He gained national recognition in 2014 when he was in the top five on Season 13 of “American Idol.” That same year he released his debut EP, working with a Grammy Award winning producer. He has also worked with a Grammy nominated engineer and he has co-headlined an event with the Doobie Brothers, War, and Jefferson Starship. A singer, songwriter, guitar player who just relocated to Los Angeles, he also had one of his original songs debut at the Sundance Film Festival. He's performing next week at the Winter NAMM Show in Anaheim and hopes to release a new song each month this year.
"I have, like a, kind of a strange writing process sometimes. I don't really know what I'm writing about until ideas come out, like, until, like, towards the end."
"Just as of last week I made the move out here to California from Boston."
"I didn't have that much experience performing before I was on (American Idol), and, so that was super nerve wracking for me, a lot of my performances, but each time it got easier."
"(American Idol) is a great experience overall but it's a lot thrown at you at once, and one time was good for me. I'm glad I got it out of the way."
"I was listening to a lot of Ed Sheeran and Chris Daughtry and I kind of drew inspiration from those guys when I was first starting to write."
"The (voice) training that I had was from an opera singer, I had for three years."
"I'm lucky enough to be able to do the corporate events and not have to do the bars anymore because that's just brutal."
"You"
"An Old New Home"
Bonus audio content with Sam Woolf on Patreon