Memphis, Tennessee
21 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter, Songwriter

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"Remember: the light at the end of the tunnel may be you."

BIOGRAPHY

I absolutely love everything about the power of music--it's power to heal, calm, soothe, cheer up, excite, etc. I've been writing for a little over a year now and have fallen more in love with it as each day passes. Creating melodies, riffs, rhythms, and so on just makes me so happy and I try to create that happiness and uplifting mood in most all my songs. Very rarely do I write a sad song, because the world is sad enough as it is. It's time for us to smile again.
I am hoping to become a professional artist or songwriter in the future. Any help from anyone who is willing to give me a chance would be so greatly appreciated. I also come from a very religious background (which can be heard in some of my songs) so the belief that God wants me to be a songwriter and to spread happiness through music exists with in me. I hope that you will enjoy my music, in its rough home demo state with very minimal recording equipment/skills. And above all, get a smile out of it. With music, anything is possible. Anything is expressable.

LEVEL

aspiring

GENRES

Singer/Songwriter, Easy Listening, Rock

Contact

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P.R.O.

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INSTRUMENTS

acoustic guitar / electric guitar / piano / vocals

INFLUENCES

Tom Petty, James Taylor, Aerosmith, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Hootie and the Blowfish, Gin Blossoms, Enuff Z'nuff, Hall & Oates, BJ Thomas, Bob Dylan

DAY JOB

Student at Memphis College of Art

I AM INTERESTED IN

in co writing online
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in getting a record deal
in getting a publishing deal

I WRITE:

When I have time

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

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AWARDS & ACCOLADES

Finalist in the Soft Rock category of the 2009 SongDoor International Songwriting Competition for "Close Your Eyes" as well as Honorable Mention for "Why Not Enjoy Your Life" //#1 Song with "Madeline" in the iBandBattle Week One Countdown // Honorable Mention in the World's Best Songs Monthly Contest for May 2009 for "Close Your Eyes (You'll Be Livin' Tonight)" // Honorable Mention in the Singer/Songwriter category of the 2008 SongDoor International Songwriting Competition for the song "Have the Time of Your Life" // Honorable Mention in the American Songwriter Magazine Lyric Contest for Nov/Dec 2008 // 4 times accredited composer by the National Fraternity of Student Musicians

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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,