User:Dhmusicgroup/Daniel harrison

The Beginning Daniel Harrison was born Daniel James Harrison Jr. April 4, 1991 in Fairfield, California. He was named after his father, Daniel James Harrison Sr. and by his mother, Christine Diane Duyst Harrison. He and his family lived in Vacaville.

Early Life At the age of five Daniel began singing in a children's choir called Kids-R-Music conducted by Judy Blair and sparingly sang for his church in Fairfield, the Fairfield Christian Reformed Church. Also at the age of five Daniel's younger brother, Aaron Timothy, was born on June 20, 1996. On October 20, 1998 Daniel took his first piano lesson with Rhonda Russell. In October of 1999, Daniel's parents adopted Daniel's youngest sibling and only sister, Rachel Nadezhda, from Russia. Rachel's Russian name was Nadezhda Prokopanko.

Early Piano Career In 1998 Rhonda Russell taught Daniel the basics to the piano. After she moved to Tennessee in 2001 Daniel began classical music lessons with Chris Bell a music major at California State University - Sacramento. In 2006 Chris Bell moved with his wife and family after finishing his masters degree in Classical Music. Later that year Daniel began lessons with Chris Holmes, a Worship Pastor at a Vacaville Catholic church. In 2006 Daniel released an album in a fundraiser with covers of classical music he had learned with Chris Bell. The fundraiser was to raise money for a youth trip where people purchased a jar of his family's homeade strawberry jelly and received a free CD. Daniel continued lessons with Chris Holmes until 2008 when Chris Holmes determined Daniel "too advanced to teach." Between the time of the fundraiser album and 2008 Daniel released 3 albums available to people at his church. After 2008 Daniel began his professional career. Daniel began writing music and built up a portfolio of over 250 original songs.

Professional Piano Career In 2008 Daniel established his own independent record label DH Music Group. Also in 2008 Daniel registered under TuneCore. In May 2009 Daniel released his first digital album onto iTunes, Rhapsody, and Amazon. The album featured 10 original songs under his artist name 'Miser Piano Man.' In July 2009 the Mister Piano Man Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace pages announced the second professional project from Mister Piano Man. The Press Release announced four singles releasing September 1, 8, 15, and 22 of 2009 as well as a full length 10 track album on October 1, 2009. All 14 of those songs will release onto iTunes U.S. and Canada as well as Rhapsody and Amazon MP3.

Radio Career Daniel began on his high school's radio station VCSRadio AM 1670 his junior year. Halfway through his senior year he was offered an internship on San Francisco's KDIA AM 1640. His one hour 'Sunday Nights at 9' program averaged over 10,000 listeners. Six months later his one hour program was moved to Saturdays at noon. His Hollywood Satarizing one hour program averaged over 60,000 listeners and got him noticed and quoted by several major radio stations like 107.9 The End, KLOVE, and On Air with Ryan Seacrest.

Book Publication Daniel is currently in the middle of writing six books. The books include: a That's What She Said joke book, an epic novel about high school drama, a collection of short stories about working in the Fast Food industry, a Theological book, an autobiographical comedy, and a book of poetry. Although none of his six books are currently in publication, Publish America is in line for publishing his That's What She Said book upon completion.

World Hunger Relief Daniel's freshman year he participated in World Vision's 30 Hour Famine along with 12 of his classmates. His sophomore year there was no 30 Hour Famine at his school. His junior year Daniel decided to lead his school in World Hunger Relief. 74 of the 360 students participated under his leadership and under a U.S. matching grant raised over $60,000 for World Vision's World Hunger Relief project. Daniel led the 30 Hour Famine at his high school his senior year as well and along with 109 other students fasted food for 30 hours to bring awareness to World Hunger. They raised over $12,000 his senior year for a total of over %75,000 under Daniel's leadership. In the Daily Republic newspaper who covered the event Daniel said that his life goal would be to become U.S. Secretary of Internation Affairs so that he can get the world involved with eliminating World Hunger.

Political Life In April 2009 Daniel was picked as Director of Youth Outreach for Chris Bunch for Congress. Chris Bunch is running in the special election when Tauscher steps down for her job with the Obama Administration. Chris Bunch is the GOP candidate. Daniel hopes to be involved with many political campaigns throughout his life and eventually wants to become U.S. Secretary of International Affairs and eventually president. During the 2008 election between 44th president Barack Obama and Arizona Senator John McCain, Daniel was Chief Political Analyst on his high school's radio station. Daniel's political views can be categorized as Common Sence.

Education Daniel graduated from Vacaville Christian High School on June 11, 2009 and on August 24, 2009 will start at California State University - Fresno. He plans to major in Mass Communications with aspirations of being a Radio/Television personality/talk show host.