Phoenix Hart

So. This morning I decided to take down the bio that was here before because…I didn’t write it. Every time I read it I wanted to correct it and take out the BS. I don’t know how long this one will last – but let’s just see.
Hi. My name is Phoenix. I love music. I love the beauty of uncertainty . I love the feeling I get when I think of the things/people that I love. I love to get lost - So I play guitar.
Both my mom and my dad influenced my love for music by making sure that it was always around. First fav artist: RAFFI. First fav song: “Baby Beluga.” I saw him in concert when I was little and it may have changed my life.
I saw my dad “in concert” a lot too when I was little. His bluegrass band would always get together and play, and sometimes they would come over to our house and set up in my living room and play all night. I was too young to understand why I liked it, but I knew I needed to be apart of it – so at 3yrs I learned how to hold four chords on the mandolin so that I could play along with my dad and everyone to songs like “Will The Circle Be Unbroken.”
At 16 I got my first guitar. Unfortunately, I was never able to take lessons or really get into it because I was too into sports.
Finally, a few years ago, I picked up a guitar book and tried learning a few chords on my own. Then more. Then started to sing and play. After a few months I was writing and getting lost in music again.
About 5 months ago, I was given the opportunity to finally put a few songs down in a studio – just me and a guitar. The plan was 4-5 songs so I could give them to my family. Somewhere in that time frame, 4-5 songs turned into 6-8 songs...plus some players, then a horn section, then a trip to Sweden to “write with the big boys.”
It is now October 19th 2008, and I have just finished the last vocal of the 11th song that is to be on my album entitled “Save Love”
To me, this is unbelievable and not in a million years did I think I would be this far on a dream. Even yesterday I had to take a second to soak it all in. There is a lot that went into this album from start to finish. Some stuff I will take with me forever, and some stuff I am happy with leaving right where it is.
“SAVE LOVE”.