BIOGRAPHY
For nearly 50 years now, John Daniels has worked as a songwriter and composer, primarily in the field of Gospel and Christian music. With very little formal music education, John started his working life as an accountant, until a meeting with long time friend Dave Pope and folk group, ‘The Alethians’, led within a few short years to what would become a lifetime journey as a musician.
John grew up in the village of Cowplain just outside Portsmouth on the south coast of England, and any formal music education was limited to the two years of piano lessons he took at 11 years old. Like many others of that era, he learned guitar by playing along to records ... vinyl albums, that is ... and his involvement in the local Cowplain Free Church gospel choir, and "Good News" folk group among others, provided much of his early musical foundation and spurred his interest in songwriting.
Initially taking part in church-based outreach missions, coffee bars & concerts etc., from the mid 1970’s, 'through the 80's and and into the early '90's John worked extensively in the British ‘Contemporary Christian Music’ movement of its day. First as a songwriter and musician, then moving into music production, direction and arranging, as well as occasionally his own solo concerts and events.
Among songs of his that were published in the UK at that time, some made their way across the Atlantic to a few U.S. gospel artists. It was on a concert tour in Canada and the U.S. in 1979 that John met his future wife, Tami, to whom he's been married since 1981.
In 1991 John, Tami and their two young children moved across the Atlantic and settled for a few years in the Fort Worth area of Texas. As well as a few years spent as Music Minister in a local church there, in 1994 John started writing and producing the original music underscore for an American Christian T.V. program and documentary series called “Day Of Discovery” produced by "Our Daily Bread Ministries". So for more than twenty years, up until the time when production on the program stopped, John worked on many of their teaching, biographical and dramatic documentaries, including during a few years spent living back in England in the late 1990’s, and a final move back to Texas in 2002, where he and his family still live.
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John continues to create and produce music, occasionally collaborating with friends and artists, including fellow Brit Charles Timberlake on Charles’s piano based instrumental albums, and a few years ago with Dave Pope on an album including many of their early songs from the 1970’s and '80's.
