By age 11, AdriAnne was playing publicly in pubs and coffee houses. By age 13 she was discovered by a famous music producer, Steve Hodge, who had worked on projects for Prince, Janet Jackson, Sting, and Mariah Carrie, to name just a few. Steve produced AdriAnne's first 12-song collection, Stages of the Sun, which was released when AdriAnne had just turned 14. Her followup release, Live at the Southern, was recorded just before she turned 15. After recording her third project from age 15-16, Then The Rain Came, AdriAnne decided to take a stylistic turn and never released the project.

I'm including this section because, for many people, I'm simply known as "AdriAnne's dad." Although I no longer am directly involved in co-writing with AdriAnne or executive producing her projects, I do feel that my contributions to her body of work reveal a part of my communications sensibilities that can not be understood any other way.

This was AdriAnne's first project recorded from age 12 - 14. My role was as father/mentor, co-writer on some of the tracks and creative director. SOTS received some nice recognition for a debut project by a complete unknown. For example, four of these songs were featured on the MTV's The Hills. Other recognition includes:

Because we knew that people imagined AdriAnne was some kind of "studio creation," we set out to do a live recording that would prove otherwise. Live at the Southern was recorded a few days before AdriAnne's 15th birthday and was released as a CD/DVD combo with the video from the full show on the DVD. On this project I was the executive producer and producer.

“I saw her perform in Chicago with an audience largely consisting of musicians. She held this group of professionals enraptured, and we all found one thing unbelievable and asked each other the same question as one voice: ‘Is she really 14?’ Apparently so, and she’s a little like Jewel, except tougher, and a little like Liz Phair, but not quite as edgy. She writes a heckofa song.”

When it was time to record AdriAnne's third record we turned to producer, Chris Grainger. Although he did an excellent job and I believe the songs are amazing, AdriAnne took a suden left turn and decided she wanted to pursue more of a folk music career than folk-pop. Subsequently this record was completed—then shelved. The goods news is there's currently talk of releasing this to iTunes. Here I executive produced and creative directed.

Click here for a track called "Eighteen" from this record.