Joshua Kadison
- Composer
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Joshua Kadison began playing piano and writing songs when he was 12.
Influences on his emotionally romantic style of music include
Cole Porter and the songwriting teams of
Richard Rodgers and
Lorenz Hart, Rodgers and
Oscar Hammerstein, and
George Gershwin and his brother
Ira Gershwin. Kadison left his Hollywood
Hills home after the early death in 1978 of his mother, actress
Gloria Castillo, eventually ending up in
Nashville. After being signed by SBK, he released Painted Desert
Serenade in 1993 & followed by Delilah Blue in 1995. He moved labels to
EMI Germany and 'Vanishing America' was released in 2001.