The Unbearable Loneliness Of A Modern Day Bohemian
BIOGRAPHY
Brandon Caulfield was born in Seattle, Washington on February 12th 1987. Caulfield is the only son of Renée and Robert Caulfield. He has lived in Seattle all of his life and is of Irish and French descent. His great grandfather moved his family from Dublin to Seattle in the early 40’s and his mothers family moved from Calais, France to New York in 1962.
Caulfield was brought up around music from an early age and his first memory’s of music was his mother playing Brigitte Bardot records but it was after hearing a collaboration between Brigitte Bardot & Serge Gainsbourg when he started to become obsessed with music.
His father was a more conventional rock fan and this affected Brandon’s music education, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Eagles, Tom Petty, Van Morrison and Eric Clapton are all heavily embedded into Brandon’s memories of his childhood and have now became big influences on his own style.
He was always an outsider at school from a very early age and quickly came to resent the people around him, often isolating him in his bedroom for hours, his parents often tried to get him into therapy to figure out why he was so content on being isolated from the real world.
And when he became a teenager, the pressure’s to fit in at school and be popular continued to fuel his resentment for his fellow teenagers, he continued to isolate himself and has stated that he only ever had one close friend called Isabel.
He would spend almost all of his free time in his room reading and scribbling down things on paper and writing down almost everything that popped into his head, it was during this period when he started to learn his craft as a songwriter and soon decided to take up guitar, his parents chose not to buy him a guitar, stating that school was more important than trying to be John Lennon. He therefore decided to take matters into his own hands and stole an acoustic guitar from a record store during a trip to Los Angeles, claiming he found it on the street whenever asked by his parents about it.
He dropped out of school at 16 with no grades and he took a job as a cleaner at a local shopping mall, he recalls that he’d often see former school students and says that the look that they gave him while cleaning the floors is the fuel he uses to become “a better person than they’ll ever be.”
He held down this job for 3 years and at the age of 19 he decided to attempt to make it in music, playing various small clubs in the local area, often playing to maximum crowds of 15 people. He stated that although it was tough financially, the freedom of it was the thing he had been searching for all his life.
His education in the form of formal qualifications is non existent but his education as a person is what makes him unique, his fondness for literacy and poetry is almost obsessive, often quoting Edgar Allan Poe and Jack Kerouac during performances, he has self destructive periods in his life, often disappearing for months to isolate himself and is often searching for clarity in his life, he has described himself as a loose cannon but stopped to point out that he isn’t violent in the slightest.
As a performer his style is very recognizable for it’s intensity and his dark vocals, he is shy and retiring at the best of times and struggles with self doubt.
He is now planning a music career and is looking for a record label, but until then he will continue to perform wherever will have him.
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DISCOGRAPHY
ALBUMS
Into The Wild Part I [February 21, 2011] [#8, USA]
Into The Wild Part II[TBA]
SINGLES
Silent Night [December 17, 2010] [#13, Top20]
Until Your Nothing [February 6, 2011] [#5, Top20]
Edited by user 22 February 2011 01:34:06(UTC)
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