David Nyro is the name. Trying to make a living off an elpee's worth of tunes. And then some.
Originally from Connecticut. 13 states later, I'm based in beautiful Tacoma, just down the road from Seattle. Only the traffic sucks. I dig all kinds of music, from all era's - from opera and classical to ambient, bluegrass, jazz, folk and good ol' pop and rock. I imagine it's all mashed up inside, filtering itself in mysterious, organic ways and manifesting in my eclectic songs. You be the judge and jury, please! I greatly appreciate hearing from everyone about my music, the good, the bad and the ugly. It's all good, really.
David Nyro (rhymes with hero) is an award-winning (Four Golden Kayaks from Indie Music People), genre-chameleon, confessional singer-songwriter.
He's traveled the world and lived in 13 states. David's worn a lot of hats. Dad, radio and club DJ, TV news reporter and anchor, professional fundraiser, writer, artist, factory worker, record store clerk, barista, census-taker, and more.
He once almost joined the circus to take care of the elephants, but was scared away by a very tall, sinister clown who stalked him and a tyrannical prima donna elephant prince who was a dead ringer for Joffrey from "Game of Thrones." That, and the fact that the person he would've replaced was killed by an elephant.
(Maybe that was a test?).
His songs come from life experiences and draw inspiration
from thousands of sources: Joni Mitchell,
Gram Parsons, Nick Drake, Elliott Smith,
Leonard Cohen, Gillian Welch, Mumford and Sons,
The Civil Wars, and Marvin Gaye, to name but
a few.
He sings and plays guitar, piano, harmonica
and banjo (sorta). So far, he's released three
e.p.'s, one album, and 10 singles.
David plans/hopes/dreams to go back into the
studio in 2022 to record again. He's written a few
songs in the past few years. Around 1,400, he
figures. A few of them are probably decent, right?
He's only memorized ten and a half of them.
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