Practically anyone will tell you that if you start doing what you want to do in life at a young age, chances are, you will be successful at it when you get older. Whether you are a businessman, a football player, mathematician, or musician, that rule seems to apply. Even in the blues that is, as they say; Par for the course. BB King's first two initials reveal that -"Blues Boy" King. He passed the torch to many of the young players that are household names today; Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jonny Lang and Joe Bonamassa. They all began learning their blues chops when they were adolescents.
Which brings us to a young man in the Central Florida area that seems to be following their footsteps.
David Julia is in is teens and dead serious about the blues. It is not surprising that at the young age of seven he began preforming. On stage, it definitely shows. David is in a blues zone, confidently playing and singing the music he believes in and lives to preform.
I caught up with David Julia right before he took the stage at The Alley in Sanford, Fl (Home of the Blues in Central Florida for a number of years) What struck me about David, is that part of him is like any normal 15 year old today, taking in each and every day like a big sponge, while balancing homework, life and doing what your mother ask. The other part of him becomes ever so apparent when he straps the guitar on, plugs it into an amp and starts playing. He is the front man of his own Blues Band and working with guys three times his age and he has earned the respect of every one of them. David has the intangible gifts of the blues. He is reminiscent of a young Damon Fowler, whom I have had the pleasure of seeing his maturation in music since he was 16.
With a recording under his belt and the future in front of him, we are seeing a diamond in the ruff that will continue to be polished by experience and musical fortitude. Look for good things in the life and times of David Julia. http://www.davidjuliamusic.com/
