Joshua Kadison

Joshua Kadison began playing piano and writing songs when he was 12. Influences on his emotionally romantic style of music include Cole Porter and the songwriting teams of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, and George Gershwin and his brother Ira Gershwin. Kadison left his Hollywood Hills home after the early death in 1978 of his mother, actress Gloria Castillo, eventually ending up in Nashville. After being signed by SBK, he released Painted Desert Serenade in 1993 & followed by Delilah Blue in 1995. He moved labels to EMI Germany and 'Vanishing America' was released in 2001.