Today we’d like to introduce you to David Lunsford.
David, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
I decided when I was thirteen that I wanted to be a musician and make records. There were pictures in my head of songs and I couldn’t find them anywhere, so I knew I had to make them up myself. Skip about two years down the road of trial and error, and I finished my first song called “Pharaoh.” It was recorded on my iPod touch in my voice memos app and you can literally hear my dad walk in and interrupt the recording at one point, but it felt so big to me, and since then I’ve just been addicted to creating music. I’ve never felt like I had a lot of control over myself mentally, but music has always been a space for me to feel big, no matter how small I felt in a big city like Dallas.
Has it been a smooth road?
I would consider every day its own obstacle in many ways. One thing I’ve learned from being a musician and meeting other wonderful creators is that we all have our own stories of having to validate what we do to our families or friends who are asking the question “why?” Why do I want to devote my life to making music? Why not go into a more predictable field? I know who I am, and its a songwriter, I’ve accepted at this point that I’ll never love anything as much as making music, so there’s nothing else in life worth chasing.
On the flip-side getting to speak with people who really listen to your music and experience your art for what you intended it to be is the coolest thing I’ve ever experienced. In the end, I have infinite faith in the music I put out. We’re all looking for something we can believe in, that’s what “dvd” is for me, and I want to share that with as many ears as I can.
Can you give our readers some background on your music?
There are so many different angles at which I approach different songs but I think at the heart of my music there is this innate desire to be understood. I’ll write a song that feels like I’m painting this grotesque picture on a wall in hopes that some passerby might stop and say “hey, I feel that way too, now I don’t feel as alone as before.”
Let’s touch on your thoughts about our city – what do you like the most and least?
Dallas is great to me because the music scene here doesn’t feel oversaturated. If you’re ok at what you do and have fun with it, it’s not too hard to feel like you’re somebody here. The city welcomes you in that way. Dallas is too big of a concept to find real criticisms, cause there will always be someone or somewhere to prove you wrong.
Contact Info:
- Website: soundcloud.com/dvdlovesyou
- Instagram: dvdlovesyou
- Facebook: dvdlovesyou
- Twitter: dvdlovesyou
Image Credit:
Jessica Waffles, Nikki Lis
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