Tiger Zane's Profile

I graduated from high school a year early and went to France for a year. In a tiny village about 2 miles above Evian, nestled in the Alps above Lake Geneva I found the inspiration for my first songs (who wouldn’t?). France, freedom and self-discovery were an intoxicating combination. Somehow I got a hold of an old classical guitar and played it for hours and hours writing melodic, deeply dramatic, romantic teen-age songs! I listened to a lot of Neil Young at the time. He is still an influence that I recognize now in my music—his sense of melody and song structure. When I came back to the US, I moved to Seattle and experienced harsh culture shock. Life and the parental argument that music is a terrible way to make a living and be happy, convinced me to let music fade into the background.

Although I pursued other creative endeavors, (interior design, photography, relationships…) something was always missing; my heart wasn’t engaged. In 1996, it all came to a crashing standstill when I was laid off from work and found myself desperate to find what the big IT was! I took some workshops geared toward finding your calling and realized that I would never be happy until I jumped wholeheartedly into music full time.

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