Everything about my life has always been constantly changing. From where I live to the people around me, nothing ever seems to stay the same for long. One of the few things that have really been consistent in my life is my music. It's ingrained in my soul. Denying my music would be denying who I am. It's actually a passion, not just something I really love to do. If you don't have a passion in life then you really can't understand how it is. It's something that has been in you for your whole life. Some people are born a certain way with certain abilities that narrow their path in life and if they take any other path they can never be happy because they are denying who they are and denying the abilities that they were born with which is such a waste. 

I can remember playing the coca cola song on a little toy xylophone in music class in grade two and the teacher asking me who had taught me to play it. I remember my mom trying to teach me grade one piano and me not being interested but then going back to the piano and figuring out how to play the theme from jurrasic park because I thought it sounded cool. Music is such a huge part of my life that I could never give it up for anything without being misrable. When people ask me why I put the name Windborn to my music I tell them that I read backwards in the dictionary until I found something that I liked. That's actually true but at the same time it stuck out to me because it seemed to describe my life in a word. I end up going wherever the wind takes me and on the most part I don't even feel like I've got a choice. It just happens and If I try to fight it I'm never happy. My music is inspired by everything that I've been through. Everything that I've learned. Experiences that I've had. People that I have met. So Windborn seemed fitting. 

 The first time I played music on stage was for my brother's high school band Scribe. I was 14. The band needed a drummer and I wanted to play drums so after some very basic instruction I became their very basic drummer. Concerts didn't happen very often and after a few I was replaced by a way better drummer. Around that same time I started to mess around on the guitar. I was living in Central Alberta at the time. When I was 17 I started jamming with my friend Dave on bass. I wrote and recorded a few simple EP's. After going through a few different drummers I met Tim Toews, currently of the band Seven Second Thunderstorm which is based out of Sylvan Lake, Alberta. The three of us formed a 3 peice hard rock band called Agent-O. We played all over Alberta for about 3 years. We had a few radio plays and were featured on a compilation album from Music Center Canada in Calgary where we ended up recording a 6 song EP. Regretfully we didn't ever release the EP mainly because I had spent all of my money having it recorded.  By the time the EP was recorded we decided that we would only play big shows with big sound so that we could really blow people away at concerts. Those types of shows only came around every once in a while though so eventually we just stopped playing altogether. In hindsight we should have just kept playing at every dive venue that we could and kept up the momentum that we had started to build. Regardless of terrible sound systems. 

After Agent-O ended I bought my very first guitar. An acoustic that I still use. The guitar I had been using for Agent-O was my brother's grad present actually and I'm forever grateful to him for letting me abuse that thing for so many years. So I picked up an acoustic guitar and decided to start writing new songs that I could play solo anywhere. When I was 23 I moved from Alberta to the Okanagan valley in BC to be in a scene that is more appreciative of original music and to be in a more central area to tour western Canada. I started a carpentry company so that I would be free to take time off whenever I needed for my music and hopefully to be able to afford to tour a few times a year. Unfortunately the recession happened and I had to work constantly just to afford to live which left me hardly any time for my music. I was able to play a lot locally and take mini tours around western Canada but the dream of my music finally taking over my work always seemed to be far off. So as of now I'm in the process of making the major changes necessary to start making my music full time. I'm working at getting my cost of living to the point that I can just make my music. If that means living in a van. So be it. In my opinion, going to whatever extent you have to go to to do what you love is completely worth it. 

In 2010 I released an EP online called Radiate and in 2011 I released a full length album called Spitting Bullets online and in hard copy. I've had radio play on independent stations across canada and the US, podcasts and radio features on itunes stations and have been featured on emerging artist albums. I've opened concerts for some pretty big touring acts and have played at a lot of venues and festivals all over BC and Alberta. I will always be recording and performing my music. That will never end until I'm dead. Which hopefully doesn't happen soon because eventually I want people who first hear of my music to discover that there are 50 Windborn albums available. I better get to work. 

Peace
-Jeff
Windborn