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Daniel Victor (born September 20, 1979) is a Canadian recording artist and producer who is most famous for his work in the collaboration of Neverending White Lights. ==Early life== Victor was born a Canadian of landed immigrants, his father born in Italy, and his mother in Argentina, who married and raised a family in southern Ontario. Victor's involvement with music began at a very early age. His father, a musician and performer himself, exposed him to hundreds of record albums and helped shaped his early love of song. He spent the majority of his childhood listening to these albums over and over and found a very strong connection to the emotive qualities of music from his very first experience with it. At the age of six, he studied the piano under the direction of nuns at a local conservatory. After a five-year period there, he quit to pursue his abilities to "play by ear" and compose freely. He taught himself a range of instruments and began developing his vocal abilities. During his adolescence he performed on stage often in various local orchestras and jazz groups as a percussionist. He formed several original 'alternative' bands in which he played different roles, always acting as the producer/engineer in their home studio environment; a collection of gear his father had built in their basement with pipe dreams of eventually starting a record company. Victor worked part-time in this home-studio producing local bands from the Windsor-Detroit area, developing skills and experimentation that would later serve as the background for his upcoming releases. At the age of nineteen, Victor enrolled at the University of Windsor for his Bachelor of Arts. It was during these years that he began to drift apart from working in 'band-like' environments and experiment with multi-tracking himself in the studio. These early recordings eventually went on to become the first batch of songs from his debut release, "Act 1: Goodbye Friends Of The Heavenly Bodies". Though proficient on most instruments, Victor felt that utilizing the same singer on every song could grow tired, and was all too common. The idea of movie soundtracks, compilations, and frequent collaborations on Hip-Hop records intrigued him, and he wanted to bring these ideas over to the indie-alt music world and create an entirely different concept. Something he didn't own in his collection, but wanted to. After making notes of all his favourite singers, he began sending out compositions to the various vocalists he felt would be a good fit for the songs. His idea was to create something more interesting than just another album by another band; something that offered a bigger experience for the listener. After Victor finished school, he spent all his time devoted to making the record he envisioned. The name "Neverending White Lights" came to him one night after flipping through his old notebooks in search of key words. The lyric stood out to him and gave him the sense of infinity and foreverness he was trying to create with the project. It was also a metaphor for humans; he explains: "There is an energy in people that doesn't go away when they die. While the physical body stays on earth, the light escapes. That is what we're made of, that never-ending light". With the premiss of the album's content starting to unfold, Victor deemed it important to make the album a concept record; an entire collection of sixteen songs all telling one story, in different ways. This would be an ongoing story, from album to album, each with a different conceptual basis for the lyrics. The albums would be the "Acts", and the songs would be the "Scenes", and of course, the various singers would become the "Actors" - much like a movie or stage play. It was an ambitious undertaking for one person to put together with no help in the industry and no band to bounce ideas off of, and this difficulty led him into some troubled territories. After a very trying experience realizing this overly ambitious debut, Victor surfaced with the finished album in September 2005. It featured over a dozen guest vocalists, many of which were Victor's favourite. He states: "It means more to me to hold a burned copy of this finished concept in my hands after seeing it in my head for so long, than it does to actually release it to the world. I'd rather just put it on my shelf to listen to now and then and reflect on what it means to have completed this personal musical ambition." Victor has recently become a spokesperson for mental illness after revealing in a 2013 interview with the online magazine ''Mind Your Mind'' that he has suffered from severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Depression, and Anxiety during the course of his career. He is an advocate of non-medinical/alternative treatments and positive focus on maintaining a healthy lifestyle while battling these illnesses. He stated in 2012 that much of his OCD not only controlled his everyday life, but seeped into his music methodology as well. While currently still working on the Neverending White Lights projects, Victor has also ventured off into forming an independent record label of his own, which has already led to the signing of the Vancouver-based act ''Bed Of Stars'', which will see a debut release in 2013. In the fall of 2013, Victor launched an Internet radio station called Loveless Radio. It's 24-hour streaming includes an ongoing playlist of handpicked favourite songs from Victor's favourite bands and notable influences. The website also features a live chat and a collection of the Best Tracks of the year. Loveless Radio boasts a staff of 6 DJ's, including DJ Jon Jon, DJ Pete Truppe, DJ Pz0, Kid C, DJ Zio, and G William Rex. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daniel Victor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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