Trevor Hall

For 21-year-old Trevor Hall, music is a meditation, an expression of love and a means to bring people together.Hall has been writing and performing since he was 14 years old. His parents were both tennis pros, though he learned about music from his father’s drum kit, a rhythmic orientation that continues on his debut album, which is filled with the percussive beats of reggae, hip-hop and rock as filtered through the Laboriel brothers.“I have always been surrounded by and absorbed with music,” explains Hall, who continues to be inspired by such diverse artists as Bob Marley and Bob Dylan, as well as Ben Harper and Bjork. “I just started writing songs for myself. At no point did I think of doing this as a career. It’s still not like that for me. I’d be playing music even if I had a real job.”“I just tried to watch it flow through me and tried not to control it,” says the South Carolina- born singer-songwriter about the creative energy which went into writing the songs on his debut Geffen album, The Elephant’s Door. “The songs in turn become a tool, a map and a way to get to a universal place in my own personal journey.”