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NORTH SALT LAKE — Within the quest of making healthful pop music that the entire household can take heed to, native musician Man Richey Gibbons not too long ago launched an album in hopes that the messages in his songs generally is a optimistic affect, particularly for teenagers.

Gibbons describes music as being in his bloodstream, as he grew up the son of the proprietor of Platinum Sound and Mastering Labs, the oldest and longest-running business recording facility within the state of Utah.

“From a younger age, I have been blessed with the chance to listen to (the language of music) spoken and … I’ve had the chance to type of communicate again, if you’ll,” Gibbons stated.

He started taking piano classes at age 9 and completely detested the instrument. He was thrilled when his piano trainer needed to transfer away six months into his classes, however a couple of 12 months later he modified his tune after listening to his brother’s pal play “Underground” by Ben Folds 5.

“There was one thing cosmic that occurred and … my soul modified,” Gibbons recalled. “And it was like a turning level for me in my life the place watching him play that factor on the piano — I begged him that night time to show me this piano factor, and inside a day or two I had memorized it and was enjoying it fluently.”

Throughout the subsequent few years, Gibbons performed the piano for 5 hours a day. He could not learn music however was capable of play by ear. When he was 12 years previous, he and his dad co-wrote a music known as “I Imagine” that was featured on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ 2003 Particularly for Youth album.

Due to his younger age on the time, his voice is not the one featured on the album. As an alternative, a person named Brett Raymond was employed to carry out the vocals. Ten years after the music was recorded, Gibbons discovered himself on Raymond’s doorstep, asking for his daughter’s hand in marriage.

I am making this file — to supply a pop/rock various to individuals of all ages, in every single place. Songs about love however not intercourse — pop with out profanity — music about life, actual love, and properly, fact.

–Man Richey Gibbons, Utah musician

Man and Kelsey Gibbons share a ardour for music, however they felt guided away from pursuing it as a full-time profession once they had been first married. As an alternative, Man Gibbons began a advertising firm. In hindsight, he can see that he would not have had the identical function behind his current album if he had began it a decade in the past, earlier than his 5 youngsters got here into his life. Now, his function — making music households can take heed to collectively — is impressed by discovering leisure he feels snug bringing into his own residence.

“I do not suppose my 3-year-old must be uncovered to prime 10 pop songs which are about type of gratuitous intercourse …. however I do need them to have love songs of their minds, I need them to be singing love songs on a regular basis, and I need them to be singing songs about life and battle and going by way of exhausting issues, however overcoming by way of exhausting work,” Gibbons stated.

About 6 months in the past, he started taking break day from his job frequently to work on his album, which is named, “In This Second.” The album options 9 unique songs and one cowl music. Gibbons wrote eight of the songs himself and co-wrote one along with his father-in-law.

Gibbons stated the songs he wrote come from his coronary heart and are about life, love, fact and issues that matter to him.

“I am simply excited to share this with individuals,” he stated. “I actually hope that quite a lot of households on the market will resonate with the enjoyable messages which are in these songs.”

Of his mission as an artist, Gibbons wrote, “When you search the highest 10 pop songs of right this moment, you will discover the vast majority of them are offensive indirectly. Vulgarity, disrespect/violence, immorality, medication, and so on. … This is not a small factor. Younger individuals right this moment are fed full helpings of these items and that type of food regimen produces some fairly cancerous issues. That is why I am making this file — to supply a pop/rock various to individuals of all ages, in every single place. Songs about love however not intercourse — pop with out profanity — music about life, actual love, and properly, fact.”

Gibbons shared a couple of of the precise messages he relates in his album, together with from the title observe, “In This Second,” which he says is about studying to remain within the second as a substitute of simply making an attempt to get by way of the tough moments in life. He needs his listeners to be taught the fantastic thing about having fun with the reward of the current.

There are a couple of songs on the album associated to psychological well being, together with one known as, “I will Be the One,” which refers to individuals being there for his or her family members it doesn’t matter what occurs of their life.

“I feel there’s quite a lot of significance to that message with this psychological well being epidemic that we’re seeing everywhere in the world right this moment,” Gibbons stated. “What number of younger individuals want to listen to that and really feel that and know that there are those that it doesn’t matter what, we’re right here for you, we would like you, we love you, we would like you to stay round. And we would be the one to combat to your life even should you’re feeling that it isn’t price something, it isn’t priceless. It’s to us, it’s to me. And that is the place that music got here from.”

Gibbons’ album is on the market on bandcamp and may be streamed on any platform. To comply with Gibbons’ music, go to his YouTube and Instagram.

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