Brett
Westgrove
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Rocket Scientist Performing in the Country Music Scene-
Brett
Westgrove's chase for his dream started long before the spring of
2017 when he moved to Nashville. His passion for music began to show
at a young age in the farm country of central Wisconsin. Starting
with piano at age two and the guitar at age ten, Brett Westgrove has
literally been a musician since he was old enough to walk and talk.
Brett stayed involved in everything musical and constantly positioned
himself in front of any audience he could find.
When not
performing, Brett spent most of his time in the garage. Like his
father and two older brothers, he was into restoring cars. Among
those were a 1956 Thunderbird, 1968 Mustang, and Model-A Ford. During
high school, he spent his winters tearing apart his first car, a 1988
Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe, and swapping in a modified engine,
transmission, computer/electrical, brake and suspension components
from various performance models of Mustangs, from years ranging from
1990-2004. This project resulted in a car that was way too fast for a
teenager, yet totally unique.
Once he completed high school, Brett moved to California to work as a
lead-engineer and producer for a commercial recording studio and
production house by day, and continue to pursue his pop music career
by night. It didn't take Brett long to realize that the California
music scene was not for him. He decided to take a break from music
and attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, where––because
he "tends to find the hardest things he can take on"––he
studied Aerospace Engineering, and worked as a Command Controller.
After a
lifetime of building, designing, writing, and performing, Brett
realized it was the ART of designing and building, and less the
technical, math-based side of things that he was in love with, and
was finally forced to admit to himself that he was indeed an artist,
and packed his bags to move to Nashville.
When asked
about his goals, Brett described himself as overly obsessive. He also
said:
“My main goal is to be a
performer––a big stage performer. I believe not only music, but
musical personalities, have the ability to generate mass amounts of
good in this world––we are influencers who impact generations
across the board. I love life, I love people, and my main goal in
life is to inspire people through my actions and my music. I want to
be a positive role model for youth, and a driver of change for the
better of all people. Sounds cheesy, I know, but I’m guessing that
since you work in music you understand the power it truly has in
life.”
Brett is a
bit of a fitness and health nut. Although it's been a struggle to
find time to keep up lately, he tries to get to the gym every day and
eat healthy.
Brett
loves photography and videography. He even went out and bought camera
gear to shoot cover videos for YouTube, which has allowed him to
explore new art formats.
Brett is a
huge family guy, and being so far away from his family is hard. He
says he calls home daily, sometimes multiple times, but unfortunately
only makes it home about once per year for Christmas.
Check
out Brett Westgrove live this week during CMA Fest at The Commodore
Grille on June 10th at 6PM! Also, be sure to follow Brett
on social media at the links below, and watch for the release of his
debut music video coming out the first part of July!
Written 06/04/2017 by Tiffany Miller for Live Laugh Love Nashville's Music Monday Feature
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