![]() Over 25 years later, Doug returned to music and began recording instrumental compositions at home. With all of his job’s day-to-day responsibilities and bills to be paid, life moved on. Doug, a recent UBC graduate, followed a career path in pharmaceutical and medical supplies instead. With patient dedication and vision, he self-financed and independently produced a series of vinyl records released between 19, that despite grassroots promotional efforts, never found their intended audience. ![]() ![]() As one listens to more and more music with either age or experience, you begin to realize that talent does not necessarily equate to album sales or chart positions, or even by today’s mainstream measure of success, social media data.ĭoug Cho started writing, recording, and performing songs in the pre-Internet/post-hippie coffee house scene of Vancouver, BC, during the mid-1970s. While certain players seek their fame and glory in music business hubs like London, New York, and Los Angeles, for others the creation of music is a more personal communion with the musical stream, a gift and release, never to be overtly commercialized. For a glimpse, Voluntary In Nature was there. Searching for Sugar Man? Well, some are simply more fantastical than others. For every James Taylor, or even a Sixto Rodriguez, who for a time, fell through the cracks of greater cultural awareness, there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of songwriters around the world who continue to connect to their craft, regardless of the size of their audience, but as we know, every musician, every person for that matter, has an important story. ![]()
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