Ferraby Lionheart is a Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

 based singer-songwriter-musician.

Ferraby Lionheart was born in Los Angeles, but has lived in Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...

. He started recording songs on a 4-track

4-track

4-track or 4-track tape may refer to:* The 4-track cartridge as an analogue music storage format popular from the late 1950s* A 4-track tape used in professional recording studios for multitrack recording...

 recorder when he was 18. Through a mutual friend, Ferraby was noticed by producer/multi-instrumentalist Jon Brion

Jon Brion

Jon Brion is an American rock and pop multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, composer and record producer.-Early life:...

, who invited him to play on-stage for a song. According to the biography on his website, he never intended to have an EP at first, as he just had a collection of songs to see where his music was heading—and the fact that he had grown tired of writing songs for the band he was in at the time, Telecast (not to be confused with the Christian rock band of the same name

Telecast (band)

Telecast is a Christian worship band. The band began in Spokane, Washington with Josh White and guitarist Brian Ortize after the grunge movement. Telecast released its debut album, The Beauty of Simplicity, on BEC Records in 2003, and followed it with Eternity is Now on the same label in 2005...

). The self-titled EP was released in 2006, then re-released digitally in February 2007. He was named after John Ferraby

John Ferraby

John Ferraby was a British Bahá'í born in Southsea, England into a liberal Jewish family. He was educated at Malvern and at King's College, Cambridge, to which he won a major scholarship....

 who was also member of the Bahá'í Faith

Bahá'í Faith

The Bahá'í Faith is a monotheistic religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh in 19th-century Persia, emphasizing the spiritual unity of all humankind. There are an estimated five to six million Bahá'ís around the world in more than 200 countries and territories....

 - Lionheart describes himself as a "spiritual guy" who keeps his religion a "prominent part of my life."

His debut album, Catch the Brass Ring

Catch the Brass Ring

Catch the Brass Ring is the debut album from Los Angeles, California based singer-songwriter Ferraby Lionheart. It was released on September 4, 2007 by Nettwerk Records...

, was released on by Nettwerk Records on September 4, 2007.

Ferraby currently resides in Los Angeles.

Discography

• Ferraby Lionheart EP
  Ferraby Lionheart EP
  Ferraby Lionheart is the self-titled, self-released debut EP from singer-songwriter Ferraby Lionheart. Ferraby recorded the EP over the course of a few months while still with his then-current band Telecast. He recorded the songs entirely in his "one-room apartment in a two-story building from the...
  
  (2006) Jason Stare played drums on "The Fighter", "A Crack in Time", "The Ballad of Gus and Sam"
• Catch the Brass Ring
  Catch the Brass Ring
  Catch the Brass Ring is the debut album from Los Angeles, California based singer-songwriter Ferraby Lionheart. It was released on September 4, 2007 by Nettwerk Records...
  
  (September 4, 2007) Jason Stare played drums on "Pure Imagination"
• The Jack of Hearts (2010)

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