Bio
60′s pop, 70′s glitter rock, 80′s new wave, and modern alternative… Adam Daniel samples the best of his influences, producing powerpop meditations overflowing with lush harmonies, fuzz guitars, and surging drums.
Adam first came to public attention in 1999 with the release of his debut album Blue Pop. All Music Guide named the CD “…among the best guitar-pop albums of the ’90′s…” Finding fans worldwide, songs from Blue Pop were also featured in primetime television programs and movies: Felicity, Jack and Jill, Jenifer (starring Laura San Giacomo), and The Matthew Shepard Story.
In May 2000, Adam was invited to Miles Copeland’s annual Castle songwriting retreat in France. There, he co-wrote a ballad called “Christmas Morning” with country music mainstays John Berry and Kim Richey, recorded by Berry and released on the compilation A Country Superstar Christmas, Vol. 4 alongside tracks by Travis Tritt, Toby Keith, and Dolly Parton. CD NOW called the song “…one of the finest new tunes of this holiday season.”
Adam spent the rest of the decade songwriting, composing and producing music for film and television, and playing guitar for artists such as Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles and jazz saxophone diva Mindi Abair. He also explored literary interests, writing about parallels among spirituality, science, and artistic creativity for the weblog Poetic Interconnections.
In 2010 Adam Daniel founded Breathtaking Songs, a songwriting and music production house providing songs for popular artists and soundtracks. His collaboration with alt-country upstarts The Flutterbies yielded the single “Come Alive,” featured in 2011 in the Adult Swim/Cartoon Network television show Children’s Hospital. Two more tracks written with The Flutterbies, “Hummingbird Heart” and “Faith in Rain,” have recently been heard in the George Clooney film The Descendants.
Adam has also become an arts educator, developing and teaching a course called Spirituality, Science, and the Creative Process at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, CA. In addition, he works with Rock the Classroom, a nonprofit dedicated to restoring music education in underserved public schools, designing curriculum and teaching kids the fundamentals of songwriting.