Greg Shilling has something big to celebrate. The songwriter is one of two winners for American Songwriter's Songs That Sync Promotion for his song, ⁘Gorilla Grip.⁘
⁘Gorilla Grip⁘ came to be after Shilling went through a ⁘horrible break up,⁘ which, on the upside, made for a ⁘beautiful song.⁘
⁘I felt that ⁘Gorilla Grip' was a song that could supplement a scene, but not take away from it,⁘ he said. ⁘I felt in my heart that it could have potential to be used, so I wanted to give it a shot!⁘
With his win, Shilling will receive a mentorship with top music supervisors in TV, film, and ads, which he considers a ⁘dream come true.⁘ The mentorship, Shilling believes, will help teach him ⁘how to make my songs more suitable for sync opportunities in the future.⁘
I've been actually songwriting since I was about 6 years old. I remember the first song I ever wrote was called ⁘I don't want to go to work.⁘ (I'm not sure what ⁘work⁘ I was doing straight out of kindergarten, but my boss must have been a real peach.) I always loved storytelling and listening to stories as a little kid, so songwriting was a natural extension of that.
The thing that got me into music in the first place was actually my dad. He had this huge stereo system in our family room, and he would blast music right after he got home from his job. He absolutely loved music. It was palpable. He had a piano in our family room, too, and he would just sit and play the blues on it for hours. That inspired me to want to make songs.
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