Dan Bruder
Dan Bruder | |||||||||||||||
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| Birth name | Daniel Bruder | ||||||||||||||
| Born | April 3, 1956 Newark, New Jersey, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Origin | New Jersey | ||||||||||||||
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| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, musician | ||||||||||||||
| Years active | 1980–present | ||||||||||||||
| Associated acts | Dan Bruder Band | ||||||||||||||
| Website | danbruderband | ||||||||||||||
Dan Bruder (born 1956) is a singer-songwriter and musician from Newark, NJ.
Early Life
Dan was raised as an only child by his parents Melvin and Ruth Bruder in Maplewood, NJ. Melvin was an optometrist and Ruth was the owner of a women’s clothing boutique. Dan attended Columbia High School in South Orange/Maplewood and graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts. Early on he was encouraged by his parents to pursue music. He started out playing drums and by the time he was in high school, he was in his first local bands playing guitar. He started writing music in high school and was heavily influenced by the politics and social issues surrounding him. He wrote about living near the Newark riots in 1967 and the militant radical left-wing Weatherman recruiting from his high school in his memoirs "Glimpses from the Edge",[1] which was published in 2002.
Music Career
Dan formed the first iteration of the Dan Bruder Band after college in 1979 and had been heavily influenced by his guitar teacher, Sam Andrew of Big Brother and the Holding Company. During those years, he worked in various jobs to pay the bills including selling insurance, wood burning stoves, funeral home lighting and frozen meat before being offered a job editing depositions on the Agent Orange litigation, which proved to be a transformational moment in his life. After reading and coding hundreds of eye-witness accounts of Vietnam veterans he decided to incorporate some of their experiences into his music.
“This was the first time that I felt an obligation to get the story right in my lyrics. Many of those who served were screwed by their government and big corporations and if I could be a small part of relaying the truth, I had to do so.”
Throughout the rest of the 1980’s, he was a regular face in Greenwich Village and on the Jersey scene at clubs like Kenny’s Castaways, The Bitter End, Folk City, The Village Gate, The Stone Pony, Club Bene, and Showplace. Dan also routinely performed at college campuses throughout the Northeast. He has performed with, collaborated or opened on stage for a variety of artists including Bruce Springsteen, Nils Lofgren, Clarence Clemmons, The Smithereens, Mick Ronson, Edgar Winter, Leon Russell, Robert Gordon, and Blackfoot.
By the end of the 1980’s he disappeared from the music scene except for an occasional studio project and devoted his energies to raising a family. During this period, Dan started what would be a 25-year career in talent acquisition specializing in the energy efficiency and renewable energy business sector.
Web Series
In 2008, he began collaborating with Bob Kanner[2], an Emmy-Award winning television editor and began developing a variety of programming for web-based television. The next year, at the urging of friends and colleagues who essentially described much of his life as a comedy, he decided to put pen to paper and begin writing “Who the Hell is Dan Bruder”[3]
It is a fictional rock-comedy web-series about a middle-aged wannabe rocker who can’t let go of the dream of success. It was a satirical, self-deprecating version of Dan’s life story and turned out to be the story of millions of other dads, uncles, neighbors, co-workers and the women in their lives.
In 2010, he assembled a cast of talented actors and musicians including Liberty Devitto (Billy Joel), John Ginty (Dixie Chicks, Robert Randolph), Devon Allman (Royal Southern Brotherhood), Muddy Shews (Southside Johnny) and Lorenza Ponce (Bon Jovi) to act in the show.
Dan opted to keep the first release of episodes online with Relix.com[4] and shortly thereafter on jambands.com [5] eventually realized that keeping the show as a web-series was the best direction for the project. This allowed the episodes to be viewed by their audience of 14 million a month. Out of that success came sponsorships from Gibson Guitar [6] and Guitar Center that helped fuel the project to the next level.
As of March 2018[update], Dan is currently working on his new album "Evolution" which is being produced by John Ginty and scheduled to be released in late 2018.
Peace Corps
After completion of "Who the Hell is Dan Bruder", Dan was appointed by the Federal Government as the Director of Recruitment for the United States Peace Corps and sworn in on March 9, 2014. He successfully implemented changes into the Federal agency that resulted in new recruitment records that had been held for 40 years[7].
References
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- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Glimpses-Edge-Chronicling-Indiscretions-Impressions/dp/1403360782?tag=everybodywikien-20
- ↑ "Bob Kanner - GorinMedia". Retrieved 15 March 2018.
- ↑ "Dan Bruder Band - Web Series". danbruderband.com. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
- ↑ "The Continuing Saga: Who The Hell Is Dan Bruder?". Retrieved 15 March 2018.
- ↑ "Just "Who the Hell is Dan Bruder?"". www.jambands.com. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
- ↑ "Who the Hell is Dan Bruder & the Gibson Guitar Giveaway Contest (Guitarsite)". www.guitarsite.com. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
- ↑ Shapiro, T. Rees (14 October 2015). "U.S. Peace Corps sees 40-year high in applications for overseas program". The Washington Post. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
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