To you, the reader,
As I sat down at my computer to compose the “About Kevin” section of this website, I found myself at a loss for words. I cannot tell you how difficult it was for me to try to convey my artistic intentions to you, the reader, in a manner that was eloquent, informative, and succinct without fearing that I would inevitably wind up plunging headlong into the cataclysmic abyss of the cliché. Nevertheless, the Spirit so moved me.
I recorded my very first album in March of 2003. The album was titled Finding Tulsa. It had nine guitar songs, three piano songs, and one bonus track that I had written to sound like a Pink Floyd song. Of the 13 tracks on the album, which I do not enjoy listening to, only three of the songs actually meant something. One of those songs, “Waterslide,” has survived the scrutinizing tests through which I subject every individual work of art I create once an extended period of time has elapsed since its inception, and thus appears in much better form on my official debut piano album, To Whom It May Concern.
While I find that my earliest songs are best described as aesthetically mediocre and lyrically obtuse, in the seven years since my “career” as a singer/songwriter began I have experienced the most utterly mysterious and unfathomable facet of life typically referred to as growing up. At some point or another I started becoming more concerned with what was happening in the world around me. I began reflecting very deeply, very personally on life, love, who we are as a people and where we’re going.
My wondrous fascination with studying History, Theology, and the Sacred Scriptures have filled me with a genuine desire to look for God in all things. I have come to appreciate ever so much more the Catholic faith my parents loved and believed in so much as to teach it to me. I have come to see the various ways in which art has been taken hostage within the suffocating confines of our American popular culture, the worst of which can be clearly observed in modern art’s generous acceptance and subsequent reflection of values which are at best morally relative. I have come to believe in the words of the late Pope John Paul II, that the work of artists can and should reflect genuine “epiphanies of beauty” and “moments of grace.” Having developed a style uniquely my own, it is my fervent hope and desire that my songs might serve you well as musically affecting, lyrically poignant reflections on the human in light of the divine.
If you’ve read this far, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I hope you have enjoyed reading what I felt so compelled to write. Likewise, I truly hope that you will enjoy my music, if, that is, the good Lord so moves you to give it a closer listen.
Those of you who don’t know me personally may find this a bit odd, but I simply do not feel that it is appropriate to end this any other way than by wishing you, the reader, a truly blessed and merry Christmas! May God bless us, everyone!
Sincerely,
Kevin Heider