Gavin Degraw - Picozone.nl
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Gavin Degraw - Picozone.nl
* Biography * Songs * Genre Music * attacked * career Gavin Degraw Attacked: Genre It was 4:00 a.m. on Monday when Gavin Degraw was walking the streets of New York. It was then when he got into an argument with a couple of strangers. Soon enough they started using violence. Gavin Degraw got beaten up. someone called 911 after seeing him lying on the ground, bleeding. he was rushed to the Bellevue hospital's emergancy room. He had a broken nose, a concussion and several cuts and bruises. The identities of those strangers still remain unknown. Gavin DeGraw's music has different genres: Blue-eyed soul, Pop rock and rock. Blue-Eyed soul: blue-eyed soul als known as white soul music, has gotten his name because it is soul music performed by white performers, and usually also a white audience. Pop Rock: Is a mix of a cathy tune and some light lyrics. But it depends per person wether they find a song fitting to the genre pop-rock. Rock: Rock finds it's roots in the rock and roll. It changed over the years by influences of rhythm and blues and country music. Another song I really like is; More than anyone. It sort of is the song of my boyfriend and I. I have liked him for a long time, and this song always makes me think of him. He likes the song alot too. The song is about loving someone more than anyone else, and never wanting to leave him/her. I first heard this song when I was wathcing One Tree Hill. the songn is played during a wedding. It was a beautiful scene. Gavin Degraw www.picozone.nl Gavin Degraw grew up in The Catskills in New York. He began to sing and play piano when he was only * years old. HIs older brother Joey urged him to write his own songs.After having tried to schools he stopped going to colllege and started working while also working on his music career by himself. Gavin degraw really started getting famous after his first hit 'I don't wanna be which also was chosen as theme song in the famous soap One Tree Hill. GAvin Degraw also has some small parts in this soap himself! Biography Why this song? I chose this song because I think the lyrics are very beautiful. they are about being youself and not someone who you aren't. In life it helped me to not do things that the real "me" wouoldn't do. and to stay close to who I really am. I especially listened to this song when I went back to Chad for a week. I have lived there for 4 years as a child. And i was really excited about going back. I missed my friends there, and was very excited about seeing my old house and school. Listening to that song and being back there reminded me of who I wanted to be. That was really special for me. And it also made me realize that I want to live there again as soon as I am finished with school. After a few months of working on his own, he caught the eye of Debbie Wilson an owner of a club. Debbie Wilson became his manager and soon enough he got a record deal at Warner Chappel Music. H1: Biography Blz 4+5 H2: Interview about his music Blz 6+7 H3: Attacked Blz 8 H4: Genre Blz 9 H5: Lyrics Blz 10+11 H6: Why this song? Blz 12+13 H7: Motto Blz 14 "To leave this world a better person, and for me to be the only one to know it" Motto van Gavin Degraw: Gavin Degraw: "Maybe if I grew up in a beautiful little perfect town, that I would want to bounce it out by making my music a bit more filthier and angry just to scuff it up. Like you know when you get a pair of shoes which are too polished that you just want to drag them behind your car? I think I grew up in an area with enough grit to it that I just wanted to make it a little bit prettier." I'm surrounded by liars everywhere I turn I'm surrounded by imposters everywhere I turn I'm surrounded by identity crisis everywhere I turn Am I the only one who noticed? I can't be the only one who's learned! -CHORUSCan I have everyone's attention please? If you're not like this and that, you're gonna have to leave I came from the mountain The crust of creation My whole situation-made from clay to stone And now I'm telling everybody -CHORUS- Inhoud: Music: Gavin Degraw - I Dont Wanna Be I don't need to be anything other, Than a prison guard's son I don't need to be anything other, Than a specialist's son I don't have to be anyone other, Than the birth of two souls in one Part of where I'm going, is knowing where I'm coming from I don't want to be Anything other than what I've been trying to be lately All I have to do is think of me and I have peace of mind I'm tired of looking 'round rooms wondering what I've got to do or who I'm supposed to be I don't want to be anything other than me "When I first started playing music it was just because I liked the way it sounded. In fact I didn't actually start listening to words until deep into my teenage years. The words just always seemed only sounds, I was always only involved into the music element. And it took me a long time to really start appreciating the music lyrics. What allowed me to appreciate the lyrics the most is that one day. I think i was 15 or 16, and i was learning these cover songs on the piano. My brother came to me and said, why don;t you write a song? and i said; why, all the best songs already have been written? and he said; well if you don't write them, why should anybody remember you? He was really challenging me, and there's nothing more effective than a challenge from you brother.