Todd Sansom

Nation singer and pianist Todd Sansom comes from the Blue Ridge Mountains area close to Charlottesville, Virginia, and he was attracted to music early, taking piano lessons by enough time he was 4 years of age. Blessed with an hearing that allowed him to try out a melody after just hearing it once, he quit over the sheet music edition of playing piano by enough time he was nine. He previously the air, though, that was always filled with songs, particularly nation, with 15 he considered nation music as his primary concentrate, fronting and playing keyboards in a number of bands through the entire area. Realizing he previously to maintain Nashville, the town in the centre of nation music, he enrolled at Belmont College or university there in nov 1996, majoring in vocal efficiency. Quickly he was playing showcases in the Nashville region, and he captured the interest of country tale Kenny Rogers, who got Sansom audition in 2000 for the co-lead vocalist spot in a fresh band known as Marshall Dyllon that Rogers was piecing together to record on Rogers’ personal Dreamcatcher Information. Sansom approved the audition and he was all around the band’s debut recording, Enjoy the Trip, not only managing business lead vocals, but also organizing harmonies, producing paths, and composing three tracks for the task. Dreamcatcher Records went into financial complications two years later on, though, and Marshall Dyllon proceeded to go inactive combined with the label. Sansom toured as keyboardist and history singer for a number of works, including Julie Roberts, Collin Raye, Steve Holy, Andy Griggs, and Tag Wills, and do studio use Trace Adkins, amongst others. He also continuing to function and tour like a single artist, liberating the self-titled Todd Sansom recording in 2007, and pursuing it with 2010’s Pourin’ It On, both through the Rapidan River label.