Today we’d like to introduce you to Maurice Davis.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Maurice. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
I came up with the idea after I lost my voice. I had sang over 200 shows a year for four years and it was starting to take a toll on my vocal chords. My real gift has always been in songwriting and I wanted to find a way to use that gift to not only sustain a career in music but more importantly bring something to the public that had never been available before. I had been playing and writing music for 22 years and my business partner and guitar player had been doing the same with his own studio for ten years so it was the natural progression that we felt qualified to make. It’s a bold approach to say that we will custom make a full on production, from scratch, every single song and it be the same level of quality every time. But we believe in our talents and have put in the hard work that was necessary to get here.
Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
It has not. This is a business concept that doesn’t exist. Completely custom and personalized songs based on the stories of each client with radio quality production and sound? It’s not a thing. So people aren’t exactly looking for it even though they would love to have it. Education has been the biggest challenge but everything of value comes at a cost. Not always monetary but if you want the big success at the end, you have to be willing to struggle for it. If you are willing to understand your strengths and bring in the right people who cover your weaknesses, it can be a bigger success than you hoped for.
Put Me In A Song – what should we know? What do you do best? What sets you apart from the competition?
What sets us apart is that we are the only ones who do what we do. We write and record custom, personalized songs for whatever someone wants their song to be about. And it’s their story, whatever genre they want, whatever style they want it in. A wedding song that tells your love story. A retirement song that commemorates your years of hard work. A memorial song that sings of a legacy. A song about women’s empowerment. The subjects are only limited to the client’s imagination. It’s the perfect gift because who doesn’t want a song about them? And every story is unique. You really don’t understand how impactful this is until you get a video back of the wife crying and completely moved by the words of her love story with her spouse. Or a poem that a grandma wrote for her twin premature born grandkids who are both now 11 years old. I’m proud of every song because it’s another life that we have touched in a way that had never been possible before. We treat these songs as if they were going on our original albums and it comes across in the finished version. You could hear these songs on the radio and that’s a quality level you won’t find anywhere else.
What is “success” or “successful” for you?
It’s easy to define success by looking at your bank account but that’s not always accurate. Especially when your profits are going back into the company. You have to look at the impacts you’re having on the public. Are you providing people with something they need and want? Are they merely satisfied or elated? Are you creating something that will one day become as commonplace as a car? Those are the kinds of things that define success to me.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.putmeinasong.com
- Phone: 979-218-4280
- Email: info@putmeinasong.com
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