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David Blair

About Me

I used to cry so much as a boy that I was almost like a girl. If I lost at a sport - I would cry, if someone made fun of me - I would cry - if I heard an amazing song - I would cry - its sad I know - but that was me when I was in elementary school. Oh ya and I always had crushes on girls - never went through the stage of not liking girls - they were always cool to me and I always wanted their attention - so its no wonder I got involved in music at a young age writing about love and all that gushy stuff!
During my rock band stage - I was always freaked out about being on stage, but opportunities continued to present themselves to me and my band -opening for 'Nickelback', and bands that would eventually become 'Theory of a Deadman' and 'Default'. I tried to quit music - I really did - but somehow an opportunity or someone would inspire me to get back to writing - which would inevitably make me want to show someone the songs - ok show a lot of people -which brought me back to wanting to be an artist!
After much procrastination (I'm really good at that) I finally released my first album in the summer of '07 - self-produced, self-engineered, self-written and just barely avoiding self-inflicted wounds - I had some of the best times of my life touring southern California for 3 months and then touring the east coast of the US a couple months later ending up in NYC! The people I met will affect me forever!
So here I am now - presenting to you my second album - 'Things Left Unsaid' - I put all my blood, sweat and tears into it - its 12 pictures or 'snippets' of a time of my life that I won't forget - some reflections, some internal battles that I've come to accept, and words that I think are left unsaid too often when it comes to the people that count the most to us! I hope you enjoy the songs that I've put here for your listening enjoyment! Please comment me and let me know what you think - its because of you that I can survive in this world! :)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/26/2007
Band Website: davidblairmusic.com
Band Members: RADIO STATIONS TO REQUEST 'HURTS SO HARD' RIGHT NOW!
Toronto
CIRR - Proud FM
Hamilton
CKPC - 92.1 FM
Kelowna
CHSU - Sun FM 99.9
Vernon
CICF - Sun FM 105.7
Penticton
CJMG - Sun FM 97.1
Kamloops
CKRV - The River 97.5 FM
Vancouver
CKPK - The Peak FM 100.5
CKZZ - Virgin Radio 95.3
Medicine Hat, AB
CKBF-BFBS Radio 104.1
Port Hawkesbury, NS
CIGO - The Hawk FM 101.5
Lewisport, NF
CIFX - Mix FM 93.7
Whitehorse, YK
CKRW - The Rush FM 96.1
Yellowknife, NT
CJCD Mix 100 FM 100.1
Ucluelet, BC
CIMM - 99.5 The Edge FM

"Despite the title of his sophomore release, Canadian singer-songwriter David Blair holds nothing back ... Endearing and affecting, [Things Left Unsaid] provides listeners an unforgettable soundtrack for any occasion."
-- Performing Songwriter, Mar/Apr 2009

“I find David's songs compelling. They are full of strong intelligent lyrics creating wonderful images and heartfelt moods, all driven by catchy musical hooks with simple but very good arrangements. I am a believer that no one delivers a song quite like the writer and David is singing proof of that." - DALE RUSSELL – former guitarist/songwriter for THE GUESS WHO

"With his smooth voice and even smoother delivery, Blair brings to our scened-out music scene a refreshing and long-absent attack in the war against artist obscurity, all the while using the true songwriter's weapons of choice: Honesty and talent." - 24 hrs Magazine

Achievements:
* 2nd place Unisong World Song Contest 2009
* Best Adult Contemporary Album Toronto Exclusive Magazine Awards 2008
* Top Music Artist Award for Temecula International Film and Music Festival 2006
* 3 Honorable Mentions in the Billboard World Song Contest 2005

Notable Past Performances:
* 2008 - Bluebird North Songwriter Circle w/ John Mann (Spirit of the West), Shari Ulrich
* 2008 - Sullivan Hall – NYC Mar 2008
* 2007 - House of Blues – Hollywood Sept 2007
* 2007 - Viper Room – Hollywood Aug 2007

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Influences: John Mayer, Jason Mraz, Beatles, Brian Wilson, George Michael
Sounds Like: the healing touch of someone who cares..
Record Label: Renegade Soul
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Album Review in Performing Songwriter Magazine

Wow - I really feel like a cool feather in my cap was added when my album was reviewed by Performing Songwriter - and on the cover was living legend - Van Morrison no less - I'm kinda flabbergasted an...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:14:00 GMT

Some Nice Reviews of my CD Release Party! :)

My cd release was a tonne of fun - there also happened to be a little media there as well - this is what they thought of the whole show!http://www.ronatron.net/david-blair-cd-release-party-at -the-gran...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:43:00 GMT

A Letter From the City Mayor!

So as I'm on tour right now lots of great things are happening for me on the road as one might expect - great people, crazy stories of misfortune and fortune but something cool and unexpected happened...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:33:00 GMT

Online Contest to win tix to my show!

The Georgia Straight has been one of my favourite magazines to check out for opinions on music, live shows, movies and culture in Vancouver for a loooong time - so when they agreed to sponsor my cd re...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:55:00 GMT

July 21st is my b-day not Jan 1st!

Thank you for all your wonderful wishes of good will for my birthday but my b-day is actually July 21st!   For some reason when I started up this account there was no place to change the date so it mi...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:33:00 GMT

SASS what does is stand for?

As some of you may or may not know -  I teach songwriting to students from grades 6-12 in middle and highschools during the week in my neighbourhood and yesterday we got a little write up in the ...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:50:00 GMT

Deep Fried Texas - and I love it!

Welcome to random fact world hosted by yours truly  today you will learn a couple of  totally useless but somehow interesting factoids that may or may not be brief conversation fodder in the nea...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:08:00 GMT

You Have Good Taste in Music!

Its obvious because you are my friend and you know 'bout my album 'Hard To Control' - well it seems that the Toronto Exclusive Magazine agrees with your choice in music and has named it the 'Best...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:28:00 GMT

A crazy woman story from LA

So since my last little rant on here I've played shows in LA, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Hollywood, Catalina Island, Saltspring Island, Victoria and Duncan....what a lazy, selfish ass I've be...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:36:00 GMT

Things Left Unsaid

Ive finally found the name for my new album  it just came to me randomly as I was walking home from playing in the neighbourhood&. I started thinking about all the Things that are Left Unsaid throug...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:38:00 GMT