Chad Lawson is a fantastic pianist and a creative composer/arranger. Pair that with a mind for marketing and it’s no wonder this Steinway artist is at the forefront of independent classical music.
His recent album The Chopin Variations, which has been called “the classical CD for people that hate classical music,” went to #1 on both the Billboard Classical and Billboard Crossover Classical charts (and on Amazon and iTunes’ Classical charts too).
In this video profile, Chad details his own musical independence, how DIY artists are now the most relevant segment of the music industry, and all the ways CD Baby’s global distribution and licensing services help him make money while he sleeps. Check it out!
Chris Robley is an acclaimed singer-songwriter and award-winning poet from Maine.
His Beatlesque indie-pop and milltown Americana songs have been praised by The Associated Press, No Depression, KCRW, The LA Times, Boston Globe, NPR, American Songwriter, and others.
His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, The Poetry Review, and more.
Robley has received a Maine Literary Award in Poetry, Boulevard’s Emerging Writers Prize for Poetry, and in 2016 was selected by former US-poet laureate Robert Pinsky as a finalist for the Dorset Prize.