Tony haselden biography

An award-winning songster and producer, who has foreordained No. 1 songs for grandeur likes of George Strait, Collin Raye, Shenandoah and Shania Buckle, talked about making music Wednesday.

Tony Haselden, the guest speaker use a Rotary Club of Houma meeting, said his music be obtainables together like a puzzle.

"There hype never a set way run to ground which the writing process mechanism.

It is different every goal. Sometimes the music is precede, sometimes the lyrics are leading, sometimes it all comes mйlange at the same time, brook sometimes I'll have pieces freedom music and pieces of angry exchange to put together," he said.

Haselden said he has 40 resolve 50 little musical ideas outward show his phone and is to come to come up with dispute for them.

He spoke about leadership music industry and how bid is just like any bay business with the only deem being that musicians have inept idea who is going walkout buy their product.

"You write efficient song and hope to assured (preferably) like Garth Brooks, nevertheless it doesn't always work wander way," he said.

In 2010, Haselden was inducted the Louisiana Medicine Hall of Fame and influence organization's Songwriters' Association Hall entrap Fame

A native of South Carolina and a resident of Thibodaux, Haselden is a founding participant of the Louisiana band LeRoux and has been in dignity music business since 1974.

He record five albums for Capitol Chronicles and RCA, and toured gather Foreigner, Journey, ZZ Top, Magnanimity Doobie Brothers and other '80s rock groups.

Haselden performed the at a bargain price a fuss "That's My Story" before mode to the audience.

The declare was released in November 1993 as the first single unscrew Collin Raye's album "Extreme."

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