Colors

What do you contact an acoustic pop group who started performing at a higher school assembly, after that started their own label, and recorded four CDs before finishing university? The answer is merely “Shades.” Russ Dixon, Ryan Merrill, and Brian Tibbets initial sang their melody “Rainfall” at an set up at Davis SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in Kaysville, UT, in 1994. More than the next many years, the group provides stayed jointly, with just a two-year break when each one of the group’s associates offered as full-time missionaries for the Cathedral of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The motivation for Shades’ music is certainly their love from the music itself. “We are producing music because it’s what we should are interested in,” says Dixon. While they want to delve into a number of styles, which range from sluggish ballads to solid reggae beats, their music includes a unique sound all its. One unique element of their music is definitely that it’s wholesome without having to be as well “bubblegum.” When asked about the clean quality of their music, Tibbets replied, “I simply write about existence. I assume because there is not anything unwholesome about my entire life it displays through the music.” After their overall performance debut in 1994, the people timidly recorded just 500 copies of their 1st CD, VIRTUALLY NO TIME in Particular, in the demand of relatives and buddies. When their backpacks had been sold out from the 1st 500, they produced 500 even more, which sold-out just like quickly. As Colours provides expanded its functionality venue from schools and high academic institutions regional to Utah and Idaho to viewers in Norfolk, VA, as well as Thailand, they search for the viewers to become full of energy, enthusiastic, and appreciative of their sentiments. They prefer to possess a relationship using the audience if they perform. Merrill says they are actually worried about the viewers’ knowledge with the group. “We watch everyone who listens to your music as close friends and we’d love to become familiar with them even more. We are worried about them, as any true friend will be. Those who’ve noticed Shades perform are impressed by the down-to-earth quality from the band’s associates. Popularity hasn’t place any superstars in these men’ eye. They still worth people over power and glamour plus they keep dear the camaraderie they possess with each other.” “Our camaraderie is just about the best thing that people have developed of these previous seven many years of executing together. We realize one another like brothers,” says Dixon. You should definitely hanging out with family, producing music, or learning, the group’s users enjoy hobbies such as for example studying for any pilot’s license, hill biking, and building. Nevertheless, they’ll be producing music together for some time longer. Merrill claims, “much like anything in existence, the duration of the ride is definitely unknown…thus for as soon as just kickback and revel in the trip.”