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Davis Gloff:

OPERA SINGER TURNED ADVOCATE

Davis Gloff began his career as an opera singer and has sung for decades with orchestras and opera companies all over the country. He still does opera and concerts with orchestras and concert bands, both as soloist and Master of Ceremonies

He does one man recitals for many groups and fund raisers, never planning what he's going to do in advance. He knows what to do when he looks the audience in the eye.

Davis has been a member of the Screen Actors Guild for over thirty years, and had a couple of lines in the Clint Eastwood Movie "Gran Torino" and a part in "Judicial Consent" with Bonnie Bedelia. He also has done lots of training films and television and radio commercials He also plays the piano, entertains at parties and has been a classical music Radio program host in Detroit, where he has lived all his life. Googling "Davis Gloff" usually results in the latest stuff he's up to,.

His business card has a quote from a friend who was introducing him for a recital:

"Davis is famous, and not many people know that."

Then he realized that a musician , especially a singer, is a sculptor who carves in sand. He started writing, both songs and poetry, as a response to the feeling of needing some permanence. It's also a means of putting his own feelings into concrete form in addition to expressing the needs and desires of other composers.

It turns out he's not bad at it.

The late and much beloved Molly Ivins said:

"The best way to get the sons of bitches is to make people laugh at them."

Davis Gloff believes that.

These songs were written during the Presidency of George W. Bush, and with a few small word changes, are still pertinent.

Lately, Davis has taken to writing a gentler form of music, but his indignance at people being abused by power remains intact.

More will be coming.

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