COUNT OFF
This morning I woke up and decided that I wanted a new bio. Thanks to Kim for the last one. It just began to feel too pretentious. I want something a little more personal on my site, so instead of having wonderful accolades wrapped in glitz, I’ll just give y’all my life story directly from me.

INTRO
I was born in New York City. I was raised between there and an old mill house in Hopewell Junction, NY. I have a brother and two sisters. At age 7, my parents split up and I finished school in Spokane, WA. Our family has a cattle ranch about 40 minutes from Spokane, which I consider my ultimate home. It is where my Great Grandparents lived and died. After high school, I moved back to New York to pursue music.

VERSE
To know me, you must know my Parents a little bit. I grew up in a musical environment. My Mother, Deanna was a professional singer, who toured the world and sang for kings and queens. Must have been nice. My Father, David owned a major NYC recording studio since before I was born. There he wrote and produced music and protégés. By those who know that business, he is certainly regarded as one of the most famous and successful jingle writers in the history of mankind. We had some kick-ass vacations.

I think I took for granted the fame and talent that walked off that elevator while I grew up. It was just an average day. “What do you mean? Don’t all children have a 24 track studio on restaurant row? Don’t all Mom’s call you into the game room when Dad’s new spot is on TV? With HER singing it?” Don’t all families hang out with people that are on the radio and in movies?

I may not have known the rarity of it all; but I do remember watching thousands of recording sessions. I saw thousands of demo tapes. I met hundreds of people who wanted to be hired by my Father. I watched dozens of his former apprentices make millions of dollars… and thank him… and not thank him. It was a good time to be in the business.

CHORUS
After high school, Plan “B” (Hotel/Restaurant Management) gave way to my inherent ability and love of making music. So I dug in to some heavy private lessons for voice, piano, guitar and music theory. I then went to University of Miami and majored in Music Composition with jazz keyboard as my principal instrument and vocals as my secondary instrument. There I met people who have changed my life.

While in college I learned that most of those people graduate and hope to walk off the elevator and work in studios like the one I grew up in. So I dropped out and went back to the city and just DID it. I made money. I starved. I made money again. In the days when we all got residuals I learned to do it. “What do you need? What style? What artist should it sound like? Hip and modern, huh? 30 or 60? You need it by tomorrow morning? Damn! Can I massage these lyrics at all? Good. Who do you want on guitar? Group 5? Male or female lead? Is there a budget for real horns on this? Go figure. Two cassettes and a 30ips, full vocal and instrumental to #1 Dag via bike messenger? Done.” It was just like that. I did hundreds of them. The job was to give them a piece of music that will raise goose bumps or make people laugh or cry in 30 seconds. It was pop, rock, R&B, country, classical, big band, polka, rap, latin, full band, a cappella, anthemic, ethereal, funny, sad, magical. Whatever it was, they expected EVERY submission to be a hit song... Looks good on the resume.

We watched computer technology grow in front of our eyes. Midi was born. We bought everything as soon as it came out. I got hugs when I walked into Sam Ash. Real hugs. We had everything and I learned how to run it all. That was invaluable in learning to produce and sing.
I paid hard dues and took years of immeasurable criticism in order to learn to collaborate, write, arrange, produce, program, engineer and especially sing for national broadcast along side the New York cats.

All the while, I slowly stacked a catalog of gourmet songs. I pursued my solo artist career and shared a band for years with my brother, Cristopher. I cultivated a small group of co-writers. I performed at most great New York City dives and hot spots and tons of other places in other cities.

The first company to put a lot of money in front of me was in Dallas. So I gave it a shot. I spent 5 good years in Dallas. I became a Vice President and ran the music department of a bustling creative group. I learned to do the whole thing from creative concept to music to video. I traveled the country, first class. I did creative presentations for literally thousands of companies. I did not starve. And while in Dallas, I had yet another big recording studio at my disposal. I wrote and produced a new record there. I had the cream of the crop players on it. This is my most recent, unfinished CD.

BRIDGE
Enter - Hollywood! Since August, 2006, I spend most of my time at my new place in Hollywood, CA. I’m 4 blocks from the walk of fame... for now. I write and record with old friends and new ones. I pitch songs for records, movies, TV shows, industrials, yo’ mamma and yes - commercials.

I put a bunch of songs on this site for you to listen to. It’s a collection of years of work. They’re nothing in particular; but songs that I enjoy. Some of them were written for other people to record, although I sing all of these recordings.

L8R

MORE INFORMATION AND MUSIC AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST, EMAIL: management@jasonlucas.com .