Hiya. So today's song is
Superman by Joe Brooks.
Joe is a singer from the UK. He originally
had gotten into music when he was ten with piano lessons, but dropped when he wasn't into the classical compositions, which is
something that seems to happen to a lot of people honestly. He got back into music though after he saw Derrin Nauendorf play. That's when he decided on guitar, and
started to teach himself. Sometimes other people helped teach him some stuff too when he attended music festivals. With his interest, he took
music tech in college, and began to write and produce his own stuff which he put up on MySpace. Joe made an EP and
had lots of offers for labels and managers, but
he smartly declined most of them after looking into the stipulations on the contracts. Fine print people, you need to read that shit. He released
his first album in 2006, which he sold on his MySpace on his own website. He ended up traveling to California to play a mini-tour there, and met the woman
who would become his manager. Fun fact: that woman was Ginger McCartney, who is the mother of Jesse McCartney
(teen heartthrob of my generation). He quit school, signed with Ginger, and started playing in tours and recording music for awhile while
hopping back and forth between the UK and America. He signed with a record label that helped him to
officially move to the states where he released his album featuring this song.
Although technically this song was from earlier in his career. The album didn't sell well, so he got dropped by the label, but he kept going
and funded his own release of his next venture, which did well enough that he got signed to a label for the Asian market. He's been going steady since then, with
his latest album released in 2016, so check it out.
Peace.
