{"id":21111,"date":"2015-08-06T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T18:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=21111"},"modified":"2017-08-14T10:49:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:49:41","slug":"tmn-new-artist-greg-holden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=21111","title":{"rendered":"TMN New Artist:  Greg Holden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rootDiv\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?attachment_id=21114\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21114\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21114\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Chasing-The-Sun-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"Chasing The Sun\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Singer and songwriter Greg Holden has earned recognition as an independent artist for the past several years, though he is perhaps best known for writing the massive hit \u201cHome\u201d \u2014 the debut single for American Idol winner Phillip Phillips that sold five million tracks in the U.S. and earned Holden an ASCAP Pop Award. He\u2019s also found success with \u201cThe Lost Boy\u201d \u2014 a poetic rumination inspired by a Dave Eggers\u2019 novel about a Sudanese refugee that hit No. 1 on iTunes in Holland and raised over $50,000 for the Red Cross. Within two weeks of being featured on FX&#8217;s <em>Sons of Anarchy<\/em>, \u201cThe Lost Boy\u201d sold 30,000 downloads in the U.S. and debuted at No. 36 on Billboard\u2019s Rock chart. Soon Holden will also be known for the passionate, purpose-driven rock songs on his major-label debut album, like the anthemic \u201cHold On Tight\u201d and \u201cSave Yourself.\u201d Those songs, plus Holden\u2019s powerful voice led Warner Bros. Records to sign the Scottish-born, England-bred, New York-based artist earlier this year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But Holden\u2019s career almost didn\u2019t happen. He nearly gave up on the music business altogether a few times over the course of the past few years. The first was after he spent a significant amount of his own money (in addition to $30,000 crowd-funded through Kickstarter) to make his Tony Berg-produced 2011 album <em>I Don\u2019t Believe You<\/em>, watched his label go bust, and was left unable to promote it. The second was when he went into debt after \u201cThe Lost Boy\u201d charted overseas and he set out on a sold-out tour of Holland. \u201cI borrowed petrol money from my drummer so we could drive around Europe in his car,\u201d Holden recalls. \u201cThat&#8217;s how bad it was. I was driving to my sold-out shows thinking, \u2018I&#8217;m coming off this tour and I&#8217;m giving this up. How can I afford to keep doing it?\u2019 I was ready to call it a day.\u2019\u201dFortunately, \u201cHome\u201d became a success and Holden embarked on a life-changing, seven-week trip to India and Nepal in February 2013 that renewed his drive to be an artist. \u201cThe trip gave me a new perspective on how lucky I was, and the fact that I can make music for a living is a miracle,\u201d Holden says. \u201cI came home from India and wrote most of my new album almost immediately.\u201d The chorus of the album\u2019s first single \u201cHold On Tight\u201d is as such: \u201cI don&#8217;t take my life for granted \/I&#8217;m gonna hold on tight to what I&#8217;ve been handed.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\u201cMy last album was brutally honest, but I was very much pointing the finger in the wrong direction,\u201d Holden says. \u201cI was projecting my problems onto everybody else. I guess I just realized that was not a good way to be&#8230;\u2018I&#8217;m lucky. We&#8217;re all lucky and we don\u2019t know it and we should.\u2019 I really want to make people think with my songs. I\u2019d love for people to take on a more compassionate way of thinking and start considering others besides themselves, myself included.\u201d\u201cI want people to listen to this album and think, \u2018Where the hell did this come from?\u2019&#8221; Holden says. \u201cI would love them to really pay attention to the words in these songs. I\u2019m hoping that if they do, they will have some kind of meaningful reaction. That&#8217;s what I would love.\u201dGreg Holden is now playing on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?page_id=8999\">TMN Radio<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer and songwriter Greg Holden has earned recognition as an independent artist for the past several years, though he is perhaps best known for writing&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,1832,3402],"tags":[7026,7024,7027,7025,106,7023,3649],"class_list":["post-21111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-kfhs-radio","category-area-music","tag-hold-on-tight","tag-home","tag-save-yourself","tag-the-lost-boy","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-greg-holden","tag-tmn-radio","post_format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21111"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21121,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21111\/revisions\/21121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}