Steven Whitaker

portland, OR USA

February 17, 2009

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I'm a self-publishing songwriter actively looking for established artists to license and record my songs for major release.  I have been writing songs for over 20 years, but have only recently begun to work on getting demos recorded.  There are many more songs I'm working on that range from piano ballads to guitar rock, metal, pop and, to my surprise, even a country song.  
  There are a ton of great songwriters out there, but when I listen to the radio, it seems to me that there are a lot of songs where the lyrics really aren't saying anything.  In my humble opinion, the best songs are the ones that really use the music to pull the listener into the story of the song or the emotion the song is trying to convey.  My songwriting philosophy is "Say something worth hearing".

Your musical influences

From The Carpenters to Queensryche and about everyone in between.

What equipment do you use?

Whatever I can get my hands on.

Anything else?

My goal as a songwriter is to generate enough income so that I can retire early from UPS and spend my life writing, recording, developing my skills as well as helping other young songwriters get quality demos recorded of their songs so they can go after their dreams.

On playlists

Living Dead Festival Radio

14 songs · 12 artists

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Nice work with "Believe me" , good story, structure and vocals .. nice one

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