​Alexis C Martino

   Currently in the new indie electronic-folk band Chalk the Gates with band partner Karlis Kandero. The debut album Dissent Vehicles dropped May 29th, 2018 and we'll be going on tour later in the year.

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    Being an only child raised in the Chicago-land area, I have always had a vivid imagination. I would make up siblings*, languages, songs, stories, backstories for my barbies, anything that I could think of. Once I was in high school, my creativity was still booming. There I became fluent in Double Dutch (aka Gibberish**), learned of my love of sewing (which I really dove into in college***) and grew into the creative being that I am today.

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Fun fact:

While filming Sweet Leaf, I "donated" some of my hair to the craft. The costumer-extraordinaire Jessi T. Walsh needed something to make the big furry jacket I wore pop, so both she and I cut snippets of our hair from the back of our respective heads which she proceeded to glue to the shoulders of that beautiful jacket. I sometimes miss it...the jacket, not my hair.

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*When I was 3 yrs old I would tell people that I had a 7 yr old brother and how great he was and all the fun things we'd do together. Normally that would probably be okay, however...my mom had me when she was 23, and the mere idea of people thinking she had a child when she was 19 was too shameful to her, so she had to go around telling them that I was, in fact, and only child. That was the only time she corrected my creativity.

**It is a language. I can give examples at any time. Also, featured in 'Slums of Beverly Hills'

***I worked in the costume shop all 4 years of college. After college I began my own seamstress company Collina's Clothing, where I would make costumes for plays. I have been seamstress for a competitive figure roller skating team, and currently create custom one-of-a-kind items for private clients and have worked as set seamstress on several national commercials.