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* Album Update (2/6/10) * My full-length debut album is now out.
Download the full-color album art in this free 17-page digital booklet.
"Guitars jangle and chime (and occasionally shred), the piano hops like a New Orleans beer hall... will stir the soul of any radio listener from the late ’80s, gay or straight... Had States been around back when this kind of music was popular… Strange Town would easily have saved the lives of a couple thousand boys coming to terms with their feelings." [David Medsker, Bullz-Eye]
"...earnest piano, jazzy guitar and insightful lyrics... States’ clarion voice that evokes Julian Lennon more than Ben Folds... a throwback to good ol’ fashioned 80s easy listening... an album that is as rich and honest as the train tracks States has traveled." [Jack Winn, Racket Magazine]
"States' best talents seem to come through his fingers, as he wails in a riff on "In The Game" or the poetic piano on "I Will Find My Way." [Sonic Dissonance]
"Not the happiest album you'll ever come across, but all the better for it." [Steven Reid, Sea of Tranquility]
PRODUCER / SONGWRITER
KEYBOARDS / ELECTRIC BASS
PROGRAMMING / REMIXING
My name is Ryan States and I am an ‘out’ singer/songwriter. I record piano and guitar-based Pop/Rock. I’ve been compared to The Fray, Queen, Michael W. Smith and Elton John. I want to share my joy and pain to inspire and comfort -- to use music for escapism.
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