As I get older and pick up more responsibility, I find myself working harder to secure a good life. This involves hours of implementing and employing new marketing strategies to make money as an independent musician.
One of the new ideas I have turned into reality has been organizing my own concert and drumming up [...]
There are 7 factors that I require when writing a good song and they are:
1) Emotions: The best place to find these are through a woman or a bottle of whiskey (note* whiskey was created after emotions were lost on a woman)
2) Catchy melody: Usually my songs start with some sort of chord progression on [...]
Woooo Hoooo!
I just wanted to share the news that I’ve been inducted into the Numata Music Hall of Fame!
The category is for best white foreign musician!
For those of you who don’t know about it let me explain:
Numata is a city in Japan of about 50,000 people.
There are approximately 10 white foreigners here.
There are two musicians.
I [...]
There are many musicians that I worship and have incredible respect for. The beatles are just one for example. However, recently being an indie artists has turned being a singer/songwriter/performer into a BUSINESS man too. Let´s face it, we are all now running a business. It´s been a really great experience learning all the facets [...]
Record the next top ten hit with the help of your PC
By Fiona Wagner
Over his 20-year career, Kelly Pettit went from recording his first song at age 17 in a studio, to recording his fourth and latest CD, Fuel, “all over the place.”
Drums and bass were recorded in a Vancouver studio, vocals were recorded [...]
The trip back to the west coast (home).
Well, after flying back to Canada for 4 weeks to tour the west coast and visit family, I found that trying to kill two birds with one stone isn’t as easy as it seems. Thanks to UBL and all my fans to help me win the Ultimate Band [...]
It’s been years since I started this journey of life as a musician (Over 20 to be honest).
Most musicians will agree that it’s not an easy road taken and if I had done this for the money then I’d have been a fool a thousand times over. However, I don’t think I have worked [...]
Holding duel citizenship in Canada and Australia, currently residing in Japan, and having spent significant amounts of time in several other countries around the world, pop / singer songwriter Kelly Pettit surely has a lot to write about. His song catalog most likely illustrates the richness of the cultural experiences he has been exposed to [...]
My song “She’s Just Like Summer” has won track of the month on an amazing radio show called Fame Games (meermusic.com).
Fame Games now belongs to abc radio ( ABC Radio Networks has 4,400 affiliate radio stations reaching more than 105 million listeners in the 12+ demographic each week… )
I couldn’t be happier!
The other songs [...]
Interview
Kelly Pettit
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:36:01
The winner of UBL’s Ultimate Band Contest walks us through his musical journey
Canadian native Kelly Pettit knew from a young age that music was his passion. After playing in numerous bands and releasing CDs independently, his journey in pursuit of his dream eventually took him clear across the globe to [...]
