Gerry was born into a very musical family in Ireland. Both parents were professional musicians and singers, and his mother had toured the USA and UK with show bands in the sixties. With all the musical mayhem that this brought to a fiery and tempestous family life, going into music was bound to happen.

Gerry began his musical training in classical piano forte through the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and celtic music, dance and theatre with Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, the Irish organisation for the revival and peformance of cultural arts. During that period he represented his county and province as a solo and group artist where he won All Ireland competitions through solo and group performances.

By the time he was in his mid-teens, Gerry abandoned the strict regime of classical music as he preferred to learn all the music aurally (normally after just one listen) rather than follow the notes. Ultimately, he got tired of having his knuckles rapped with a ruler by the nun who was his teacher at the time for not following the music!

Having performed in several celtic and contemporary theatre productions, Gerry went to university near Dublin and became heavily involved in music performance and production whilst completing an english degree. When college was over, Gerry went on his travels and eventually ended up in Leeds where he focused on developing and writing songs as a musician in a band.

Gerry was in a Leeds based band for over ten years and gigged extensively throughout the UK. In that time, they were considered to be one of the best bands in Leeds at the time and attracted attention from several publishing houses and record labels in London including EMI, Rondor Music Publishing, Gut Records and Brian May of Queen. They also signed to a successful management company and even had Elliot Kennedy (writer and producer for Sony) work with them in his Steelworks studios Sheffield for almost two years on a development deal. At the time Elliott was enjoying great success with the Spice Girls, Take that, Celine Dion, Michael Jackson and Brian Adams.

However, the music industry being what it is, what looked like a "stairway to musical heaven" turned out to be a "stairway to nowhere" and eventually Gerry put the band project on hold while he returned to full time education at the Leeds College of Music to expand and update his skills in music production. Before commencing his studies, Gerry was contracted to digitally transcribe, produce and direct the music for a week long concert at Siamsa, the National Folk Theatre of Ireland.

During his degree studies at the Leeds College of Music, Gerry was asked to get involved in two exciting projects. He produced and conducted an inner city childrens school choir for a live performance to welcome the Queen on stage at the Jubilee concert in Temple Newsham 2002. After that he was invited to work in Cairo with Yasser Shabaan, a well known Egyptian artist who does regular work for national TV, Disney and other major American advertising and programming producers (he is currently one of the Arabic voice over-dubs on Ugly Betty). Gerry provided a song, and arranged and produced the music for Yasser which he then performed at the Cairo International Conference Centre. This was part of the international music festival and broadcast on Nile TV.

Gerry completed his BAHons Degree on 2004 which was awarded though Leeds University. After that he launched his own company, LaDeDa Productions, based in Huddersfield and has been self employed as a music producer. Contracts have included

• full sing radio commercials for Forever Broadcasting in USA
• soundtrack, theme tunes and voice over productions for several corporate and public sector projects with Leagus Video
• theme tunes and backround music for national and regional TV advertising with Chief TV in Manchester.

During this time, he also teamed up with Robert Ruddock, singer/songwriter from Bradford. After a few initial meetings and jamming sessions, they realised that they complemented each other strongly in songwriting and performance. Gerry was very inpressed with Robert's skill as a vocalist and his songwriting abilities. Robert's backround is tradionally black soul music but has always been interested in a wider musical genre. Gerry has been influenced by, and incorporates music from a vast array of musical genres including soul, rock, pop, jazz, electronic, folk and film sountrack. Like a number of other producers, Gerry feels that it is good to embrace music from many sources as it keeps things fresh and interesting.

Gerry has been working with Robert for the last three years, helping him to develop and challenge himself as an artist and produce a collection of songs that reflect so many issues and emotions that are relevant to his own, and many other people's lives. They have finshed recording the first EP with the songs featured on this site.

Gerry would like to thank all the other musicians involved for all of their efforts in helping to make this project a reality. Without their talents and abilities, and willingness to trust him as a producer, working sympathetically with the music, it would not have been possible to realise the songs to the standard that has been achieved. A big thank you also to Mark Sturgess at Soundstation Studios for doing a great job as the sound recording engineer, and completely understanding the objectives of the productions.