AUSTRALIAN ROCK MUSICIAN IS
“BACK IN THE GAME”
Article By Adriana Rubio
Photographs: Courtesy of Dean Williams.
Credits: Ian Ritter, Eric “Chowie” Chow, Nikita Allan
and William Luu
and William Luu
Dean Williams, a gifted rock musician, guitarist and songwriter from Australia is “Back In The Game” on a professional level with a full length rock album to be
released later in the year.
I met Dean in Los Angeles, CA in October 2012 and saw him perform an
acoustic set at KNAC Pure Rock Radio Station and at the Columbia
Memorial Space Center with singer-model-actress Xaria Rose. This was
for the Tawn Mastrey Foundation and Silent Auction event where
established rock stars such as Rudy Sarzo (Quiet Riot, Whitesnake, Dio) Carlos
Cavazo (Quiet Riot, Ratt, Hear N’Aid), Chas West and Alan Krigger
amongst many others attended to support a good cause that provides awareness
and education on Hepatitis C through arts and music.
Dean Williams visited California for two months on an adventure-music-business trip
on his own. During his stay he tested the waters of the American music business
and played some open gigs at the Rainbow as a skillful guest musician.
Although Dean got some interesting offers to become a signed solo artist
in the States, he decided to returned back to his hometown in Australia to
perfect his product. This particular experience is what gave birth to “Back
In The Game”. But before getting into that, I invite you to know more about
this amazing Australian artist.
Dean Williams
was born on August 21st, 1989 and at the age of 10 he entered into
the martial arts field studying and practicing Karate and some Kung Fu. At the
age of 12, Dean started practicing Fencing and as his skills improved he
was encouraged to train steadily for tournaments. Dean won a large
number of competitions in this sport.
At the age of 14 the passion for music started to become intense so Dean
decided to devote time to practicing and playing the guitar loud until the
present day. The early teenage years of martial arts training helped him to
focus and be disciplined with his guitar playing practice routine. He has
played many gigs across Australia, recorded jingles and has also worked as a
session musician.
Around the same time Dean started to train a bit of Boxing
for a little while to finally fall in love with Muay Thai at the age of
22, a discipline that he continues to practice today. Muay Thai fights
are going into a more professional level for Dean, although he says he
is not that good yet, he is a winning martial artist who is so passionate about
it as well as extremely respectful of all traditional aspects of being a martial
artist, including philosophy and rituals fighters do before jumping into the
ring.
Dean Williams made room to write the songs for his full length album to be released
later in the year. “Back In The Game” is his debut single that will be released
in the coming weeks and distributed worldwide by the Third Verse company.
I had the chance to listen to the single and I must say that this
Australian rocker Dean Williams has a bright and promising future.
The complete interview with Dean Williams, a very interesting one
we had about a month ago, will be uploaded on this blog when the single “Back In the Game” is out.
In the meantime you can visit the Dean Williams official Facebook
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