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Biography
David Ryan Harris is a singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. Born in Evanston, Illinois , Harris moved to Atlanta at a young age. Harris has had a varied career as a musician . He is married and has 4 sons: Miles, Life, River, and Truman.
Influences
Harris has cited artists including Stevie Wonder , Paul McCartney , and Prince (musician)|Prince as influences. http://www.dreamsawake.com/interviews/drh/index.htm dreamsawake.com - Interview - David Ryan Harris His solo music ranges in genre from folk to Rhythm and blues|Rhythm and Blues .
Career
Follow for Now
Harris has been Performance|performing on stage since the 1980s when he served as frontman for the Atlanta rock group Follow for Now . Harris' eclectic taste in music is apparent in the band's music, which shows influences ranging from Motown Sound|Motown to thrash metal . Follow for Now was given a record deal through Chrysalis Records and after working with Record producer|producer Brendan O'Brien (music producer)|Brendan O'Brien , released an unsuccessful self-titled album. The band members parted ways in 1994.
Solo career
After a short period out of the limelight, Harris began working as a producer and featured guitarist with Dionne Farris , a former singing|vocalist from Hip hop|hip-hop group Arrested Development (hip hop group)|Arrested Development . Harris’ guitar work can be heard throughout Farris’ 1995 album Wild Seed, Wild Flower .
Harris worked with Farris until he launched his solo career in 1997. He reunited with Brendan O'Brien (music producer)|Brendan O'Brien and was signed to Columbia Records , where the two would produce Harris’ solo debut. While the album was praised by critic s, Harris’ range of musical influences made the album difficult to sell and he soon moved on to his next project.
After the breakup with The Brand New Immortals in 2002, he continued going solo. He released two more albums : Soulstice (2003) and The Bittersweet (2006)
Brand New Immortals
Still working with O’Brien, Harris united with drummer Kenny Creswell and former bassist of the Black Crowes Johnny Colt , Harris created the trio Brand New Immortals . The group released a successful 6 track EP and were signed to Elektra Records . In 2001, the trio produced a Full Length|full length album entitled Tragic Show , http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005LMKU Amazon.com: Tragic Show: Music: Brand New Immortals which the band felt that Elektra did not properly promote. Early the next year the band broke up and Harris returned to the pursuit of success as a solo artist.
Recent Work
While Harris continues to promote his solo act, he can frequently be seen on stage performing with artists such as John Mayer (with whom Harris is currently on tour), Dave Matthews , and Santana (band)|Santana . http://www.awarestore.com/index.php? fuseaction=artist& nav=music& Artist_ID=5288 David Ryan Harris @ Awarestore.com Along with artists such as Sister Hazel , Better Than Ezra , and Collective Soul , Harris has also performed on The Rock Boat List of music festivals|music festival from 2002-2009.
In March 2009, Harris performed with Australian musician Guy Sebastian at SXSW , Austin Texas. http://www.undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx? id=7869 He also performed with Steve Cropper and Sebastian at the 9th NON-COMMvention in Philadelphia in May 2009. http://wxpn.blogspot.com/2009/06/radio-video-33-2009-noncommvention.html WXPN Music Blog. Radio Video #33 - The 2009 NonCOMMvention. June 8 2009 Harris and Sebastian have had a long association. In 2004, Guy Sebastian recorded "Sweetest Berry" which is a David Ryan Harris written song on Sebastian's second album Beautiful Life (Guy Sebastian album)|Beautiful Life . In 2006, Harris co-wrote two songs with Sebastian on his third album Closer to the Sun (Guy Sebastian album)|Closer to the Sun . In 2009, Harris co-wrote the single " Like It like That (Guy Sebastian song)|Like it Like That " with Sebastian. Harris played on and produced this #1 single which was the highest selling Australian artist single in 2009. http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-top-australian-singles-2009.htm Top 50 Australian Artist Singles 2009 Retrieved January 7, 2010 http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-top-100-singles-2009.htm ARIA Charts - End Of Year Charts - Top 100 Singles 2009 Retrieved January 7, 2010 Harris played on and produced Sebastian's followup album Like It Like That (Guy Sebastian Album)|Like It Like That which is being released in the US in 2010. http://undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx? id=8042 Undercover article
David has also played guitar on the album, Who I Am from Nick Jonas And The Administration which was released on February 2, 2010, but former New Power Generation bassist Sonny Thompson will replace him for live shows.
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External links
MySpace|davidryanharris
http://www.davidryanharris.com/drh.html David Ryan Harris' Official Website
Allmusic|class=artist|id=p215804|pure_url=yes David Ryan Harris Biography on Allmusic.com
http://www.archive.org/details/DavidRyanHarris David Ryan Harris collection at the Internet Archive 's Concert|live music archive
http://goincase.com/blog/author/gillsans/ David Ryan Harris Blog at the Incase Designs|Incase site
MySpace|drhstreetteam|David Ryan Harris' Street Team/Fan Site
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