Bio

Blake Hughes began music early, as a 7-year old kid pretending a yardstick was his air guitar. He loved to play any type of musical instrument. Blake's childhood exposed him to all genres of music, from rock and roll to folk.

One of his favorite memories of playing a musical instrument was during his early '20s while he was attending both Western Washington University and Fairhaven college. There was a path between the two campus's and along the way was a huge log sculpture. One day he found a pair of sticks lying on the ground next to the sculpture and the sculpture became a musical instrument in his mind. From then on while he attended school he played the sculpture like a big xylophone. When the sculpture was dry he remembers it as having the most beautiful tone (with the right set of sticks).

By early high school in the late 70's, Blake had begun developing what he calls 'meditative melodies' in his unique finger style using open tunings like those often found in blues.

The song "A Perfect World", found on Blake's first CD 'Meditations for Modern Mystics' was written for a high school senior music class in response to world events in the sixties and seventies. The positive feedback from that song led to more song writing.

Sponsored by his Italian benefactor Ricardo Gramegna, Blake's first compact disc, Meditations for Modern Mystics is currently not in distribution but was first released in 1999.

One of the new songs on his upcoming second compact disc, tentatively to be titled Electric Clarity, is called Anything is Possible (When You First Believe in You). The day after he wrote the song, he was standing in his Greenlake, Washington studio apartment practicing it - and feeling pretty happy with himself. He turned the Oprah show on while playing the song's chorus - "Anything is possible if first you believe in you."

There was a camera shot of her set and no audio as the television warmed up. Then Oprah appeared on the screen while Blake had again started singing the lyric "Anything is possible - if first you believe in you" and Oprah said as she turned to face the camera, "That's my favorite phrase" –paused–then she added, "anything is possible if first you believe in you".

Stunned at the amazing timing - feeling that only God could do that—after all, Oprah was on a tape delay!—this profound experience later brought Blake through some dark days.

He tried to contact Oprah to give her a copy of the song, but soon found out that discovering yourself and trying to tell Oprah about it was more difficult than getting tickets to her show!

Blake writes about inner exploration as a way of addressing external problems, and through believing in yourself moving your dreams out of the realm of possibility and into reality.

"Thank Your Angels" another song on the upcoming album, is about the indescribable forces that connect human souls.

His personal spiritual journey is grounded to this earth through his music...ever changing, always growing. His fans have said that his music opens them to the movements of their own inner minds.

As an example of Blake's current philosophy, his song "Happiness is an Action Game" proposes that you DO have to find love inside yourself before you look for it from someone else.