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Barry French - Public

Barry French, or "Big Blue" as his friends call him, has been writing and playing music for over two decades now. He began his musical journey as a drummer, playing every Sunday at his local church. Soon after that, he learned the guitar and a whole new world opened up to him: the world of songwriting.

After many years of playing in bands Barry made the decision in 2007 to focus solely on song writing and song production. Within a few months he had landed 4 co-writes with the artist Eowyn for her third album, produced by Grammy-nominated producer Travis Wyrick. The first single, "Silent Screams," which rose to #17 on the National R&R Christian Rock Charts and the second single, "Life," were two of his four co-writes.

In 2008 Barry was hired to co-write and also record three albums for Counterpoint Music with two of the albums being modern Praise & Worship and the third being a more traditional Gospel style. He will be writing two more for them in 2009.

Barry produces the majority of his work in his home studio. He is capable of recording drums, guitars, bass, keys and vocals. He has pro level equipment such as DW drums, Zildjian cymbals, Schecter and Fender guitars, Shure and AKG microphones, as well as dozens of virtual instruments on his PC-based Pro Tools LE 8.0 system.

As if being a songwriter weren't enough, Barry is an independent engineer and producer as well.

So far in 2009 Barry has signed deals with five different music libraries to represent dozens of songs from his catalog as well as having two songs placed in an episode of MTV's Parental Control.

http://www.bigbluebarry.com