Singer/songwriter/producer/composer David Rice has covered a lot of ground

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in his fifteen year career. Just out of high school he honed his performance

chops at Houston clubs, packing houses with his acoustic-driven solo and band

shows. After releasing two albums on Justice Records he moved to Los Angeles

and signed with Columbia Records in the mid 90s. Recorded at Peter Gabriel's

Real World Studios, his self-produced 1998 release Greenelectric garnered

international praise for its adventurous musicality and lyricism. After parting with

Sony David began writing and producing for pop acts like Mandy Moore and

and developing new talent like Paige, who he produced and signed to Warner/

Word Records in 2000.

In 2001 David got his first taste of television when he wrote and performed an

original holiday song with Mandy Moore for TNT's Christmas in Washington. He

went on to co-write the main title theme to ABC's Hope and Faith and license

dozens of compositions to TV and film. The next year his haunting guitar work

became the signature of a Wachovia Bank ad campaign that ran from

2002-2006. David has since composed music for and/or performed in dozens of

national commercials, his organic instrumentation and voice appearing in spots

for AT&T, Coca-Cola, Folgers, Hyundai, and Ford.

Leaving California in 2005 and settling in Austin with his wife and son, David has

joined an exciting community of media makers with whom he is busy... making

media! He is an advisor to Students of the World, an Austin-based non-profit

working to raise public awareness of and activism on social issues affecting

international communities. With the gracious cooperation from Real World

Records, David scores the group's annual Clinton Global Initiative film series by

using a mix of original work and remixes of Real World tracks. He is associate

producer and composer for Crawford, USA, the forthcoming feature

documentary from Michener Fellow David Modigliani that explores Bush’s

impact on the small Texas town. And as executive producer with NYC-based

Face The Music he’s been producing music in GSD&M national spots for BMW

and AT&T.

Finally, he is pleased to step out from behind the scenes with the release of

Eighty Miles To Stand Up, arguably his clearest and most accessible solo album

to date. Look for David around Austin, Houston, and Dallas as he returns to the

stage in support of the new record.

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