Ask him how he feels about his many songs artists have recorded from the early 80s through the present age. His response: "I've been at this how long? I'm old". Ask him about his many accomplishments (multiple songs recorded, #1 singles and five separate Dove Award nominations) and the number of people he has affected over his thirty plus years in the music and business of Contemporary Christian music. His answer: "thanks God, now what's next"? The truth is clear about Geoff Thurman. Like oth...
Ask him how he feels about his many songs artists have recorded from the early 80s through the present age. His response: "I've been at this how long? I'm old". Ask him about his many accomplishments (multiple songs recorded, #1 singles and five separate Dove Award nominations) and the number of people he has affected over his thirty plus years in the music and business of Contemporary Christian music. His answer: "thanks God, now what's next"? The truth is clear about Geoff Thurman. Like other artists of his nature and background, he's a difficult man to figure out, even though he wears his heart on his sleeve.He began writing songs in the mid 70s during his senior year in high school, although his parents heard him banging at the piano or guitar many years before that. He began singing at the ripe old age of six. Even then, there was a certain flare about his performance style. He listened and watched. "I was drawn to certain people because of how they communicated, not what they communicated". Most of his contemporaries drew from wells filled with the likes of Andre Crouch, Dallas Holm and Chris Christian. "I had a really cool family to whom I owe my musical influences". Those inspirations still range from Hendrix, Joplin, the Beatles and the Jackson Five to Prince, the Black Eyed Peas, Jon Mayer, Ella Fitzgerald, the Duke, Sting, Stevie Wonder, David Matthews, The Mills Brothers and B. B. King.His first published song was recorded by Amy Grant in the early 80s. With over a thousand published titles and hundreds of recorded songs under his belt, he still dreams about what his next opportunity might be. Rejection is a living monster living at the center of his career - something he doesn't handle as well as he could. Still he's undaunted when invited to create for television scores or cable network programming where his name will never be seen. He lives with an old-fashioned work ethic, not considering himself particularly "gifted", but just willing to have fun while working beyond the point of exhaustion to see the completion of a work. "The fun is in the journey, but the end of the road is gonna feel pretty nice, too. I work hard, sweat and feel physically strained when the job is over. Then, I do it all over again. I still wouldn't have it any other way".While his first solo project, "Unseen Child" found its way to early nomination for the coveted Dove Award, he was disappointed that it never had the serious look it should have. "The people who live here in the real world seem to embrace this kind of naked honesty in me more than anything else". Whether he speaks of his former collaboration with television and Broadway star, Matt Dickens, or his next recording project ("DEEPER SHADES OF BLUE"), Geoff is always trying to push the envelope. "I don't expect to get an overwhelming response by the business. It doesn't really matter anymore because I don't write for business any longer".Regardless of what the future brings for Geoff Thurman, be well assured that you will find him where he is most comfortable: on the edge of cliff.
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