If you’ve ever had a dream that you and your buddies from high school would start your own band, jam, play gigs around the country and make records. And then years later, some female classmates would come to your concert and literally bow down…then the guys from Vanilla Whale are living that vision for you.

Nieuwoudt, Lucas, and Stewart originally met as students at Oak Ridge High School in the class of 2007 (go War Eagles!). They bonded by both participation on the football and basketball teams (Lucas’ dad was the pigskin coach) and a love of PlayStation 2 games. click here for complete story