Life After Idol: Dwight d'Eon (Pt. 2)

I mentioned earlier this week that Dwight's band The Nation is playing in Digby tomorrow. NovaNewsNow.com sat down with their hometown boy to get the scoop on his post-Idol career.

An short excerpt:

Now the 29-year-old is shopping around for a record label and trying to find, in his words, “real muscle, representation and management” to take his music nationally.
“I can’t drive around from here to Vancouver in my car, selling CDs from my trunk,” he says. “So I’m only going to release it when everything is in place and I can do it properly.”

It’s like his approach to songwriting. He’s spent the last eight months writing and recording songs and sees himself as a better songwriter than he was before.

“I studied the writing a lot more, trying to get better at my lyrics. Every song you write is hopefully better than the last one, you kind of learn as you go,” he says. “I think finally my song writing has matured enough where I feel that it’s worthy of some national attention.”

He's not a solo act; he's fronting his new band The Nation. And while he's still a rocker, he's beyond the angst.

“Some of the music on the CD, there’s some of the lighter stuff, there’s still some rock,” he says about the new album. “We’re moderate rock but there is a lot of singer-songwriter stuff, and some of it is kind of down east sounding, there’s elements of that.”
And while d’Eon says he’s been working his butt off this past year, he has taken the time to do some things away from the studio. Over the past year he teamed up with the Western Counties Regional Library to help promote literacy among elementary-aged students in the Yarmouth area and he’s been a spokesperson for Democracy 250, an initiative aimed at helping Canadian youth understand the important of voting, a cause he strongly believes in. His band will be participating in a Democracy 250 concert series in September.

Read the entire article here.

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