. That's the scoop on how the road began..."

She is joined by DRUMMER JEFF ARMSTRONG/VOX
and SEAN MCLAUGHLIN ON BASS
and now, JOE CLAPP ON GUITAR/VOX
that creates an evocative hybrid of ROCK N ROLL,
punk, alternative, and funky melodic songs containing passion and vision.

~~~SeeKing 7 have been playing in NEW ENGLAND since February 2003 around Boston clubs TT the BEARS in Cambridge, THE SKY BAR in Somerville, O'BRIENS in Allston, ABBEY LOUNGE in Somerville, HENNESSY'S near Fanueil Hall, Boston, THE CONTINENTAL in NEW YORK CITY, Upstairs@EDWARDS Hammersmith, LONDON ENGLAND.