Bryan Stave grew up in Greenfield, Wisconsin (just outside of Milwaukee) in a home filled with sports. Playing football and basketball from an early age, athletics were Bryan’s first love and after his playing days ended, he spent three years coaching high school basketball and working different universities’ camps throughout the summer of 2012 and 2013. It was those summers on the road that helped Bryan discover his true passion for music, often spending hours playing his guitar and singing in his assigned dorm room between camp sessions. Building up his cover base to over 175 songs from memory, he developed a knack for identifying catchy melodies and rhyme schemes which led to him begin writing songs and performing around his college town of Madison, Wisconsin.
Upon graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bryan went to work for Epic Systems (a large healthcare software vendor) and began working on his first EP which was completed in the summer of 2015. After departing Epic in August of 2016, Bryan again spent several months on the road staying with friends across the country and living out of his car while he figured out where he wanted to settle next. After more than 10,000 miles, hundreds of hours of busking, and many nights of either sleeping in a hammock or cramming his 6’4” frame into the back of a Toyota Camry, Bryan settled on Nashville, Tennessee as his new home, and shortly thereafter, connected with producer Christian Davis of Sony Records. Throughout the early part of 2017, the two worked on producing completed tracks for three of Bryan’s songs…”Monday Song”, “Chasing Platinum”, and “Shiny Toys” and Bryan set out promoting his new material and raising funds to complete his album.
From the artist : “Shiny Toys is a song about priorities and valuing people more highly than material possessions. We see so many stories of folks that seemingly have everything but lead unhappy lives because they don’t have a sense of inner peace and contentment. That’s not to say working hard or having nice things is a negative, but if it comes at the expense of certain relationships, it’s time to re-examine priorities and determine what’s really important in life.”
