domdeluca

My name is Dom DeLuca. I'm a singer/songwriter born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I continue to live there. It's where all my changes are.

My latest record is called, A BELL I GOTTA RING.

"I don't care, it's a bell I gotta ring. Talk of danger and of other awful things. I don't care, I don't care, it's a bell I gotta ring."

That lyric, from his new song and new record, "A Bell I Gotta Ring", sums Dom De Luca up. It's not a matter of want, but need.

Townes Van Zandt was the first songwriter who truly opened up his eyes, his mind and his heart to the craft. "I haven't closed them since." Dom says with a smile. Writing simply and directly and with a keen eye for the details of life and a storyteller's flare for drama and metaphor, De Luca is driven to get it all out in melody and rhyme.

Back in 2008, De Luca released a laid back folk record called, "Birds Of Worry", which received plenty of radio play on CBC, CKLN, CIUT, BREAKTHRU, INDIE LOVE, AMHERST ISLAND RADIO, CANOE 100.9. Well reviewed in various blogs, BOW even lead Dom to Halifax, where he was invited to play the IN THE DEAD OF WINTER ACOUSTIC FESTIVAL in January of 2009.

Now, after months of prep and recording at CBC STUDIOS, in downtown Toronto, Dom De Luca is back with a more polished and diverse collection of tunes that are of a much more personal nature than those on his first record, "I may have run out of beans to spill.", Dom jokes. "But, I have to or else it's all just an empty and meaningless creative exercise. Picture a house without a door. There's no point inviting people over, if you have no way of letting them in." Delicate, aching love songs of hope and despair, a somber, epic tale about one's domestic pain birthing another's domestic joy, rousing folk-rockers that tear the roof of the joint, to joyful, ear-candy, folk-pop and reggae inspired exuberant expressions of love and delighted obsession. These are the irresistibly catchy songs that make up A BELL I GOTTA RING. "I put a heart on the cover of the record. 'Nuff said."

In fact, if one word could sum up Dom De Luca it would be "heart." "Follow it and you'll serve yourself. Ignore it and you'll serve someone else."

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