i grew up in omaha. i left because i got into stanford university and figured i should probably go. so i drove across country with a friend in my 1958 triumph tr3 (i still have it!) and took every class that ended in 101 or -ology.
the next summer, i played around in a friend's studio in omaha and fell in love with recording. i had always played the piano, but never really took a music career seriously. i went back to stanford after recording a painfully amatuerish demo and shopping it around in l.a. to no avail.
i was in a friend's dorm and heard some guy playing guitar on the floor - he was really great and the songs were beautiful - and simple - and it struck me that simplicity was probably the key to the whole thing musically. *epiphany* (that guy was william ackerman, by the way. the founder of windham hill records)
i had a little money saved up. i moved to san francisco - put an ad in the classifieds - and started to record people in my apartment. i had no idea what i was doing. i also wrote music for anyone that would hire me (hiring me did not mean paying me...). i slowly built a business writing music for commercials and then got signed to a record deal to put out instrumental albums (yes...vinyl).
that led to kevin costner hearing my music (not by accident - i really put the records out to try and get into film scoring. i had watched people get film gigs by getting their music used as temp music in films). kevin liked what he heard and hired me to write the firedance scene in dances with wolves. a pretty darn good first film gig. of course, you don't know how the movie's going to do at the time. you just do the job. but what an amazing ride that was...
his friend then hired me to score the 8 hour series kevin executive produced called 500 nations. so i went from 2 minutes in dances to 8 hours. and at the same time i was learning a ton about the american indian culture. i was stunned by the history and the sense of what may have been lost in terms of collective wisdom.
i kept writing for commercials and CD releases and at the same time started formulating the idea for my spirit show. at first, it was a small concert i did at a benefit for jamie redford. that turned into a pbs special produced out of new york. it was the right idea but i felt it was the wrong execution. so after that ended i set out to try and produce it myself.
holy cow - i had no idea how hard that was going to be. but after many years, spirit - the seventh fire was born. the culminating achievement was when it was on the national mall in washington d.c. for the opening of the national museum of the american indian. you can learn more about spirit by clicking on the "friend" button below or visiting http://www.spirit7thfire.com
after i closed the show i was physically and emotionally wiped out. i had to write some songs. in the past, i had written songs for other people to sing. but this time i realized i had to sing them myself. the last time i did that was way up in the second paragraph. a long time ago. and i was pretty bad, frankly. but life experience and studio experience taught me a lot. gold star was greeted with much enthusiasm. i was actually going to originally put it out under another name because i was scared to expose myself.
and now i am, instead, putting out vocal CD number two this summer. entitled staring at the sun.
alright! it's clearly been awhile since i last updated this bio. i've now released my third vocal collection, imaginary kingdom, and collaborated twice with akon of all people! all sorts of other things are happening as well. you want to know what they are? here's an easy way, join my Ning site (can i say that on mypsace? have i just broken some rule i don't know about?) well... if you're reading this, i guess it's okay to put the link here: http://www.peterbuffett.com/ning
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Ever wondered what to do in the event of a nuclear threat?
A while ago I found stuff that inspired me to make this film:
Living Under the Shadow of the Nuclear Umbrella
Both artistic (ensure you get the background music!) and educational, it primarily comprises official British government civil defence advice.
Though source materials are quite aged, much remains relevant today.
I encourage all to visit the YouTube page to learn more (Show support! Rate! Comment!) and responsibly circulate as widely as possible, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaIim3Rj7L4
I Watched C-SPAN the voting process and did not like what I heard and seen.
I did not hear the Democrats saying that the fines were not true, that will be forced, made mandated to pay for the health care.
I am happy to hear that we will have available Health Care Insurance Coverage for everyone.
Sad to hear that everyone will be made to pay what is told to be paid In addition, if we do not paid what is forced, made mandated to pay for the health care? We will be fined, and if we do not pay the fines, we will be put in jail.
There are many people all over the world without jobs, and many people With jobs that cannot afford to pay those high health care premium. Example
$ 200.00 a month and up. The people in the white house can afford to pay, us people that are struggling to make ends meet cannot afford to pay what they do?
You either pay the high cost premium or you do not have the Health Care Insurance Coverage.
Well I do not see this problem being solved with putting more Fines on the people when they are having enough problem with staying alive In addition, trying to pay all our other expenses when we do not have the money to do that.
The only way I can see that this will solve our Health Care Insurance Coverage. Is that the Insurance premium will be very low that the people Can afford to pay without letting all their other expense go like eating, a place To stay, etc.
That is depleting the purpose of getting health care insurance for everyone If you are in jail with out standing fines how in the world do you think that Is going to help all those that has been sentence to pay money they did not have in the first place. Those that are sentence will still be without coverage.
Plus adding debts on top of their other debts. That was forced on them bec
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Thank You so much for being my friend!! i so appreciate having you!!! Seems to me you got it going on!! It's amazing what we can accomplish with desire, hard work and believing in ourselves!! If you get a second i'd appreciate you check out my version of Etta James classic AT LAST!!!
It torments me when I read about Christopher Columbus and what he thought and did to our Beautiful Spiritual Indian Angels ~I hope he is not resting in peace~GOD BLESS AMERICA~YOU WILL LIKE THIS BLINGEE, I think...not perfect but creative...
It's a pleasure to meet you. :) May you live at peace and with the awareness of Universe's love in every sunset, every flower's unfolding petals, every baby's smile, loving partner's kiss, and every wonderful, astonishing, miraculous beat of your heart.
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Thanks so much for the Add–and your friendship. We enjoyed your music very much. Thanks for sharing it with all of us. It's a pleasure having you among our friends! We've just added two new blogs about Umano, plus four more new compositions, making ten on our space. We hope you and your friends visit us and enjoy our music, too. We wake up every morning and play the music of the new MySpace friends who have arrived at our site during the night. It occurred to us that these friends (you are among them) are almost universally positive, whether they be novices or legends, and without regard to their station in life or the country they occupy. Although it's not an original thought, it also occurred to us that we couldn’t hold a verbal conversation with most of these friends, but we have bridged that gap by expressing our art honestly with each other. We all have been filling the world with our music and art, in the hope that our messages of love and human understanding will have an impact on the world at large. What a gift and what an opportunity we have received from this technology!
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† Hi good buddy...I love "THE WAY"~very pretty~haven't checked in for awhile so I'm saying Howdy...I see Duke Michaels is a friend...he's very funny, right? True heart, too. Hope you are well...send me a note and let me know...Hugs, Gretchen Anne ♥ Music Update: http://MyCountrySpace.com/IvoryPearlMusic
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