Introducing

Shannon England

Shannon England was raised in Adairsville,

Georgia, a small, country town in the

northwest area of the state.   He refers to

himself as an athletic, band-geek

because he's always loved participating

in sports, but he also played the trumpet

in the Adairsville band for eight years and

performed in several drama productions. 

After graduating high school, he studied

Drama, Music and Physical Education at

the University of Georgia from 1994-2000. 

Shannon traveled all across the country

with the Lady Bulldog basketball team, as

a manager and practice player.  One of the

cities visited was Nashville where he eagerly

attended a Grand Ole Opry show at the historic

Ryman Auditorium.  "I was blown away by all of it,"

Shannon said, even the older guys with the

sequined jackets!  I already loved music and writing

lyrics at that point, but I realized I wanted to be

doing what they were doing and loving it like they

were loving it!   

Shannon began writing songs in 1996 and has

written songs in all genres of music. 

Desperately needing some musical accompaniment,

he eventually taught himself to play guitar. 

While working a full-time career selling Verizon

Wireless, Shannon has spent his nights writing

and playing as much as possible.  "I just sit around

and write, " He said, the Blue Bird Cafe a Nashville

Songwriters Show) always inspires me.  I watch

it on TV and I've been there and seen the most

laid back, country people you could find play a

#1 song they wrote for a big star.  People don't

always realize that the artists rarely write their

hits by themselves.  They usually get the song

from a publishing company or at least co-write

with a great writer.  It takes both a great

writer for lyrics and a great artist to interpret

the song so that it's appealing. 

Shannon says he loves to sing and be in the

spotlight.  However, his true passion is writing

and creating the songs.  In April of 2003, Shannon

was introduced to a producer, Max Archer from

Dallas, Texas.  Max worked with Shannon on the

business side of songwriting and helped him

complete his first demo CD, featuring twelve

original songs.  The songs chosen for his first

demo have more of a country, ballad feel. 

They show his style of writing heartfelt

songs expressing emotions that everyone

has experienced or will experience at some

point in life.  He has since written many songs

he says are more radio ready.  I am writing

more divers lyrics now, but I will continue to

write slow ballads, Shannon said, I can't help it. 

That's what comes out of me when I pick

up my guitar and play a chord and think about

my life.  I've learned so much in the last couple

of years about what's appealing to the

world ..TRUTH!  Something that sounds

good and speaks the truth has a chance of

making it, and that's all I'm asking for

a chance.                        

 

 

                                         

 

  

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