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Gregory Douglass
An experienced performer with the songwriting of an "old soul", "the voice of an angel" (Seven Days) and 4 critically acclaimed, independent CDs under his belt, 22-year-old Gregory Douglass is well ahead of his years. Sicne his 2001 release, Teeter, his career had skyrocketed with increasing interest from the music industry while his independent efforts have produced a solid fan base, a dedicated team, and the foundations for mainstream succes.
Douglass' passionate amalgamation of contemporary folk, pop, and rock have been compared to Jeff Buckely, Tori Amos, Peter Gabriel, and Bjork, while he has been equally influenced by his love for underground female singer/songwriters. His intense, high energy performances either as a solo acoustic artist or with his full band are consistently solid. The winner of the 2003 GrammyFest in New York City, he currently plays at clubs, festivals, and on campuses throughout the U.S., and was the inaugural performer on the American Red Cross 2003 "Save A Life Tour". He is an active juried artist on teh Vermont Arts Council, har toured with They Might Be Giants, and been co-billed with Tracy Chapman, Third Eye Blind, Melissa Ferrick, Martin Sexton, and Michelle Branch to name a few.
A native of Burlington, Vermont, Douglass was raised in a musical family, and was singing before he could speak. By his early teens, he was winning local talent shows, where he was eventually discovered by a producer and hired to record jingles for radio commercials. Inspired by singer/songwriters he was discovering at the time, he taught himself the piano and the guitar and began writing his own songs during junior high. He wrote and recorded the material for his first 2 CDs while attending Brewster Academy, a private boarding high school in New Hampshire. At graduation, the headmaster presented him with a music award, publicly announcing that Douglass was the first student he would ever encourage NOT to go to college; advice that was enough to convince him to pursue music full-time. In four short years, he has acquired a dedicated team consisting of a music attorney, a personal manager, a booking agent, a road manager, a street team coordinator, and a mailing list of thousands. This January, 2004, he will release his fourth studio album, Pseudo-Rotary.
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