Matt Slocum

Before founding Sixpence None The Richer, Matt Slocum played guitar for the Texas-based band Love Coma. He served as executive producer for that band’s debut album Soul Rash and composed the music for several of the songs. But not until he joined forces with Leigh Bingham to start Sixpence was he able to express his own rich, honest lyrics in his music. Although he took piano lessons as a youngster, Matt really wasn’t interested in playing music until he received a guitar for Christmas just before his 15th birthday. Known primarily as a guitarist and songwriter, he has also become quite an accomplished cellist and has written string arrangements for Sixpence and a number of outside projects. In 1996, Matt relocated from his hometown of New Braunfels, Texas, to Nashville, where he and his wife Kristin now live.