The main thing you should know about Gabriel Mann is that he's a good guy. The next thing you should know is that he writes and performs his songs while retaining a sense of humor, a grip on reality, and a need for honesty. His songs are both intensely personal and universal, intricate, yet catchy. Mann truly sounds like no one else, at once gentle and breathy, and in the next moment soaring and powerful.
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The main thing you should know about Gabriel Mann is that he's a good guy. The next thing you should know is that he writes and performs his songs while retaining a sense of humor, a grip on reality, and a need for honesty. His songs are both intensely personal and universal, intricate, yet catchy. Mann truly sounds like no one else, at once gentle and breathy, and in the next moment soaring and powerful.
Mann has done just about everything there is to do in the music world, including composing scores for video games and TV shows. He produced Sara Bareilles' Careful Confessions, wrote songs for Fox's Arrested Development, opened for Alanis Morissette's European tour and for Jamie Cullum here in the States, sang all the island fare in Office Space, and opened for the Rolling Stones while playing with Tim Burgess. Somewhere in there he finds time to make his own records.
Mann's songs have been licensed to many TV shows and films, and garnered several awards, including the Overall Grand Prize in the 2003 USA Songwriting Competition for "Lighted Up." Radio & Records named Gabriel one of their "Artists to Watch for 2005," and he's one of Music Connection's top 100 Unsigned Artists in Los Angeles. Most recently, he won the Just Plain Folks Awards 2nd prize in the College Rock Album category (out of over 25000 albums) and was a finalist in the 2007 International Songwriting Competiition for “Eight Feet Tall” from the upcoming “Tall Buildings.”
Mann's first record came out in 1999, and his fifth, “Tall Buildings,” a full-length album of all new material, will be released September 4, 2007.
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