Sean Kagalis

Folk • Cordele, 31015, US

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About the Artist

At age 4, Sean would stand on the concrete slab patio which stood three feet above his back yard and play air guitar on a plastic baseball bat while pretending the rustling autumn leaves in the amber afternoon light were actually audience members. In 1990, Sean performed for an actual audience in a Daytona Beach biker bar at 13. Soon after, Sean would become a fixture in the coffeehouses and cafes of his hometown of DeLand, Florida. While in high-school and college, Sean assembled numerous musical outfits representing styles ranging from folk to punk to alternative rock. At 21, he set his sights on the Atlanta music scene and began playing in local venues. He’d weave in his original songs into the sets of cover tunes to which listeners would often inquire who the original artist was. Some of Sean’s most memorable performances were held in the lobby of the Ramada Inn in New Orleans in an effort to lift the spirits of the 30 people he was stranded with for 6 days in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the 1999 International Conference for Non-Violence at the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia, various Bearapalooza events, River City (Jacksonville) Pride Festival as well as Second Life Jams in the U.S. and Canada. After years of performing four and five nights a week in and around Atlanta, Sean went on to rank in the Atlanta Southern Voice Best of Readers Poll for ‘Male Musician’ in 2005 (2nd), 2007 (1st) and 2008 (3rd). Connect, a full concert live album, was released in January, 2008. Later that year, the seasoned songwriter entered the virtual world of the internet commerce game Second Life under the guise of his avatar Strum Diesel. 2009 saw the release of his album Lucky, as well as a tireless schedule of his energetic live internet shows which helped him amass a devoted following that spans the globe. Although this new ‘virtual’ career had kept him busy at home for a few years, Sean still performs in the real world despite wacky rumors to the contrary. Sean won a GIMA (Georgia Indie Music Award) in 2010 for his production work on Cell Fehrenbach’s On My Way to Love. In 2012, he put those homegrown skills to work and produced 2013's Working Parts, an album that features a music video for the audience favorite "At Any Rate" directed and produced by TC Productions. After the release of Working Parts, Sean shifted from the virtual stage back to the actual one performing up and down the east coast. Later that year he recorded an EP at Ardent Studios (Memphis, TN), Let It Go produced by Fetzer Mills. In November 2014, Sean performed at The Annual Big Pig Jig in Vienna, GA. In 2015, Sean joined the monthly contest/platform ArtistSignal placing in the top ten for several months which gave his reach an extra boost internationally. That year also saw a very prolific period as he released the Funnel Cake and Lemonade EP, an eponymous live album and the single "Plushy Pup." That burst was followed by the 10-song album, Transparent, which was written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Sean alone within a two-week period in February 2016. In the pursuit of colder weather, Sean spent a three-year stint in Detroit, Michigan writing, recording, performing and producing 2017's Passive Aggressive as well as the albums Blues To Gray (2018) and Just Throw Your Thoughts In My Jar (2019) for Detroit songwriter Roger Ponder. In 2020 during the height of the shutdown, Sean was hired to remotely produce three more albums for Ponder. In 2024, Sean released the album, Motion, recorded periodically between May 2022 and Dec 2023. At the dawn of 2025, Sean rerecorded the eight songs which originally appeared on his first demo, Where Do I Begin?, acknowledging its 25th anniversary. Thank you for reading. Thank you for listening!

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