The Beatles, Led Zepplin, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Yes, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Larry Fast, Thomas Dolby, Kate Bush, Sting, Split Enz, The Finn Brothers, PInk Floyd, 10cc, The Eagles, Radio Head, Jeff Buckley, The Blue Nile, Neil Young, Jimmy Hendrix, Tomita, Bach, Ravel, Chopin, and so many more......
Canadian born, award winning songwriter Gerald O'Brien, who makes his home in Nashville Tennessee, has written successfully across all genres of music and extensively for film and television. He is currently signed with ole in Toronto, Canada and Nashville. Most recently O'Brien has written music for the hit TV series Dr. Phil, Entertainment Tonight, The Insider, Rachel Ray, and more. He has also written music for noteable events such as the Tour De France, Calgary Stampede, The 1998 Nagano Olympics, the NFL Super Bowl, The World Series, ABC's Wide World of Sports, the PGA, and has scored numerous animated TV series as well. As a songwriter Gerald has penned hits for Hall & Oates, Manhattan Transfer, Amanda Marshall, Deborah Harry, Loverboy, The Guess Who, Glass Tiger, Michelle Wright as well as Trace Adkins and Ronnie Milsap. Over his long and successful career O'Brien has received awards from CMPA for Song of Year, SOCAN Classic Song Award and been nominated for 2 JUNO Awards.
Gerald is also one half of the instrumental duo ‘EXCHANGE’ (Steve Sexton is the other half), who have recorded 6 CD's since 1989, and are about to start the long awaited 7th CD in May 2007. There will also be a MYSPACE page for Exchange and the website is under construction right now.
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Thanks for the add!! I am honored to be included in your circle of friends. I wish you much continued success as you forge ahead on your journey. I look forward to hearing more from you.
Thank you Gerald for the add as a friend and for the new song Ann's House by you and Victoria Banks. I just love her songs and inspiring music. Glad to see her working with such and inspiring writer like your self!
Hello! There's this very cool rock festival going on this weekend at Vanderbilt University. Lots of great acts including my friend, Alana Grace! You can check her out at: www. myspace. com/alanagrace and check out details of this music festival at: www. ritesofspring. com to see the line-up and all other details. Lady Antebellum, Spoon and Feist are going to be there among many other artists! All happening Friday and Saturday! Alana's playing on SATURDAY at 445pm, so come check her out! You won't be sorry that you did and there's lots of great music all the rest of the evening, too.
Just trying to spread the word about her and her music because she's been very supportive of Forget-Me-Not.
Please re-post this to help spread the word and hope you're having a great week!
