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My virtual band: five avatars performing under the name Stalign.

The Stalign band in Second Life

Stalign has performed for real people represented by their avatars in Second Life. Second Life is the largest user-created online virtual 3D world with about one million subscribers. In it’s heyday, bands like Duran Duran, ELO and Suzanne Vega streamed live music into Second Life’s virtual nightclubs. A result of the lockdown, Second Life, like many other forms of online entertainment, experienced a threefold increase in player activity.

The Stalign band’s original music isn’t restricted to Second Life. Stalign has a Sound Click account. Sound Click is an online, music-based social community with 4.5 million registered members (real people). About 530,000 bands and artists have uploaded/posted almost 5 million songs in categories such as instrumental, jazz, hip hop, EDM, rock, metal, classical and blues. As of 25-2025, Stalign has had seven number one songs (as measured by number of plays) in five genres: Jazz, World, Synthpop, Latin, and EDM.

Here is the EDM/Rock fusion song ‘Street People’:

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