Adam Cayman (Folk Rock Singer)

Adam Carl Cayman (17th November 1947 - 11th September 2001) known professionally as Adam Cayman, was a Neutralstonese singer and songwriter. He was one of the most popular folk and acoustic and the 7th best selling Neutralstonese artist of all time. The Chairman's Gramophone's enthusiast magazine called Adam Cayman the most inspirational musical artist from the island.

   Cayman produced and recorded almost 250 songs, about 210 which he wrote himself. He released 23 albums in his musical career which went on the Neutralston Hot 20 the week they released. He recorded in an acoustic guitar in the middle of the woods, and later on his career on a 1967 Fender™ Telecaster in his Foundaria Reserve house backyard. He earned 10 golds and platinum's with his iconic songs such as: Bullet Run, A Flower in the City, Wooden Reality, Insane falsification, bookmark, oil, potassium, beams, paper of life and checkmark.

**Early Life:**

Adam Carl Cayman was the second son of Tina Lanehill and David Cayman, after Cayman's older brother by four years, Drew Cayman. David Cayman, Adam's dad was a woodworker, which were the some of the vital signs for his love of the guitar. David would often receive a guitar to fix, and young Adam after school used to watch him fix guitar bodies. Whilst Tina Lanehill, Adam's mother, was a housewife, taking care of the family at all times.

Cayman attended Entwistle Bay Academy from the age of 6 up till 16. Adam didn't like his primary school years, as he described in the song "Paper of life". He has still had early memories of being confined in a classroom for seven hours and not benefiting anything out of it. However, when Cayman turned 10, he started middle school, were he found a grip for his love of music. In an interview he did with NBC Three in 1986, a friend from his from English class gave him a spare copy of "Rock Around The Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets as he wanted to try vinyl as he got a record player from a far-distant relative for Christmas.

His family wasn't big into music, his father would occasionally turn on the radio in his workshop, and would tune it on *Neutralston Transfusion Station One* (now NBC Radio 1) and would listen to some concurrent pop songs, trough he never found a real passion in listening to music. Cayman's mum didn't listen to music as she was a devout Catholic, and calling music "the gospel of satan himself", so Cayman was left finding music fans alike in his time at school.

**Early Career:**

For Cayman's 12th birthday, his father built him a guitar, and up till his death, still called it "a gift from the almighty". He learned how to play guitar from a magazine his grandfather got him. At the age of 14, Cayman joined a local secondary school band called the Coffee Brewers were he sung and played backing guitar. But due to the narcissistic nature of drummer Damian Di Giovanni, the band members quickly split ways.

In 1966, got his standard secondary exams (SSEs) and quickly moved to Neutralston City, in a small terrace house near Waters Street Railway station. Once he got settled in Neutralston city, Cayman got a job at a local musical instrument shop to earn an income to help him get grounds in his musical career. In late 1967, Cayman went on to record his first demo song "Printing Propaganda" an anti Vietnam war song. The shop Cayman worked at turned out to have a recording studio on the second floor, and gave the demo tape to Neutralston-renouned record producer Thomas Turowski, Thomas liked the narrative of the song, especially that the government that was currently in power, which both Cayman and Turowski supported, would take his first hints of a musical careers to local success.

Cayman released his first single on February 11th, 1968, and his 45-inch single "Printing Propaganda" and the B-side song of "Innocence of Hanoi" reached number 13 on the local Neutralston City charts, and had minor success in places such as Wakeman and Dorrington. This lead to Cayman leaving selling instruments full time to part-time, and going on to performing his music at local pubs and bars. The Old Larry's at Market District in the capital city was one of his favourite, as he said on an interview with the Lavendershire Popping Music Magazine.

**Performance at The Pinewood Love Festival of 1970:**

Cayman's performance at the Pinewood Love Festival marked a significant shift in his musical career, from a local urban musician with little recognition, The Pinewood Love Festival of 1970 took Cayman to the National, and slightly to the International level. His ten minute opener performance at the festival were he perfumed his original 45 inch single of "Printing Propaganda" and the B-side song of "Innocence of Hanoi" and other songs he was working during his free time such as "My beloved race Surfing on the Neutro River" a patriotic song in favor of the ultimate holy genocide. a song unfortunately never released.