Dan Leigh

My music is on most major pay-for download sites...

I get tired of reading peoples' biographies that look

like they are written by their PR person. This is my

bio, according to me. I wasn't raised as a

church-going person, my family never went.

Nothing wrong with that, there are many problems

with religion in my opinion. I always wanted

something more in my life though, beyond what I

saw in the world, and when I was 14 I found it. I

was never the same after I first heard Radiohead, and

music became my all-consuming religion. I dove into

learning guitar and keyboard, as well as starting to

write my own stuff. When I was 19, I decided to

record a proper demo of a few of my songs. I did

and it turned out well. A few months later, I was

looking through a book called Songwriter's Market,

and in it was an article by a producer named Scott

Mathews. It was the most brilliant article in the book

by far, and Scott's mailing address was in the book's

producer's directory, so I sent him a copy of the

demo. It was the only thing I had ever sent to

anyone. A few months later I got a letter from him

saying "Send more if serious." I recorded a few more

songs and sent them. Within a few weeks he called

and said he would do whatever he could to help my

career. I was shocked. A little over a year later, my

album The Shortest Life was released. I think

dedicating my life to music is an important thing to

do, and I have one great album and many more

life-changingly good albums to make. I've got some

new unreleased songs that I think are as high quality

as anything you'll ever hear. You'll just have to wait

though.....