Phil - Bass - Founding member and head Cheeze
	I didn't really enjoy playing music at an early age. I guess it took about a year of beatings before my parents realized that I just wasn't going to be a part of the Cheeze Family horn section. Then one day I picked up my brother's bass guitar. I was on that "bottom end" like Oprah on a canned ham. Some of my musical influences have been: Guy Lombardo, Electric Prunes, Stawberry Alarm Clock, and, of course, the Cheeze Family Singers. You might remember me from those early live Cheeze Christmas specials. I was the disruptive "problem child" in the back that always seemed to be getting his ears boxed.
		Chip - Guitar - Founding member
			I've had an instrument in my hand as far back as I can remember. I also started playing the ukelele really young as evidenced by the picture. Except for a short-lived period of obsession with breeding canaries, I concentrated on my "uke" for a number of years until I could finally get through the first stanza of "My Old Kentucky Home". I switched to the guitar sometime around the late 70's when I got the call to "join the Cheeze".
		Theo - Keyboard - Founding member
			Unfortunately, I've never have had the least bit of interest in music. Mom and Dad Cheeze literally had to shackle me to the piano to get me to practice. Of course I wasn't happy about that, but, in the end, it payed off. At the age of 9, I won the county "Lil Piano Wiz" competition. My rendition of "Flight of the Bumblebee" played double-time really wowed the judges. I immediately hired an attorney and became an emancipated minor. After 7 years of making a living playing rudimentary jingles for local radio ads, I finally reconciled with the family and joined the band.
		June - Vocals - 10 years as a Cheeze Sister
			I was born and raised in Las Vegas. I always dreamed of being in show biz. At 9, I got a job as a runner for the pit boss at the Sands Hotel. I got to know all the big celebrities; Frank, Sammy, Dean, etc. One day as I was running a voucher for Peter Lawford to the chip window, I just started singing to myself. I didn't think anyone could hear me. Standing at the window, I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around to see Frank. "Wow, sweetheart, you've got koo-koo, crazy talent!" It was then that I decided to devote my life to music. The Cheeze experience is the culmination of that dream!
		Bev - Drums - 9 years as a Cheeze Sister
			Unlike all the other band members, I was not born into the Cheeze family. While on their 1969 tour of Estonia, staying the night in a boarding house in Haapsalu, Papa Cheeze heard a very rhythmic beating on the wall coming from the next room over. I had been angry with my Mother for her refusal to profer a second helping of suitsukala (smoked trout). My frustration took the unusual form of this wall beating. It happened that the Cheeze band's regular percussionist had that night come down with a case of dropsy. So, Papa took a crazy chance and knocked on our door. Negotiations with my mother went amazingly easily. I was hired for 20,000 Estonian kroons (3 dollars) a month.
		Patti - Vocals - 5 years as a Cheeze Sister
			I think I probably sang before I could even talk.  I was born into a very musical family and was exposed to a lot of different styles of music, anything from classical to rock 'n roll.  Early influences would have to be Captain Kangaroo, the Beatles, Simon & Garfunkle, Sly & the Family Stone, Tina Turner, Barbra Streisand and Carly Simon.  I absolutely love singing and performing, especially when everyone is dancing and having a great time.  In my free time I'm actually pretty boring -- I like to work the NY Times Crossword Puzzles, and hang out with my six cats, who usually leave the room when I practice new songs (everybody's a critic!).  They seem to prefer New Age music ....go figure ....
		Tom - Vocals - 3 years (the newest Cheeze Brother)
			Early life as a Cheeze Family member was downright unpleasant for me.  I was ostracized by my older Cheeze Brothers and Sisters and was prohibited from the family music business.  They said I sounded too "ethnic" for the "Cheeze Sound". I thought "the hell with them", and, at the age of 9, I moved out of the Cheeze Family compound.  I toured the south playing the Vaudeville circuit.  My renditions of these old favorites: " I'm So Miserable Without You, It's Like Having You Here", " Don't Run Through The Screen Door Honey You'll Only Strain Yourself", "I Still Miss You, Baby, But My Aim's Gettin' Better" and , of course, " C'mon Down off the Stove, Granny, You're Too Old to Ride the Range", brought the house down at least twice!  As soulful music started to become "hip", Cheeze Brother Phil called me and persuaded me to move north again and join the band.  To tell you the truth, I still resent what the family did to me. But, I stay for the music.