Azure Star was formed in early January 2009 by Shayne Thames of Illusion and Cameron Hons (previous member of the Country Folk People and Solo). Cameron was a fan of Shayne's previous band, Illusion - an album was released by Shayne in 2006. One day in 2008, bored, Cameron decided to remix one of Shayne's songs called Save the World. He then sent the remix to Shayne over the internet and she liked the remix. They thought it would be cool if they were in a band and Cameron liked the idea so they both decided to form one. Some various names were made for choices of the band's names like "Sounds of Hope" and "Azure Hero" but at the last minute the two both agreed on the name - AZURE STAR! Shayne, from Florida, USA and Cameron, from the other side of the world in Sydney, Australia manage to produce songs together by sending them online to each other, for example, Cameron would make a song and Shayne would make a song and they'd send each other the songs through the internet or on MSN instant messaging. They don't use a studio. Instead they either use computers or music making programs to create sounds (however sometimes Cameron does record his guitar, keyboard and drum parts to selected songs). In August 28 2009, the group released their first EP called Azure World on the internet. That EP proved to be popular and it contained the remix of Save the World that Cameron made. A few months later in April 2009, Cameron and Shayne finally released their first full length album - A New Generation!
MEMBER PROFILES
SHAYNE THAMES
Shayne (Born May 25 1984) hails from Florida, USA, She is known for making lots of websites based on the famous Sonic the Hedgehog character on the internet. Some of these sites include SonicAnime.net and SonicKingdom.net. She is the current vocallist for the band Azure Star. She is also a member of her own other band called Illusion. Popular songs include "Diamonds In The Myst", "Save the World", "Tikal's Theme (Rainforest Dance Mix)" and "(Hold me when i'm) Falling Down"
CAMERON HONS
Cameron (Born June 13 1991) is from Sydney, NSW Australia. He has had a musical background since he was a young boy and he got his first guitar in 2004 for his 13th birthday. On the same day he formed a band with infamous stefan goslinga called the Country Folk People. The band broke up in 2006 because Stefan was becoming a bad band member. In the same year Cameron decided to go solo and he released some albums. One of his most popular albums is "The Anti Stefan Album" - originally released in November 2006. The album was so popular that Cameron decided to make a second album called Better Than The Country Folk People and that was also successful. He also makes his own instrumental music and he is also another member of the band Azure Star. Cameron is a self taught musician and he does not and refuses to read music, but he makes songs anyway. Popular songs include "Bad Taste", "Stefan's Fucking Gay", "Jacob Menson Sucks at Super Mario 64" and "Tom's Brother is a Fucking Homo"
