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Eric Geibel has been writing country and southern rock music about the people he has met and events he has experienced throughout his life, and in particular for the past 18 years. His music reflects much of the attitude and emotions that have impacted his life. He has co-written five songs with his father, Bruce Geibel, a Retired Navy Seabee officer, including "Navy Seabee", "Trading Places," "The Lord is my Lighthouse," "Trouble Knows I'm Here" and their latest military-themed collaboration "Never Forgotten" (co-written with Eugene Crider, songwriter, Freeze Records) that have been recorded and produced and have played on his MySpace site over the past couple years. Eric is living his music experiences one song at a time, just like he has lived his life, one place at a time.

He was born in Montrose, Scotland, to Southern reared parents, his father being stationed at the nearby Naval Security Group Activity (NSGA), Edzell, Scotland. His family for two generations served in the U.S. Military. He literally grew up around the world while his father, a Navy Captain (with service in Vietnam), pursued a career in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps and Navy Seabees. His paternal grandfather, Dr. Frank B. C. Geibel, was also a Navy Captain serving in the Medical Corps during WW II with duty in the Philippines. His mother, a U.S. Air Force brat (her father, Russell Milton Fowler, an Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with duty during WW II, Korea and Vietnam), and Navy wife (dependent), taught school around the world as she followed his father from place to place.

Eric Geibel moved to a different place about every two years until after his college days. As a child, he lived in Scotland, where he resided in the 12th century Kinnaird Castle by Brechin and then in a small bungalow on the North Sea in Montrose. He later lived abroad in the following places: Naval Air Station, Atsugi, Japan; King Faisal Naval Base, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Montrose, Scotland; Nimy-Mons, Belgium; and Nimitz Hill, Naval Station, Agana, Guam. In the United States he has lived in: Goose Creek, Naval Weapons Station housing, Charleston, SC; Naval Postgraduate School housing, Monterey, CA; off-base housing, Long Beach, near Gulfport, MS; Annandale, VA; Mobile and Birmingham, AL; Marietta and Woodstock, GA; and for the past 13 years in and around Morgan City, LA. He now lives in Berwick, Louisiana, to be with his son Gage.

During his worldly travels and constant moves with his parents, he had a chance to visit over 39 countries around the world, including: Denmark, Sweden and Norway, in Scandinavia; England, Scotland, and Wales in Great Britain; France, Germany (including Berlin), the Netherlands, Luxemburg, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Lichtenstein, Italy and Greece in Europe; Morocco, Egypt and Kenya in Africa; Saudi Arabia and Jordan in the Middle East; Mexico and Canada, in North America; and Guam, Tinian, Japan, Hong Kong and Thailand in the Far East and Asia. He remembers his most exciting vacation being in Kenya where he and his family saw lions, cheetas, elephants, giraffs, zebras, rhinos, monkeys and other animals in the wild. He also enjoyed walking the infamous Lawrence of Arabia Railroad track in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, climbing the pyramids in Egypt, skiing in Germany, climbing the Eiffle Tower in Paris, France, seeing the Emperor's Palace in Tokyo, Japan, seeing many windmills in The Netherlands (Holland), visiting Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark, seeing Viking ships in Oslo, Norway, scuba diving on Tinian and Guam in the western Pacific, seeing Check Point Charlie and The Berlin Wall in Germany, and eating moules (mussels) in Mons & Brussels, Belgium. "Been there, done that" ... can almost be his motto in his traveling life.

During his worldly travels, he learned to appreciate the customs of the local people and their rich history. His life’s experiences, especially along the Gulf Coast in the USA, would later lead to him expressing himself in the common language he heard around the world, music. To him, music transcends all languages, boundaries and barriers that anyone can basically understand. He is at ease in the foreign arena and can bridge the language gap through his gentle and often soft-spoken music. But, he remains a “good ole country boy”, and his heart lies in writing and singing country music about real life that is so popular around the world.

Since he was born and raised on southern rock ‘n roll and country music – both of his parents were raised in the South – he combines the sounds of Nashville and Louisiana with contemporary southern rock melded with his worldly life’s experience making him a unique artist on the country scene. Some music influences in Geibel’s life include: Kenny Rogers, Garth Brooks, Stevie Ray Vaugn, Johnny Cash, Eric Clapton, Keith Urban, Tracy Byrd and Tim McGraw.

Eric Geibel plays rhythm guitar and piano which he plays mostly by ear. It is a trait he picked up from generations of musicians on both sides of his parent’s families, including his father on guitar and keyboard and mother in singing and playing the piano. His mother sang in the church choir for many years. He wrote or co-wrote all of his songs on his MySpace.com site. He released his first CD in 2008 and plans on releasing his second full CD by the end of this year 2009.

In preparation of his songs, he has had the opportunity to work with and was heavily influenced by several of his friends, including Hal Bruni, Wayne Mills, Brian Francais Baudoin, Darren Vicnair, Pershing Wells, Waylon Thibodeaux, George Scholz, Neil Russell, Eugene Crider and Ronnie Sanders.

"I greatly appreciate all of the encouragement of my family and friends," Geibel said. "They have never allowed me to lose site of my dream" ...to be a songwriter and musician in the music industry.

After years of preparing, Geibel has finally been able to record his music with Digital Sac-a'-lait Productions in Houma, Louisiana with Pershing Wells. Pershing Wells also plays lead guitar and sings harmony on most of his songs. What a vocal harmony they produce together...sweet!

"I have always wanted to publish my music and the opportunity finally arose after meeting Pershing Wells," Geibel said. “He has truly been a pleasure and privilege to work with in the production of my music.”

Geibel has worked offshore in the oilfields off of the Gulf of Mexico as an Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) pilot. He has been an instructor and safety manager. He recently worked as an instructor in safety management for Consultant Safety Services, a large company in Louisiana. He is currently employed in safety and computer management programs, and has several home businesses that keep him busy -- including MySpace design. He organized, designed and self-produced his first CD including taking the pictures on the CD. He has been working on some music related to the offshore oil industry and the personal experiences of spending so much time being away from family and friends. "I owe a lot of credit to working offshore for helping me self produce my first CD album," Geibel said. He is working on his second full CD.

Eric has paid his dues in the entertainment, music, writing and acting industries over the years. He played music gigs in Agana, Guam, Marble Hill, GA, Bayou Vista and Morgan City, LA, and has been featured during world wide broadcast on AFB and HooAh Internet Radio Stations. He appeared on a hour-long segment on Nashville Seen in Nashville, TN, in 2009. Along the way he worked lights and video for a U.S. Navy Boonie Loonies skit production at Nimitz Hill, Guam, performed as an entertainer at “Six Flags over Georgia,” near Atlanta, was an extra in the movie “Under Siege” about a Navy SEAL, filmed in Mobile, AL, in 1992, staring Steven Segal, Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey, and played a SWAT team member extra in the FOX TV thriller, “K-Ville”, in 2008, and was filmed on location in New Orleans, LA. To add to his music and writing experience, he has been: a television technician intern for an Alabama TV station; editor of his school newspaper “The Drumbeat” at Faulkner State Community College in Mobile, AL; sports editor of “The Franklin Banner Tribune” newspaper in LA; sports editor, photographer, city editor and interim editor for “The Cherokee Tribune” newspaper in Canton, GA; and, was owner-editor of his own newspaper “The Lakeside Ledger” in Morgan City, LA. He was a member of the Pow Wow Leadership Society at Faulkner State Community College, recipient of a Memorial Scholarship in college, and is listed in Who’s Who in American Junior Colleges in 1992.

Geibel currently enjoys spending time traveling, writing music, performing and experiencing the thrill of learning new things through the eyes of his son. This relationship can be seen in his song “Always Changing,” about the changes in his son’s and his girl-friends daughter's lives.

Special Note: “I would like to thank my sister Lisa for listening and supporting my dream of writing music before anyone else would listen. She would sit for hours and listen to me writing and composing music,” Geibel said. “Thank you, sis!”