Writing about Pat Hunt, Randy Miller and Joe Gavito, the three Texans and WORLD5 members from "The Other Side Of The Ocean", certainly involves a part of the american music scene.
Joe Gavito - guitars
Well known names like reggae legend Johnny Nash,Mickey Gilley of Urban Cowboy fame, the Grammy winning double platinum, international groupLa Mafia,Jennifer Holliday,songwriter legend Burt Bacharach, Ezra Charles,The Platters, Marc Anthony and many many more pop up ,while reading their respective biographies.
Randy Miller - bass, production
Performing live, recording, songwriting and producing for more than 30 years makes each of them experienced , professional musicians. The influences and the experienced skills of each of the WORLD5 musicians create a blend of pop- rock music inspired literally from around the world!
Pat Hunt - lead vocals , keyboards
Follow the journey Come on board and listen to the globally-inspired music of WORLD5! Read bios, lyrics, news, info, as well as the WORLD5 story.
And of course, listen to the music. It's all about the music.
Let us introduce the former german and now swedish and new zealand citizens:
1982: Founding Members Raimund Breitfeld on drumsand Steffen Goeres on guitars
Raimund Breitfeld , Steffen Goeres
"At that time the electric shavers haven´t been invented yet, the guitars were quite big and a part of the drums missed the shape they nowadays have."
Raimund Breitfeld - drums, percussion WORLD5
During his high school days Raimund and his good friend Steffen Goeres performed together in several Rock and Pop bands. Steffen's skills on the guitar was so advanced that he was already doing solo concerts as a teenager. Steffen was so dedicated that he literally slept with his guitar. Raimund couldn´t keep up with Steffen on guitar and since there were very few drummers in their small town and their skills were moderate Raimund found his calling behind the drums. Drum lessons, music academy and the college of music followed and he ended up with a degree as a drummer and music teacher.
Playing regularly, Steffen also inspires hundreds of students through his teaching at secondary schools. In 2000, Steffen released his solo CD - “A Dozen One Afternoon” - an album of 12 original compositions played on the nylon string guitar. Steffen’s professionalism and musical talents are indisputable, combining harmonic sounds, catchy melodies and smooth grooves. With his skills and experience delivering a quality listening experience to many musical genres, a call from his friend Raimund, to invite him to play for WORLD5, reintroduced him to pop music.
Both Steffen and Raimund were originally from the small town of Deggendorf, located in Bavaria, Germany. Live and personal project have put them in different locations. Steffen is now living in Wellington, New Zealand and Raimund in Gothenburgh, Sweden.
2011: The Single "You and I" was the first WORLD5 release together with former members Don Bruner, Roland Childs and Stephen Goessl.
In case you don't know our story, we are old friends and band mates who, like a lot of people (probably you as well) have reunited through the internet.
We all live in different locations around the world. Randy (Austin,TX), Pat (Katy, TX), Joe (Houston,TX), Steffen (Wellington ,New Zealand), Raimund (Gothenburgh, Sweden). So you see it really is a long drive to rehearsals!
It's kind of an interesting process (musicians will enjoy this part).
The creative process for us is very different than from other bands. Our songs have evolved with less influence from each other and more from each member's individual creativity. This makes for some great and unexpected musical ideas. Of course you can only do this with musicians that you trust and when you know each other. That's one of the best parts of being a part of this band. We are all pals and understand each other musically. That is the sense of togetherness that I was talking about. It just turned out that the right people for this band didn't all live in the same neighborhood or even on the same continents.
If we did get together to rehearse my suggestion would be Hawaii. Just a thought!
More important than how we record the music is WHY?
The real reason that the first album "Global Experience" and the latest two singles "Man of Action" and "Maybe there´s A Way" exist is because we have been close friends for a long time and somehow we all had the same dream which was to share our music with each other and more importantly with the YOU, the listener. That is what makes all of this worthwhile!
We are going down a musical road that we always wanted to travel and here's to hoping that you will travel along with us!
