LoPrinzi Player: David Milam
Website:
http://www.davidmilam.com/
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LoPrinzi player since:
Background:
Growing up surrounded by relatives playing guitar, banjo, harmonica and singing blues, country, gospel and folk music it is little wonder that David’s musical style is, as he would put it, “all over the road”. Participating in boy’s choirs, a capella groups, and as a teenager through voice training with Metropolitan Opera singer, Cleo Pettis he further increased his knowledge and skill of vocal music. When he was 11 his dad started teaching him to play a 6 string guitar, which lead him to learn the 12-string guitar, banjo and piano. At 16, David heard a singer/songwriter by the name of Jim Croce on the Tonight Show. Before Jim had finished his first song, David knew this was the type of music he wanted to play and started to work on his goal of playing guitar and singing to a listening audience. From fronting a top forty band in the eighties to a series of musical duos he found a way live out his dream as he pursued several careers including heavy equipment mechanic, golf course maintenance and senior computer programmer/analyst. In 2002 a fellow musician urged David to write his first song. Since then David has been writing lyrics and music that reveal his passion for life, celebrate the diversity of humanity, and the essentialness of finding joy along the way.
David plays about 100 gigs a year at coffee houses, house concerts, restaurants and festivals and has won awards for his songwriting from the Will McLain Foundation and for his fingerstyle guitar playing at the Gamble Rogers Festival. Most recently David was voted 2005 Songwriter of the Year by the Songwriters Showcases of America in DeLand Florida and his title track from his cd Livin Out My Dream won best Narrative Song of the Year by fans and staff of the SSA .
David is a Florida native and lives in Jacksonville with his wife Pamela, along with several very loved cats and a Jack Russell – Dachshund mix he calls Molly. Playing, singing and writing are happily not only a constant passion; it is also his full time occupation.