I write songs for the long drive home — three minutes of melody and the truth.
John DiGrazia is a Los Angeles based singer-songwriter, photographer, and artist working in the space where adult-contemporary pop meets the late-night confession.
His writing leans on melody first — emotional, hook-driven, unhurried — taking cues from Steve Perry, Prince, and Mariah Carey, and threading them through twenty years of independent records made on his own terms.
When he isn't in the studio, he's on the strand with a camera. The beach pictures are part of the same project: small frames of an enormous city, made one morning at a time.
Melancholy, melody, and the particular feeling of a Los Angeles winter — slow tempo, warm production, and a hook that stays long after the storm passes.
Open on Apple Music →A first taste of what's coming next. Tracked clean, mixed warm, and meant for the windows-down hour between the freeway and the ocean.
Open on Apple Music →
A first taste of the next record, tracked live at Sunset Sound with the road band. Pre-save going up this month.
A run of 20 hand-printed 8×10s from the Venice and Manhattan negatives, signed and numbered.
Four weeks, four sets, mostly new material. Mid-Wilshire, 9pm, no cover before 8:45.
The Santa Monica opener finds a second life in Low Tide, a Sundance entry from director M. Reyes.
A working list of venues played since 2003 — clubs, bars, theatres, festivals, living rooms, and the occasional church basement. Mostly Los Angeles. Some of these places aren't there anymore. They counted anyway.
Drop a line — I read everything. Replies might be slow if the band is on the road.
