Brandon Caulfield

Brandon Caulfield (born February 12th, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter/guitarist from Seattle, Washington. Raised in Seattle to parents with French and Irish heritage his music is influenced by many including, Noir Desir, The Replacements, The Doors, Serge Gainsbourgh, The Beatles and Tom Petty.
He began his music career at the age of 16 after leaving school often busking on the streets of Seattle before finally getting his break in 2010 signing to J R Rhythm's record label.
Set to release his debut album in 2011.
==Biography==
==1987-2003: Early Years==
Brandon Caulfield was born in Seattle, Washington on February 12th 1987. Caulfield is the only son of Renée and Robert Caulfield. He has lived in Seattle all of his life and is of Irish and French descent. His great grandfather moved his family from Dublin to Seattle in the early 40’s and his mothers family moved from Calais, France to New York in 1962.
Caulfield was brought up around music from an early age and his first memory’s of music was his mother playing Brigitte Bardot records but it was after hearing a collaboration between Brigitte Bardot & Serge Gainsbourg when he started to become obsessed with music.
His father was a more conventional rock fan and this affected Brandon’s music education, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Eagles, Tom Petty, Van Morrison and Eric Clapton are all heavily embedded into Brandon’s memories of his childhood and have now became big influences on his own style.
He was always an outsider at school from a very early age and quickly came to resent the people around him, often isolating him in his bedroom for hours, his parents often tried to get him into therapy to figure out why he was so content on being isolated from the real world.
And when he became a teenager, the pressure’s to fit in at school and be popular continued to fuel his resentment for his fellow teenagers, he continued to isolate himself and has stated that he only ever had one close friend called Isabel. 
He would spend almost all of his free time in his room reading and scribbling down things on paper and writing down almost everything that popped into his head, it was during this period when he started to learn his craft as a songwriter and soon decided to take up guitar, his parents chose not to buy him a guitar, stating that school was more important than trying to be John Lennon. He therefore decided to take matters into his own hands and stole an acoustic guitar from a record store during a trip to Los Angeles, claiming he found it on the street whenever asked by his parents about it.
==2004-2009: Music Struggle==
He dropped out of school at 16 with no grades and he took a job as a cleaner at a local shopping mall, he recalls that he’d often see former school students and says that the look that they gave him while cleaning the floors is the fuel he uses to become “a better person than they’ll ever be.”
He held down this job for 3 years and at the age of 19 he decided to attempt to make it in music, playing various small clubs in the local area, often playing to maximum crowds of 15 people. He stated that although it was tough financially, the freedom of it was the thing he had been searching for all his life.
He would spend the majority of his time busking in subways and on busy streets in Seattle and often had to sleep in run down warehouses and old stores, he recalls having to sleep on a park bench for 3 days, "It was the worst experience ever, I'm not a bad person I never deserved to be that cold and uncomfortable, people would look at me as if I was something they had trodden in. It was a frustrating time."
==2010-present: Breakthrough==
In late 2010 his break came after he decided to self release and E.P and he managed to persuade various café and bar owners to let him perform in those venue's free of charge and was gaining small interest from some well known names in music including, Glamazon and JR Rhythm, his E.P didn't sell particularly well doubled by the fact that he could only afford to make 150 copies of it but JR Rhythm so something that reminded him of his younger self in Brandon, and intensity and vulnerability that was endeering to him and over the christmas period Brandon had signed a record deal with a newly formed record label created and run by JR Rhythm and it was confirmed that Brandon would head into a record studio in 2011 to record his debut album. He also gained some much needed confidence which he attributes to a fellow musician called Hannah Beth, "She's made me feel like I can achieve anything. I've never felt so capable before and it's tough to explain but her friendship has helped me grow in confidence and I thank her immensely for her kindness and the love she has shown to me."
His first major live performance came at the New Years @ The Pavillion concert on 1st January 2011 which was a televised event.
==Personal Life==
He is a very shy individual who is very rarely spotted by media, he generally keeps himself to himself. He has recently became friends with fellow musician Hannah Beth and has had support from both Glamazon and JR Rhythm. He claims that he's not massively close to his family and has stated that he is planning on leaving Seattle, Washington as soon as he can afford to.
==Discography==
===Studio Albums===
*Into The Wild (2011)
===E.P's===
*Floored & Beaten E.P (2010)
===Singles===
*Silent Night (2010)