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DONNIE DEMERS
The Back Story

From the onset of his
childhood, it was evident that
the music abilities of Donnie
Demers were more than just a
passing phase. By the time
Donnie was four years old, he
had experienced his first brush
with an audience.
It was at the Worcester
Auditorium, 25 miles west of
Boston, Massachusetts, where
four year old Donnie Demers
would experience a musical
nirvana. A local charity event
was featuring Donnie’s aunt
Shirley singing a song for the
crowd, when she decided to
bring the eager youngster up on
stage to sing with her. Singing
“I’m A Little Teapot,” it was
there that music would become
the center of Donnie’s universe
from that point on.
That following Christmas, at
the top of Donnie’s list was a
piano! He got the piano, but
alas, it was a small toy version.
Donnie immediately asked for
(and received) permission to
use the “real” piano at his
elementary school during recess
while the other children went
outside to play. This continued
throughout Donnie’s
elementary education. By the
time he was in high school,
Donnie had taught himself how
to play the piano … a tool that
would assist his writing
abilities to an echelon of
extraordinary ability.
It was around the age of seven
when Donnie first began
writing songs, and with great
passion. He hasn’t stopped
since then.
After graduating from High
School, Donnie attended the
University of Arizona in
Tucson. It was there where the
music of Donnie Demers would
first be professionally recorded
and it was also there where
Donnie’s life changed forever.
“When we began laying down
the string tracks for ‘Please
Come Back To Me’, I can
recall putting my head into both
of my hands and quietly
sobbing,” Donnie remembers,
“I knew at that moment that
having Muscular Dystrophy
was no longer the ‘thing’ that
defined me … during the
second chorus of a song I
wrote, accompanied by the
most beautiful string section I
had ever heard.”
Since those early years,
Donnie has traveled the world
over, appearing on nationally
televised programs,
performing with full
orchestras, and playing for a
host of well-known
personalities. From Elizabeth
Taylor to Miles Davis, and
audiences from Vienna,
Austria to Shanghai, China,
the music of Donnie Demers
has inspired and touched the
lives of literally tens of
thousands of listeners. The
legendary songwriter, Sammy
Cahn once said of Donnie’s
music, “It is only a matter of
time before everyone knows
who Donnie is!”

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• LOVE THE FEELING (UNRELEASED COCA-COLA JINGLE DEMO) by musical_wheels
• I'm So Glad You Are Mine by musical_wheels
• Love Gave You A Fairytale by musical_wheels
• We Believed (demo) by musical_wheels
• Christmas Again (Eaton/Demers)DEMO by musical_wheels
• Somewhere Over The Rainbow by musical_wheels
• Forever One by musical_wheels