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Pop/rock singer/songwriter/pianist Ian McGlynn is the son of rock & roll drummer Ed McGlynn; his mother is a classically trained pianist. He began playing piano at age three and wrote his first song at 12. A graduate of the Berklee College of Music, he recorded his first album, Lemon, live at the Lemon Lounge on July 22, 2001, accompanied by his father and bassist Bill Knudson, and released it on his own IEM Music label on December 10, 2002. His first studio album, Tomorrow's Taken, appeared on Bailey Park Records on April 13, 2004, with a remix version, Tomorrow's Re-Taken, following on March 7, 2007. His song "Nowhere" was featured under the closing credits of the film Off the Black (2006), and his songs were also used in My Mom's New Boyfriend (2008) and One -- A Lucid Experience. His second studio album, This Is the Sound, was released on October 21, 2008. During the spring and summer of 2009, he released four digital singles: "Nowhere," "I Took an Oath," "Listening In," and "We Should Hang in the Museum."
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Ian McGlynn (born July 4, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer.
Early life and career
Ian’s career began as a child model and actor. Featured in commercials and print ads for most of his childhood, he was mainly recognized as the face on the Congespirin Aspirin box for almost a decade.
Leaving acting and modeling to further his studies in music, he began to learn the violin, piano and drums all at the age of 5. Ian also studied under voice coach Al Greiner, famous for his work with Connie Francis and Irene Cara.
At the age of 12 he began composing his own music. He recorded his first demo tape, using a dual cassette deck, recording and then looping each part live from one cassette to the other. The result being 7 original pop songs. These recordings have never been released to the public.
Ian attended Ridge High School in Basking Ridge, NJ where he studied voice under voice coach Barbara Retzko.
Ian graduated cum laude from Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1995 with a Bachelor of Music degree in Professional Music as a Singer/Songwriter.
In 1998, Ian produced, recorded and released his self-titled debut 6-song EP. It was released independent of any record labels and only 1000 copies were printed. It is now out of print.
In 1999 Ian performed “Surrender” from his debut EP on the PAX show “Destination Stardom.” In the same year he returned to acting for a brief moment playing the part of Lewis Walton, the love interest of Gertrude Tredwell, in the History Channel show “Haunted History: New York - Episode: “Merchant’s House Museum - Manhattan, NYC.”
In 2001 Ian recorded a live album with his father Ed McGlynn on drums and multi-instrumentalist Bill Knudson on bass. They recorded all 15 songs in a coffee shop to a small audience in the town where Ian grew up. The Lemon Lounge in Basking Ridge, NJ. The live album “Lemon” was released in December 2002 independent of any record labels. Like his debut EP, there were only 1000 copies printed. It was released in a limited edition silver tin with two lemon scented scratch ‘n sniff stickers on each side.
