Ryan Farish
Grammy nominated, 2008 GMA Dove Award Winning songwriter/producer/composer Ryan Farish, first launched his music career on the first generation mp3.com, where his music quickly took to the masses obtaining a whopping 1,800,000+ downloads of his trademark, electronic-jazz-world music.
Los Angeles music Industry magazine, “Music Connection” refers to Ryan Farish as a “Download King”.
Ryan’s national debut album, Beautiful (Dist by Capitol/EMI), quickly climbed to 10 on the Billboard Top New Age chart, and also ranked 1 on Music Choice’s Soundscapes Digital Music channel. Ryan’s sophomore record, From the Sky, smashed the New Age charts again, hitting 3 on the Billboard chart only five weeks after its release, and was the second most downloaded Jazz album on iTunes for two consecutive weeks! Ryan’s song from that album, “Living Water” was even featured by iTunes, as the “Discovery Download of the Week”.
Ryan’s music has been featured on The Weather Channel’s Local on the 8’s; he also composed the theme music for their prime time TV show, Storm Stories; and most recently was featured along with Jazz Superstars Chick Corea, Dav Koz, Najee, and Jeff Lorber, to name a few on the 1 Top Billboard Chartting Jazz compliation, “The Weather Channel Presents:Smooth Jazz” (Midas/EMI). Other honorable mentions to Ryan’s music credit, have been having his music used as part of the Freedom Towers documentary in NYC, Access Hollywood, Universal Music Publishing, Red Cross, Lifetime Network, Sony, Columbia Tri Star Pictures, just to name a few.
Ryan’s unique sound, and inherent ability to communicate through music, has touched thousands of lives, and entered the homes of millions across the world.
Christianity Today.com says: “Ryan Farish is something of an instrumental music superstar.”
Ryan’s latest release, “Spirit- A Ryan Farish Christmas” is available through iTunes and Amazon.com. It reached Amazon’s top 100 album list within the first week! Read the official Press Release.
For Immediate Release, Dec 9, 2009. Los Angeles, CA.
Ryan Farish, releases his first ever Holiday/Christmas album, “Spirit – A Ryan Farish Christmas”.
Farish, who is both recognized around the world for his signature voice on the piano as a recording artist, and for his unique touch to music production, has finally reached out with his first Christmas offering, “Spirit – A Ryan Farish Christmas”.
Ryan’s music has touched the lives of hundreds of thousands, and entered the homes of millions via his extensive work as a composer. Many learned of Ryan Farish’s music via the Youtube video “Remember Me”, which ranks as one of the most viewed videos of all time, at 28,000,000 plus. Additionally, Farish’s music is heard daily on hit shows like 20/20, “What Not to Wear”, the Sopranos, The Weather Channel, Speed Channel, Discovery Channel, MTV and VH1, just to name a few.
The Weather Channel recently credited Ryan Farish on their new music website, saying “Ryan Farish has been a Weather Channel music staple for over a decade. His music has been an integral part in giving The Weather Channel a musical identity. This artist can’t be roped into any one genre unless you just create a genre called “Great Music” and in that genre he is one of the best.”
Ryan’s music has been selected as “Discovery Download” of the week by Apple’s iTunes, and has been downloaded millions of times via multiple sites like mp3.com, iTunes, Amazon.com, Rhapsody, and ryanfarish.com. With all of Ryan Farish’s music reaching the masses, Farish just signed a deal to have his signature sound piped into the air, literally… putting his music into the on air flight entertainment systems to all the worlds major airlines, like Delta, Virgin, American, etc. 30 in total.
“Spirit – A Ryan Farish Christmas” now enters Farish’s discography, and Farish along with his label RYTONE Entertainment invite you to enjoy the sounds of the season, in a new and refreshing way, with “Spirit – A Ryan Farish Christmas”.
We caught up with Ryan for a quick interview
What avenues of the music industry are you involved in, besides your mainstream albums?
I am also involved as a composer, producer, and publisher.
How did you get involved in composing work? Did companies find you or did you reach out to them? And how does your composing differ from the music you make personally?
My composing originally was just my Artist Albums, the exposure I recieved on the first gen mp3.com led to companies all around the world contacting us to license my songs. This then, eventually led to me getting contracts to compose custom music, in various genres from Theme songs to hit TV shows like “Storm Stories”, to Major motion Pictures for Companies like SONY, Columbia Tri Star, Universal, Capitol/EMI. etc.
What’s your favorite part of producing music? What gets you into the new piece of work as you make it?
My favorite part, is when I start to feel that the idea is developing into something that in a way is its own thing… its all about communication to me, and serving the listener… anything that I create that has those qualities, becomes a song, and once I feel a song is coming through, I can hardly keep up with recording the notes, as they come.
What is your favorite digital download store to sell your music on and why?
iTunes. They have a very simple, clean interface which is great for suggesting new music (Genius). They are the largest music retailer now, and so exposure on iTunes today, is like being on a wall display in Best Buy from years past. Truly, we are living in exciting times to be artists.
What are your career or music goals for 2010?
Tour, tour, tour!
Do you have a favorite piece of equipment that you use to make your music, such as a keyboard, program or outboard gear?
Yes. My Mac. After that, I love working with Apple Logic 9. Its an incredible program, that inspires songs and creativity.
Are you actively marketing yourself to increase your fan base? If so, what are the tools you use to do so? (social networking, advertising, website)
No, actually, and we probably should look into that 
.We are not involved in any marketing campaings, never have actually, although I do take time to maintain myspace and facebook pages, a little tweet here and there too.
What does your album Spirit mean to you?
Its very special to me, I had wanted to do a Christmas album, for many years, but I didn’t want to do it until I knew that I had something to bring, to these timeless classic songs, which mean so much to many of us. I wanted to wait until I completely had defined the “RF” sound, and could then offer that, to these classic songs which mean so much to many of us.
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