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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 17 years. His music reflects much of the attitude and emotions that have impacted his life. He has co-written four songs with his father, Bruce Geibel, including "Navy Seabee", "Trading Places," and "The Lord is my Lighthouse,"that have been recorded and produced and have played on his MySpace site over the past year. Eric is living his music experiences one song at a time, just like he lived his life, one place at a time.

Born in Montrose, Scotland, to Southern reared parents, he was literally raised around the world while his father, a Navy Captain, pursued a career in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps and Navy Seabees. His mother 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 Kinnard Castle by Brechin and then in a small bungalow on the North Sea in Montrose. He later lived abroad in Atsugi, Japan, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Montrose, Belgium and Agana, Guam. In the United States he has lived in Charleston, SC, Monterey, CA, Gulfport, MS, Annandale, VA, Mobile and Birmingham, AL, Marietta and Woodstock, GA and for the past 12 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.

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, 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 sung in the church choir for many years. He wrote or co-wrote all of his songs on his MySpace.com site and plans on releasing a full album CD after the first of the year.

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, George Shulz and Ronnie Sanders.

"I greatly appreciate all of the encouragement of my friends," Geibel said. "They have never allowed me to lose site of my dream" ...to be a songwriter, mucian 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.

"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 is currently working as an instructor in safety management for Consultant Safety Services, a large company in Louisiana. He has been working on a set of music related to the offshore 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 his first CD album," Geibel said. He is working on his second 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 Internet Radio. 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 recently played a SWAT team member extra in the new FOX thriller, “K-Ville”, that starting last Fall, 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 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 life.

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!”