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turning the world upside down with rock
n roll
David was born in Lima,
Peru in November 28, 1993. His mother was a painter and
his father was a graphic designer for an advertising agency,
and they soon moved to Ecuador in search of a better economic
standing. The whole Stewart family, including Ernesto Stewart,
David’s little brother, eventually migrated to South
Florida, still in the pursuit of a more promising future
for the family. David, knowing next to no English whatsoever,
struggled in the first
few years of elementary school. The language barrier proved to be something important
in his life and a great blessing in his career.
It was because of the culture shock and the difficulty communicating that led
David to purposely put himself in a position when making friends was almost mandatory-
in middle school he finally joined the school drama club, and was awarded the
role of Captain Von Trapp in the school’s production of The Sound of Music.
He continued on through the middle school to be the leading man in every production
for the next 3 years. As a freshman in high school, he
was also chosen as the Cat in the Hat in Seussical, where he won the Cappie Award
of Best in South Florida in the category of Lead Actor in a Musical, the most
competitive and acclaimed division. Here, too, he held either the lead actor
or the supporting lead actor in every show he presented himself in. |
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David wrote his first song
when he was 8 years old, and that led to experimenting with
different forms of art (writing, poetry, movie directing, etc)
until he found musical theater at age 11. After starting doing
the musicals in his school, his grandfather who lives in Peru
noticed and flew over. He taught David guitar, how to sing
better, and how to compose as well. After he returned to Peru
and David kept going by his own terms, and has not stopped
to date.He began to
compose at age 13, and has crafted
the art of song writing everyday to date. This led to a part
Berklee 5-Week Scholarship in
2010, and a full Rock Workshop 5 Week Scholarship in 2011. David
now has over 70 original
compositions and plays guitar, bass, drums and piano. He was
also chosen as 1 of 5 of the best
contemporary vocalists in the country by the National YoungArts
Association. Working as a
wedding singer and event entertainer for the past 2 years has
helped him save money to obtain
a small recording studio in his room, full equipped and functional.
David has also been producing
and mixing his own original music for many years, and has nearly
perfected a classic-rockpop
sound that has sealed most of his more mature compositions. After
years of listening to
groups like Led Zepplin, ACDC, The Beatles, Rush, and The Police,
he finally has found the
way to balance between a great, intelligent, challenging classic
rock song and fusing it with a
tasteful, fun, rewarding pop song over an image and a character
that is pleasing to audiences in
either a café, a stadium, or a TV broadcast alike.
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David doesn't
really have a "BAND" band… its more of an international
band really. He has his guitar player Juan Carreño
in Colombia and his drummer Ollie Harding in Whales, England.
Both were met while in Berklee College of Music during
a 5 week summer program, and they have stuck together and
written songs over Skype and Dropbox and recorded that
way as well. Right now they are each trying to go to college,
and it seems that Juan and David will be in Berklee together
for the next few years! David currently has several projects
under wraps and is composing a lot, performing a lot, and
just perfecting his craft.
What David is doing is just aiming for
a new kind of sound: a mix between classic hard rock (ACDC,
Led Zepp, Rush, etc) and modern pop/rock of today. Robert
Plant, Brian Johnson, Sting, and Glenn Hughes are some
of his all time greatest idols, but he also loves Alicia
Keys, Josh Groban, John Mayer, and Audioslave, so it's
a mix of all that good music together. It seems that now
he will be going to Berklee College of Music on a full
tuition scholarship on the world's first Lollapolooza Berklee
Scholarship. Plans are also being made for a few big concerts
at very important venues and events, maybe a few TV things… that
he cant give us details on at this time, but just lots
of big things coming up! As far as music "He would
like to see it go back to it's roots a bit more, less synthetic
and more about people and music and real thoughts… aka
not just weird computers buzzing to a beat and a girl singing "I
only have tonight, and I'm in a club, blah blah blah blah…" Bring
back good old rock n roll!" |
Of course he also adds that
, a healthy balance of the old with the new would be ideal,
seeing it made popular by playinf intelligent and difficult
rock and bringing that back to the mainstream. The internet
has allowed David and artists like him to stay in touch with
their dream bands! If it wasn't for technology, he wouldn't
be able to lay down the bass tracks and vocals, send it to
Whales for the drums and then send it to Colombia for lead
guitar. The artists need to understand the business side of
it, and the business side need to understand the creative process
involved with the artists.
David Stewart has been accepted to some of the best music schools
in the country
including Berklee College of Music in Boston and Belmont’s
Curb College of Music in Nashville,
as well as advancing as a possible candidate for the next season
of the hit TV show “The
Voice”. He dreams of being a widely recognized musician,
touring the world with a band and
playing and writing music until the day he dies. Music has changed
the world for him, and he
wants to return the favor.
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