Performance is Dave Borins’ version of living a fantasy. The weight of the world is lifted from his shoulders, and his personality is revealed, naked, unchecked and unapologetic. In addition to his original compositions, he also draws on an enormous and eclectic repertoire of great songs by other artists. Dave’s energetic performances have long been a closely held secret among a small group of people in Toronto and Montreal, but he is starting to make waves.

Dave grew up in Toronto, but his songwriting and performances have been shaped by his experience working as canoe trip guide in Algonquin National Park, and attending school in Montreal. Although folk, classic rock and roots music is the cornerstone of his musical background, Dave refuses to confine himself to one genre. His musical education has taken him to the Far East, South America, and the South Pacific, and as a teenager, he developed a reputation as a jazz vocalist, singing in an ensemble that included Sophie Milman, before she became a top-selling jazz artist. More recently, Dave has been exploring children’s music, working as an early childhood educator and becoming an expert campfire singer. Through it all, however, Dave has developed a unique voice and style that is all his own.

Dave plays with one ear in the sky, and one in the dirt. Nothing is sacred, but all things are respected. Old-fashioned, roots-based music and themes are fused with modern ideas, characters and situations. His music is catchy and familiar, yet somehow otherworldly. His lyrics are deeply influenced by literature and poetry, adding depth and subtlety to the infectious melodies, but this music is truly inclusive. He mixes the sweet with the bold, the old with the new, and he is setting the groundwork for a long successful musical career.

He thought he completed his Debut album "Songs of Sense and Colour" in July 2007, but Dave has recently been picked up by legendary producer Bob Gallo, RLF Entertainment and THEDORSEYTOUCH Promotions. They brought him in to Phase One studios to recut some of the tracks, and a major promotional campaign is in the works. Songs of Sense and Colour was originally written, recorded and performed by Dave, now it is in the process of being re-envisioned.

Dave was recently nominated for "best live acoustic artist" at the 2007 Toronto Indie Music Awards. Other recent accomplishments include this summer's "campfire tour" where he performed throughout Ontario in outdoor venues large and small. In 2006, he was a finalist at the Toronto Independent Music Festival, and the demo version of the song “You Don’t Really Love Me” was licensed to air across America on PBS’s Road Trip Nation, a reality show about finding a personalized path to success.

If you haven’t heard of Dave Borins, you will soon. He’s been making heads turn and hands clap in small venues all over Toronto and Montreal, but you can’t contain energy like this for long. Dave Borins is definitely one to watch.

Produced by Legendary Bob Gallo:
He began work at AudioSonic Recording Studios in the Brill Building where he continued his training by the best in the business at studio engineering. The Brill Building was the home to the best of the creative talent of the sixties, and Bob Gallo worked with the top talent around.

At the age of 21 Bob Gallo was called in to do a recording session at Bell Sound Studios in New York, with a singing group called the “Crests” that included the young Johnny Maestro. One of the songs recorded and produced by Bob that day, entitled “Sixteen Candles” went on to become a Number One hit, and that was the turning point in Gallo’s career as a music arranger and record producer.

By 1966 Bob had opened his own recording studios, Bob Gallo’s Talent Master Recording Studio at Broadway and 42nd St. and it was here that he worked with so many of the giant talents of the sixties, sometimes engineering, sometimes writing, and mostly producing for the likes of James Brown, Ben E. King, The Drifters, Bo Diddley etc. He engineered Wilbur Harrison’s #1 hit, “Kansas City”, produced a stack of demos for a young Richie Havens, and frequently had Carole King rehearse there.

Because of his classical background, Bob was one of the first arranger/producers to encompass large orchestrations in Pop music.

Recognizing Bob’s great success and talent, Jerry Wexler, President of Atlantic Records bought into Bob Gallo’s Talent Master Recording Studios so that he could access Bob’s talents for his own stable of stars. Bob Gallo was responsible for the production of many huge hit singles including; Grammy winning No. 1 Hit, It’s a Man’s World, by James Brown, No. 1 Hit, “96 Tears” by Question Mark and the Mysterions, No. 1 Hit, “Groovin’”, by the Young Rascals.

As a talented musician, arranger and composer Bob Gallo wrote for and produced such legends as Ottis Redding, James Brown, Ben E. King, Patti LaBelle, Aretha Franklin, Big Mabell, The Drifters and Bo Diddley.

Being very much in demand Bob divided his time working for both Atlantic Records and Columbia Records throughout the sixties and early seventies.

Bob has an amazing ear, and ability to scope out new talent. Shadow Morton brought a young unknown band to Bob’s Long Island Soundview Studios in 1970 and Bob, feeling the band had great promise engineered their first demo recordings. That group was KISS.

Shortly after that, while at a music convention in England, Bob Gallo spied a young Elvis Costello, strumming for change outside on the street and recommended him to Walter Zetnikoff, than President of CBS Records. He encouraged a couple of other young talents with sage words of advice and direction, the unknown Neil Diamond and Billy Joel.

In the early seventies Bob headed to Nashville and produced Ronny Prophet but found the musical environment at that time too restrictive for any fresh approach.

In 1974, impressed by Bob’s ability to spot and nurture talent, CBS Records Canada head hunted Bob Gallo to become head of A&R for CBS Records Canada. He developed some great R&B talent and music for Pop Radio and was the instrumental factor in the acceptance of Black R&B music on Pop Radio.

Ben E. King introduced Bob to a young singer named Jimmy Young who Bob developed into a top artist, writing and producing five albums for Jimmy Young that gained wide success in Canada, the United States and Europe. Bob was responsible for many top hits while working with many Canadian artists such as Jackson Hawk, Patsy Gallant, The Hellfield Band, Zon, and produced the first Nylons album which reached Gold and Platinum status and received a Juno Award.

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