Greg Holden, Musician

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to try to write songs. I was pleasantly surprised when I found out The Hawaii Songwriting Festival was held on my island every year. I have gone 3 times and am always impressed (and intimidated) by the talent there, the budding songwriters as well as the professionals who come to teach or mentor. There are 3 sessions through the weekend in which you are randomly placed in workshops. Greg Holden was the mentor in one of my workshops, and I fell in love with his music. He wrote Home which was the song that Phillip Phillips won on American Idol in 2012. But his other songs have more meat. One powerful one that he performed was Boys on the Street, which tells a powerful story about the relationship between a gay son and father. Here's a  Time article about how he got it right. His songs are full of rich, sensitive, story-ish songs. His latest (as of this writing) is called Honest. He's talking about himself, but don't we all want to be Honest? Why is this activism? If the world had more honest people, wouldn't this world be a better place.