Steven Sware: “Fired Up” (Electro Pop)
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Edmonton recording artist Steven Sware has been making waves on the music scene since a teenager in a variety of solo and band endeavors, however, the talented creative, only in his early-20’s now has crafted a dynamic sound which has culminated in a flourishing recording career, sparked by a recent release fittingly titled “Fired Up”. Steven describes “Fired Up” as “a calling to all fiery relationships that may not be the best on paper but are an undeniable desire”. The song is an incredibly vibrant track that is quintessential pop with an undeniable danceability and chorus that sticks in your mind long after listening.
“Fired Up” is available on all streaming platforms (Spotify link below). Stream it! playlist it! and save it to your Favorites Library! Also, scroll below to find out more about the music journey and burgeoning career of Steven Sware.
About Steven Sware
With a talent for songcraft, a versatility as a vocalist and composer and a natural, easy charm as a performer, Edmonton’s Steven Sware is poised to become a recording artist and pop music stylist of note in the very near future.
Although only in his early 20s, Sware is a veteran of nearly a decade on the local music scene, beginning at age 15, grinding his way through various bands and solo incarnations, with this crucible setting the foundation for the artist his has now become.
Sware is set to release his latest single, Back to You, the buzz for which has already begun to set the social media-verse alight in the modern incarnation of ‘industry buzz.’
The acclaim that is coming from this material, the first of a series of exceptional new songs to be released by Sware throughout the remainder of 2021, builds upon a reputation for excellence that he has worked steadfastly to cultivate, and one which is now beginning to pay dividends since those teenaged years. Earlier releases and videos, as well as his unflagging concert schedule, have made him a household name in his home city – a notoriety that is spreading like prairie wildfire throughout western Canada.
From his teen years, Sware realized he had a gift for crafting his own songs, and an ear for recognizing compelling, popular sounds. Coupled with training, practice, and discipline, he has harnessed one of the most difficult of skills as a creator – the ability to write material almost on command. Yes, personal inspiration often generates great musical art for him, but his innate ability to compose memorable melodies, to build authentic emotionality and narrative beyond his own life, his own experiences and his own feelings sets him apart.
This is proved by his popularity as someone who writes special songs for special occasions or for special people. He has become an in-demand composer of songs specifically for weddings or engagements or other significant life moments. Sware has the unerring ability to translate into song ideas, thoughts, and sentiments from others, with the same emotive magnetism and significance as the songs he crafts about the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful in his own life.
“I do use my own experiences and life as inspiration for songs, but I am not really looking at the songwriting process as a cathartic experience. I love to write. I love to be inspired by lots of things and I feel that I can write about almost anything. The goal is still to move people, and it doesn’t matter to me if it’s making someone happy or sad from my own life experiences or by telling someone else’s story,” he said, humbly downplaying what truly is the craft and professional element of being a songwriter.
Sware’s ability to convey genuine emotion through his original songs, be they autobiographical or not, carries over into the way he takes cover songs and makes them his own. Even through subtle tweaks to arrangements, he has built a significant following throughout Alberta and beyond for his live performances, including more than 125 ‘Driveway’ concerts he performed from the onset of the global pandemic.
His stature as an artist on the rise has been confirmed by a host of significant accolades, including a number of awards from Edmonton’s top radio station Hot 107, including their Hot Factor competition and Storyhive music video competition. In 2019 he was named Hot 107’s Local Artist of 2019 and spent much of that year as part of the prestigious Coalition Music ‘Incubator,’ learning the business side of the music industry as well as building connections and partnerships with top producers, songwriters and other artists.
Back to You is in many ways a traditional love song, written by Sware for the love of his life, Morgan, a talented professional photographer. Working in collaboration with friend and fellow singer/songwriter Adam Ambrose, Sware has created a song that treads the fine line between the youthful joy of young love, with a more mature outlook that is enveloped within the understated, yet immaculate production.
He has described Back to You as both a culmination of the evolutionary process of his sound as a writer and vocalist, but also as the opening chapter of what is to come. From age 15, he dipped and dived into many different genres, always on the looking for something would be popular without being contrived. He arrived on a sound that owes as much to the more stripped-down songs of Ed Sheeran than many of the more multi-layered and enhanced tracks that co-exist with Sheeran and even fellow Canadian Shawn Mendes on the pop charts.
“I want it to sound good – I want it to sound contemporary and have a few of the modern bells and whistles in there, but for the most part I also like to keep my voice as natural sounding as possible. I want the vocals to sound like I am right in front of you onstage. It took me a while, but I think I am finally where I belong as a songwriter,” he said.
Back to You is the opening salvo of a provocative creative outpouring that will continue to dazzle and delight listeners who appreciate not only memorable pop melodies, but exceptionally well-written songs that have depth, meaning, and which are performed with that rarest of creative gifts – authenticity.
For Sware, it is the start of something special, and something that will be as rewarding and fulfilling for him, as it is for all who get to hear his music.
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