Bio
I’ve been writing songs and playing guitar since I was a teenager. I started out playing in church worship groups for several years and also during that time, enjoyed a brief stint as a bass player in an alternative rock band. Admittedly I wasn’t that great of a bass player but I learned a lot and had a lot of fun playing shows all over eastern Pennsylvania.
A couple years after that I attended Visible Music School in Tennessee for a year. I attended the school as a vocal major. I really couldn’t sing at all though and on more than one occasion faculty members tried to get me to change my major. By the end of the year though, I had managed to get good enough at singing to no longer be terrible at it. Just fairly bad.
Fast forward a couple more years and a few friends and I from church started a pop/punk band named CrewmanNumber7
By now we are up to the year 2006 and I was just starting a family. I struck out on my own as a solo artist and in December of that year released a free EP titled Watching the Ships. It contained five pop songs that I recorded and produced myself in my own studio. The songs were pretty good, the recordings could have been better.
I would spend the next few years writing a ton of songs but only recording and releasing a few of those. Starting a family and working a full time job in the real world often need to take precedence over creative pursuits. During this time though I’d like to think that my song writing and singing improved a bit.
Now here in 2010, I am back doing music again, but no longer as a solo artist. All of my creative efforts are currently being poured into my new rock band 2 Hour Drive and I’m having lots of fun doing it.
Someday I will return to doing my solo music, though hopefully in conjunction to my band, I’ve got far too many folk/pop songs that I’d like to share with all of you to just abandon them.
As always, thanks for listening
-Yordy