Let’s get one thing straight right at the top: The Lucky Band’s newly unveiled and truncated name — from its old moniker of Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band — is slightly misleading.
The children’s hyperkinetic pop-rock group that features part-time Columbus residents Lucky Diaz and Alisha Gaddis is hardly lucky in any other fashion beyond its lead singer’s zippy name.
You don’t get nominated for four Latin Grammy Awards and win two from just odds merely swaying in your favor. Nor do you perform all over the world before adoring fans from sheer luck. Same for having an uber-popular, eight-year Emmy-winning PBS children’s TV show, “Lishy Lou and Lucky Too.”
They also have a show in China.
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There’s more, but what you need to know that the husband-wife duo are performing a special Columbus Area Arts Council First Fridays Online fun family concert which will be available Friday through March 19 at artsincolumbus.org
Their set lists often include songs in both English and Spanish, and their music has been more than entertainment for kids. Their song “Falling” was featured in a Coca-Cola commercial.
Besides the lessons that the pair teach from their TV show treehouse, Gaddis is a great example of perseverance for anyone any age, considering the fact that the writer had 250 book rejections before landing an agent. She’s the author of “Mama’s Milk and Me” and the heartwarming children’s tale “She Loves Me All the Same” about how youngsters sometimes wrestle with the arrival of a stepparent.
Of course, these projects hardly magically unfolded for one who was a standup comic before meeting her husband. Gaddis predicted a Grammy or two for her and Lucky when they first launched the band — and not because of luck, either.
“Never let someone tell you your goals are too big or too silly,” she told iwantherjob.com during a podcast interview.
When not in Columbus, Diaz and Gaddis, the daughter of just-retired Columbus East High School football coach Bob Gaddis and wife Karen, reside in Los Angeles with their young daughter Indiana.
She explained the band’s success two years ago in a chat with The Republic.
“I think people relate to the feeling we’re trying to project — the happiness and the joy,” she said.
The curious can see for themselves beginning Friday.
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Who: The Lucky Band, a globetrotting children’s pop-rock group featuring part-time Columbus residents Alisha Gaddis and husband Lucky Diaz.
When: Beginning Friday, with a time to be announced.
Where: Columbus area Arts Council’s web page at artincolumbus.org
Information: luckydiazmusic.com
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