User:A. J. 'King II ElviSpeare' Rogers/sandbox

Andrew Jay Rogers (Born: April 29th 1970) is an American singer, author, currently producing songs and books. (1977; 2018 - current) Rogers has been referred to as, "King II ElviSpeare" "The Doppelgänger" - because of shared Elvis Presley heritage, height, lip tuck, vocals, and arrhythmia - "King II" "The King" "The Second Coming of the King" "Two Kings" - because of heritage ties to the Presleys and royalty - "Elvis" and "Victrola" - (for his vocal talents being compared to Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Frank Sinatra)

Rogers was born the youngest of 4 in the nations capital of Washington D.C at Sibley Memorial Hospital and relocated to Holmes County Ohio Amish country Ohio before the age of 2.

Rogers first and foremost singing influence happened in the Fall of 1976 while growing up in Holmes County Ohio Amish Country. Earlier in that same year he made a promise to his first grade teacher, Mrs. Yoder, too 'someday write a book.' Her being a member of the English Chapter of the Shakespearian Society led her to believe she saw a hidden talent. (It wouldn't be until 2007 that Rogers began to keep that long kept promise of writing).

In 1976 his mother sat him in the the family living room of their yellow glazed brick cape cod with the TV left on. One day a deep voiced narrator caught his attention. It was an RCA Collectors Edition commercial for Elvis Presley records. When Elvis sang the 6 year old Rogers's throat tickled as he would muse and attempt to mimic the Elvis 'still' floating across the screen. A visiting family church friend, Samuel McDonald, took notice and some months later in 1977 he received the record collection on his 7th birthday. His passion was short lived. When Elvis passed on August 16th of 1977 his mother took him shopping and when he arrived home his record collection was gone. Mourning the loss this most impactful influence, his passion went dormant on October 1st of 1977. A date Rogers agreed to with his family to quit singing. Although Sam McDonald had told him to find a music school in adulthood it was long forgotten. Over the next 41 years singing anything, and Elvis only maybe twice, seldom surfaced and was met with immediate disdain on all but few occasions. It wasn't until telling a stranger about a science fiction book, Drone Life, that he was teaching himself how to write, that he took the stranger's advice to take an acting class which he attended in 2018. Rogers didn't feel the acting school he attended were 'his crowd' however pupils singing reminded him of singing along with Elvis Presley on those vinyls. One day a student got up and sang Ozzie Osbourne and he figured, "I can't do any worse than that." He went home, downloaded Elvis on iTunes, got a singing lesson with a 22 year veteran and on April 5th 2018 he was told he pitch matched Elvis Presley. He's got the vinyls out of the box and bought a record player and had been practicing ever since. Having turned down $10,000 for his poetry in 2010 is what he's now producing into songs.