Syteria / Members
Steph Dawson
Bassist VocalistI started playing guitar at the age of 11 when my parents finally got sick of me working my way through annoyingly loud brass and wind instruments. They decided at this point that a guitar would be more pleasing to the ear. I started teaching myself and joined a band at school at the age of 13. Following this, I began getting lessons and started gigging. I completed a BTEC National Diploma in Music Practice followed by a BA in Music at Newcastle University along with doing grades in guitar, vocals and music theory. At this point I also started playing bass. Alongside this I continued playing in a number of original and cover bands eventually moving onto bass full time. Now I’m excited to be continuing my musical journey with Syteria and I can tell, it’s gonna be a good one!
Julia Calvo
VocalistI can't remember a time when I didn't sing. I was born to a musical family in the west of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Having a rehearsal studio within the family home, I was fortunate to grow up around lots of different musicians that came over to jam with us along the years. From a very early age I studied music and classical singing with private tutors, but it wasn’t until my early teens when I started playing as part of a family band with my brother Pablo and my father. The first instrument I played was my mother’s bass guitar and my dad taught me the basics until I started having lessons. As a young teenager until my early twenties, I was part of multiple different musical projects some of which were bands, and a few of them alongside my brother on drums. I believe performing arts are incredibly powerful, for this reason I also explored other types of expression such as acting and dancing. This allowed me to become much more confident on stage. In 2010 I moved to the UK looking for a better life for myself and continued playing music with lots of new people I met this side of the Atlantic. My musical journey so far has gone from rock to pop to soul, latin, metal, jazz, among other styles. By the time I met Jackie I was more than ready to form Syteria and right now after touring extensively together I’m super excited for what the future might bring!
Jackie Chambers
Guitarist VocalistI was born in Bradford and grew up in Pudsey, Leeds where I started playing guitar at the age of 17 in punk bands, playing with various bands including Déjà Vu and Flowers For Agatha, then moving down to London where I joined a band called Bleech, who were a signed band. In London I formed an all girl band called Virago in the mid 90’s, we had a couple of TV appearances and played with them doing mainly local gigs in London. I’ve recorded with 1980’s Punk band Blitzkrieg recording the album ‘Everything is Lies’ and an EP which were both released a few years ago. In 1995 I placed an advert in a music paper where Kim McAuliffe from Girlschool answered as she wanted to do a side project, we hung out and wrote a few songs together. I became good friends with the rest of the band too and Kelly the guitarist at the time asked me to join as she wanted to leave. I’d never played lead guitar so said no but in 1999 I finally joined and since then have recorded on the albums ‘Not That Innocent’, Believe’, Legacy’, ‘Hit and Run Revisited’ and the latest album ‘Guilty As Sin’ ‘as well as recording various singles along with having guest appearances on our albums by Lemmy, Phil Campbell, Eddie Clarke, Twisted Sister, Neil Murray (Whitesnake) and Ronnie James Dio. I’ve been touring now with Girlschool, for 20 yrs, playing headline and support gigs with various Rock artists such as Motorhead, Saxon, Alice Cooper and Dio to name but a few and playing festivals all over the world including Wacken, Hellfest, Sweden Rock, Montreal MTL Festival, Hard Rock Hell etc. At this present time I have put together a lovely bunch of women called Syteria and we are based in Yorkshire and we are about to rock this planet, so look out!
Pablo Calvo
Drummer VocalistI started playing drums at the age of 3, my house was packed with instruments and my family very musical so it started as a natural thing. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina played in several bands mainly on drums but also some on guitar and sharing main vocals. I started off as self taught and my parents quickly encouraged me to learn more music, took me to study drums with a few different people as a kid and then as a teenager I attended the EMC music university for a while. My first band was at 9 years old and then played in a lot of other bands, having multiple at times. Among them a couple hard rock bands on drums and backing vocals with Julia playing bass & lead vocals, a classic rock band called Magma on guitar & backing vocals, a rock/metal band called Coercion on drums and played drums & main vocals with in an alternative rock/slightly progressive band called Sabot. Then another rock/funk project on drums & sharing main vocals. But with Sabot we released two albums together between 2014 & 2017. Fun fact the album released on 2017 had my drum and vocal tracks recorded in 2015 and it was later produced long after I moved to the UK. Sabot is now playing again with a different formation and released a third album towards the end of 2019. Syteria is my most recent band and I’m excited about the future!
