By the age of 15, he had little interest in classical music or hymns and became an unmotivated student. His parents even found and purchased an inexpensive ($50) upright piano for him at an estate sale! However, after some dramatic family events, a move from Oregon to Colorado and three different piano teachers in three years, David quit his lessons. When David was 12, the pianist at his church agreed to help him get started in formal piano lessons. To this day he credits the Monkees TV show with instilling in him the desire to be a musician. His musical influences during these impressionable years? Beyond listening to his mother's Elvis, Paul Anka and Beach Boys records, David was an avid fan of The Monkees. He had a natural, inborn ear for music, and when he was at "grandma and grandpa's" he'd gravitate toward that keyboard, sit down, and "find", by ear, melodic lines he heard on the radio and TV. Unplayed, that is, until David discovered it. Even so, his grandparents on his mother's side, who lived nearby, had an old-timey electric organ that sat unplayed at their home. His family was the furthest thing from musical - there wasn't a musician (or even a singer) in the bunch. If you knew David in those days, you never would have expected him to grow up to become a musician. His mother, a diner cook and waitress, took on the job as "full-time amazing mom" while his father worked at Georgia-Pacific, the local lumber mill. Watch a short concert performance at the ZMR Music Awards.ĭetails for those Interested in the Minutia:ĭavid was born in November 1965 and lived his young life in Coos Bay, Oregon. In his capacity as the founder and CEO of Whisperings radio, he's produced and performed events with seventy-five other pianists, including contemporary piano legends David Lanz, Peter Kater, Wayne Gratz and Suzanne Ciani.ĭavid continues to compose music, and greatly enjoys hiking and photography.ĭavid Nevue is proud to be an official Shigeru Kawai artist. A seasoned performer and storyteller, David began to book, produce, and promote his own concert tours across the USA in churches, piano galleries, schools - and even in fan's homes. In the mid 2000's, David's name gained widespread recognition due in part to the proliferation of his music on Pandora Radio. David's work as both independent artist and entrepreneur led to feature articles, interviews and mentions in BusinessWeek (now Bloomberg), The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone and numerous other blogs and publications. Shortly thereafter, he founded Whisperings: Solo Piano Radio, the first internet radio broadcast to feature solo piano music exclusively. By 2001, the income from David's music-business ventures enabled him to quit his "day job" at Symantec Corporation. Updated regularly over the next ten years, How to Promote became the authoritative work (and even college textbook) of its day on the topic of online music marketing. To document his processes, in 1997, David wrote and published the first edition of his book, How to Promote Your Music Successfully on the Internet. By his late twenties, his creative efforts were focused almost entirely on music, and he was releasing a new album of compositions every couple of years.Īn early adopter of digital media, David found success selling his CDs online while growing a mailing list of buyers and fans. This eventually led to his first album of piano works, The Tower, written as a soundtrack for one of his short stories. Captivated and inspired, David began to compose "song poems" of his own at the piano. David had never heard anything like it… "solo piano" that was neither classical nor jazz. That began to change his freshman year of college when his roommate introduced him to the piano music of George Winston. During his teenage years, he pursued creative writing - especially poetry - as his preferred vehicle for artistic expression. David’s music can be heard virtually anywhere you listen to music, including Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, Amazon Music, Alexa ("Alexa, play David Nevue"), YouTube, SiriusXM Satellite Radio, Music Choice and Pandora Radio.ĭavid is a self-taught pianist. David's music has surpassed 1.7 Billion spins on Pandora Radio, a remarkable feat for an independent artist. His latest album, 2019's In the Soft Light of Grace, went to #1 on both the and iTunes music sales charts for his genre and entered the top 5 on Billboard's album charts. David has released seventeen albums of his original piano works and arrangements, including two "Piano Album of the Year" winners Overcome (2005) and Winding Down (2015). David Nevue is an internationally recognized pianist, composer, recording artist and "icon of the genre" (to quote Jamey Osborne of Audiosyncracy at the 2015 ZMR Music Awards).
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