Seth Power - Make It Mine
NEW ARTIST SETH POWER IS TRULY SOMETHING ORIGINAL
Seth Power is one lyrically sound 22 year old. That is to be expected when he draws on influences such as John Mayer, Ed Sheeran, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Bill Withers, James Brown, and Al Green.
“I use John Mayer and Sheeran’s songwriting as a model for my own while utilizing Stevie’s bluesy sound in my guitar playing,” he shares. “I love artists like Bill Withers and James Brown and their ability to evoke so much emotion with their style and singing. I use all of these influences and many more when I write.” Power, a Brandon native, is one of the seven artists chosen from N.O.W. Entertainment’s audition entitled The Search. In 2014, N.O.W. Entertainment held auditions every Saturday for three months in search of Mississippi’s next big artists. More than 800 artists from around the region auditioned for a chance to work with some of Mississippi’s most talented producers, songwriters, musicians and engineers to produce a single in the Grammy Award winning Terminal Studios. The winners also receive a professional photo shoot, promotional video and publicity for their single.
Seth began playing the guitar at 10 years old. Despite booking weekly gigs in various....in and around Mississippi State University's college town, Starkville, Powers only recently considered a music career after hearing a commercial for "The Search" on the radio. He had his sight set on something else. “As a kid I dreamed of being a professional soccer player... until I was introduced to football,” Power recalls. “ I turned down scholarships at smaller schools to pursue an opportunity to walk on at Mississippi State. I quit after a year when I realized that it wasn’t
what I wanted or needed anymore. Looking back it’s obvious that it was meant to be because stepping away from athletics allowed me to start playing music.”
“Although singing and songwriting have always been a part of my identity it has never been something that I was very public about, until now of course. Now that it has happened I’m determined to make a life out of it. I can’t imagine anything as fulfilling or meaningful than playing and writing music for the rest of my life and I hope that this is the beginning of a long and fruitful career.”
“The world needs to know about Seth Power,” states Kamel King, attorney and co-founder of N.O.W. Entertainment and The Search. “He is one of Mississippi’s hidden jewels. He blew us away at his audition with his vocals and musicianship.”
“Make It Mine” is Power’s new single. He wrote it when he was 19 years old. The Mississippi State graduate worked with multi-award winning producer Randy Everett. Power played all of the instruments himself. The song highlights the struggle between love and professional lives.“I saw my future in a dream, and now I’ve gotta make it mine,” Power prophetically sings in a raspy, breathy voice over a looping guitar.
“I write music in an effort to better understand myself and the people and events around me, but it is due to the fact that I, nor anyone else, can really understand the power of music that I’ve
chosen to devote my life to it,” Power said. “I don’t want to do something every day that I understand. It would be boring and lack spontaneity. I love the fact that every time I write a song, regardless of how good it is, that I just created something that no one else on earth has ever heard or experienced, something purely original.”
