QUEtheSUN started out as a simple idea, a challenge to myself: Write complete songs. I’d spent the 20 years prior crafting jingles, scores, and sound-scapes for all manner of media- TV advertising, sports broadcast themes and underscores, background music in television shows, videogame tracks, and on and on… This is a wonderfully challenging and diverse way to make a living and build a career, yet, at the same time, I kept quietly wondering, “CAN I write an actual song?” Over the years, I’d often slip into the studio once the day’s work had been completed to capture an idea, record a riff, look for inspiration… This produced seeds: partial demos, and a few basic song structures, but nothing that said, “This is what lives within me.”

So in 2015, after years of prattling on about “Someday,” I committed myself to see this through: “Write 10 complete songs, any style, no rules. Just create whatever oozes out of your skull.” Some were born out of 20-year old riffs, others from nothing more than my willingness to be open in the moment.

The name comes from a movie line I’d heard, many years ago. There, the “sun” was an instrument of deception, designed to keep the wool pulled over unsuspecting eyes. Here, it is to illuminate those deceptions within - the lies we all tell ourselves, to cover insecurities, uncertainties, regrets, and fear of the unknown. It is only when I light my darkness that I can see a better way.

These songs, and the lyrics they house, are the music I hear in my head when I’m free to simply be. These lyrics are snapshots of my hopes, dreams, failures, successes, and experiences that have shaped my past and led me to here -  my voice. 

Enjoy (At great volume…).