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Bryan Grant
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Bryan Grant composes, arranges, and performs easy
listening instrumentals with a flair for dreamy melodies and a
soothing, positive vibe. "I'm an anesthesiologist, I put people
to sleep. How apropos!", he jokes of his profession, quick to note
that if the opportunity came along, he'd chuck it all for the chance
to pursue his musical passion all day. "It's something where you
can really be yourself, and what comes out, comes out."
Music was Grant's passion as far back as when he
would visit his aunt's house as a child and study his niece's piano
lessons secondhand. His family was given a piano as a gift when
he was a teenager, and Grant promptly glued himself to the bench,
learning all the pop songs on the charts and picking up their arrangements.
Never dreaming of music as a career path at first, he joined the
military and lived around the world before deciding on a career
in medicine. When he returned to civilian life to go to med school
he found himself the newest member of his brother's band. He would
play keyboard with the band and ironically, the man who is now
known for his instrumentals, was also its lead singer. Playing
live with other musicians would prove to be a turning point for
him as a musician. "I learned chording and arranging patterns from
that experience, and started coming up with my own songs after
that."
As his professional career advanced, music remained
a focus and Grant continued writing new material with thoughts
of someday recording a CD. "I just sit down and start playing.
Something starts catching me when I'm playing it, and I'll lay
that track down real quickly before I forget. Sometimes I have
to come back and work on it, but sometimes all the pieces come
together at once." In the beginning, Grant figured he might eventually
come up with lyrics for his ever-growing stack of songs, but several
years into writing he decided that they should really just be left,
as they are. It would be more fitting with his goal as an artist,
which is to create music, that makes people feel good, and takes
their mind wherever it wants to go. His desire to leave song interpretation
up to the listener presented a tricky situation when recording
the songs, which necessitated giving them titles. He approached
the titles more like general ideas. "Like you find in the dictionary,
I gave them a title and then three ideas of what it meant to me.
This lets the listener discover what it means to them."
Less than a year ago, Grant realized that with advances in technology
and growing internet-based options available for marketing independent
music, the time had come to put together a CD. He selected a dozen
tracks recorded on his home keyboards and took them to Liquide
Sounds Studio in Chicago, where they were downloaded, sweetened,
and in some cases re-created using more advanced programs and further
virtual instruments. The result is a rich, lush sounding production,
but for Grant, it's just a start, and his dream is to someday hear
his compositions fully orchestrated and performed amidst live musicians.
Whether his future includes a record deal, soundtrack
scoring, or simply recording more self-released CDs for appreciative
fans, Grant will continue to create music from his heart, with
the hopes of sharing it with others. "I would like to offer inspiring
music that doesn't really tell you what to think - it lets you
go ahead and reflect on your own. I'd like to provide that conduit
to help you relax, to touch your soul."
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