Draft:Alexander Pettus

Alexander H. Pettus (Born March 28th, 1989) is an American actor, musician, author, painter, and entrepreneur. Over the course of his career he has gone by many names including Remy St. Claire, Alex Hugh, and more recently as A.H. Pettus. He started acting when he was just six years old doing voice over work in family cartoon films such as Christmas In Cartoon Town. He later switched his name from his birth name to a pseudonym Alex Hugh for subsequent films like The Lost Stallions: The Journey Home starring Mickey Rooney. This would mark the last film in Alexander's film career to date as he attended Savannah College of Art and Design and switched gears to start a music career under the personal and band name Remy St. Claire.

As Remy St. Claire he wrote the entirety of his first album The Black and White Album and recorded it at the legendary Charlotte recording studio Studio East with a whose who of the areas best players, including Mark Stallings on keys, Tommy Phillips on drums, Mike Dove as lead guitarist, and Colin Watts of Junior Astronomer fame on bass. This album would go on to have some small regional success with praise coming from radio DJ Divakar Shukla of 106.5 The End and Carmella Jarvi of the Knight Foundation and the Charlotte Observer. They toured up and down the east coast in support of the album and opened for bands such as Paleface and played at festivals such Drumstrong, and Tosco Music Party.

Issues with band members schedules and Alexander's(Remy St. Claire) subsequent relocation to Los Angeles, CA in the fall of 2013 led to the end of the Remy St. Claire project. He would play only two more shows as a stripped down solo act at The Hotel Cafe before pausing his music career to focus on his family as he was also married in the Fall of 2013 to Anna Skidmore and they welcomed their daughter in the winter of 2015.

During this period is when the pen name A.H. Pettus was taken on as Alexander set to work on two novels, a screenplay, and two children's series. The novels are in between agents and are currently unpublished. The screen-play entitled Average Joe was asked to submit to PAGES, The Nichols Academy, and SXSW receiving high marks from each competition and is currently optioned and awaiting production due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The two children's series, The Nautical Nobles, and Before Jungle Book are currently in various stages of pre-production at Netflix.

In 2018 Pettus split from his first wife and moved home to the Charlotte area with his daughter. After the divorce, the 4 years of hiatus from music came to an end as he began to write the songs to what has now become his latest album How The West Was Once under his current pseudonym A.H. Pettus. This album is a major departure from the swampy blues rock of his earlier alter-ego Remy St. Claire with a more stripped down Americana and country-western feel to it. Tracks like "Thanks", "The Story of Buddy Lee" and "Appalachian Man" have a sense of vulnerability and honesty to them that reach out to you like a warm hug from an old friend. Then there are the tracks like "Hard To Chase a Bird In Flight" and "Have a Little Faith(In Me)" where you can feel the full weight and emotional toll of what he must have been going through.

As an accomplished painter Pettus has completed and sold several pieces to various collectors across the country including, Billionaire B.V. Belk, and Randy Bates. His Paintings entitled Moses A. Cone and Water Lily were both selected for consideration to the Southern Prize in Fine Art and the South Carolina fellowship prize.

Alexander Pettus currently lives outside of Charlotte, NC with his second wife Anna Pettus, and their two daughters.