Brett Raymond

Like a lot of his contemporaries, Brett Raymond is a guy of several talents. Equivalent in skill to Lex de Azevedo and Jay Richards, Raymond loves a successful profession being a composer, arranger, vocalist/songwriter, and studio room musician. And he’s a genuine professional, gaining his livelihood through his music. “Brett is normally a genuine professional musician,” records veteran manufacturer Kenny Hodges, “unlike quite a few Latter-day Saint performers who dabble at songwriting or playing a musical instrument. Brett will everything and he’s one of the better. He makes a full time income at music…he’s written music for all sorts of creation, including songs which have appeared on Television and in films.” Educated at Brigham Youthful School, Raymond received a music offer to target his research on structure. He has appreciated considerable success within the media-composing world as the author of the theme for The Today Present and Wide Globe of Sports activities. He won many BPME honours for his function in Canadian Television. He in addition has released five single albums, and his pop tune, “Angel’s Gonna Discover You,” was highlighted over the soundtrack from the 1995 Greg Kinnear automobile Dear God. Additionally, he documented two singles over the Curb-MCA label using the music group Souvenir. While he’s appreciated success in every his abilities, he admits his initial love is normally live show. “I played inside a music group with him for two years,” records another veteran LDS maker, Clive Romney, “and both his vocals and his piano playing energized everyone within the music group. If I experienced to say just one single factor about Brett, it might be that whenever he takes on music, I smile both outside and inside!” Both met if they collaborated with an recording and filmstrip series for the seminary system of the Chapel of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “For a long time my personal favorite part of this business continues to be carrying out live,” Raymond says within an on-line interview. “I believe it is still the best, but I must say i love placing music to film. That is clearly a close second.” A few of his work with the media contains composing for promos and themes, which, he mentioned, can often be quite annoying. In one interesting example, he relates the tests he experienced to satisfactorily compose a 15-second promotional place for a significant wire network. “We’d dissected the piece into five different motions,” he relates, “and there have been changes in a few of those motions. The maker was therefore picky, and it had taken us so enough time, energy, and irritation for 15 secs worthy of of music!” He do ultimately make the manufacturer happy and it has since shifted to other, even more meaningful tasks. His stocks that his preferred composition may be the function he do for his single recording First Light: Moments From the Repair 1820-1830, Quantity 1. “It is the recording I’m most pleased with,” Raymond admits. “EASILY had to keep any one task for posterity, that might be the main one.” He programs to release Quantity Two of First Light sometime in 2001 or 2002, and it is working on tracks for this recording while managing his additional many tasks and fatherhood. “Brett Raymond is definitely a difficult person to spell it out,” says Hodges, who fulfilled him in university, “but I’d have to state he’s joyously passionate. Brett offers this type of like for the music he writes and performs, a like for enjoying existence, for his family members, and he’s actually such a good and content person. His existence reflects the pleasure and the enthusiasm he discovers in his musical profession.” Deseret Publication record label professional Laurel Christensen echoes the compliments for Raymond. “A very important thing about Brett is definitely his love of life. He’s among the funniest men I understand and he’s totally down to globe.” Deseret Publication may be the label on many of his produces. Raymond, wife Becky and their five kids reside close to the business in Bountiful, UT.