Chris Doyle - Indie Interpretations

Today's YouTube musician will be Chris Doyle (username: xBuryTheCastle), an 18 year old boy form the U.S. who has deep passion and determination for music. I remember stating that Jake Coco was a badly unknown compared to his skills, Chris is even worse. Even though he is 18, he has a very deep and interesting taste of music, and seems to be a mature and sophisticated young man.


"When I look at the world and see how much hatred and conflict exists, I sometimes ask myself: "What's the point to it all?" Music reminds me what that point is: The point of life isn't to merely exist, the point is to LIVE. The point is to do what you love while you are here. That is why I write, sing, play guitar -- because music is what I love the most in life." -quote from channel description-


He makes various covers of mostly his favorite musicians, the people who he marked as 'influences': Imogen Heap, Muse, 30 Seconds To Mars.

Above is the magical video that introduced me into his world. While searching for some good pop mash-up videos, I ran upon Chris's pop medley of the top 40 billboard songs of 2010, instantly falling in love with his great style of music.

As I said before, he seems to have a deep and unique taste of music (at least I think so). Thus, I often get to know many great indie musicians when checking out his channel. This video cover of the song 'Dog Days Are Over' had introduced me into an awesome indie band named Florence + The Machine, which I now love and sincerely enjoy listening to.


If you're sick and bored of mainstream pop songs these days that somehow seem to sound all alike, it's almost mandatory that you check out Chris's channel and observe some of his work. Peace!

Mystery Guitar Man

Hello guys, today's YouTube musician will be Joe (username: MysteryGuitarMan/real name unknown), a Brazilian-American that has a mind that seems to be from the 4th dimension! To be honest, I'm not sure if he should be listed as a YouTube musician, since he does plenty of other cool and amazing videos rather than just musical ones, but I guess he counts since he does make some videos that are related to music in some way. Using crazily amazing and jaw-dropping video editing techniques, he makes brilliant and outstanding videos.

Above is just one brief example of the whole pile of epic videos Joe creates every Tuesday. He makes the most inspiring videos with the most random ideas/supplies. I have always wondered where all his bizarre ideas came from, and wished a had such a creative mind like him :P

This is a video of him mixing up video game sound effects (which he recreated himself) and composing it into classical music. Here, you can observe a glimpse of his high-class video editing skills, along with his unique sense of humor.

That would be it for today, be sure to check his channel out!

Be My Valentine, Kina Grannis

Today’s YouTube Musician will be a very talented young lady from Los Angeles, Kina Grannis (username: kinagrannis). She has a total of 351,990 subscribers, placing her as the 37th (as of may 27th) most subscribed musician on YouTube. She is well-known as a great singer-songwriter, thus produces loads of richly flavored original music. Oh, that doesn’t mean she only makes original songs. She also uploads various covers of mainstream/non-mainstream music as well.

This is the official music video for her original song, ‘Valentine’, which is probably her most famous original. Although it is now 3 years old, the song is still loved by YouTubers. It was even sang by a KIS senior during the ‘Raise The Roof!’ fund-raising concert held by the Habitat for Humanity club.

She is also known for frequently making collaboration videos with other YouTubers, particularly David Choi, who was introduced in one of my previous blog posts. Above is a video of my favorite collaboration video made by them, ‘My Time With You’.

She is currently on a U.S./Canada tour, where she will be performing all her original songs from her album, ‘Stairwells’.