Daniel Victor

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Daniel Victor (born September 20, 1979 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian musician who is most famous for his work in the collaboration of Neverending White Lights. His father was born in Italy, and his mother in Argentina. Victor's involvement with music began at a very early age. He studied the piano under the direction of strict nuns at the local conservatory. He later picked up drums, guitar, bass, and vocals. In high school he performed in the concert orchestra as 1st chair percussionist, sang bass in the choir, played drums and conducted the jazz band. He also performed in the pit orchestra for numerous local musicals during a 10 year period.

In his teens, he worked in his home studio alongside his father, Jack Genaro, producing and recording local artists, and developing his talent that would later serve as the background for his upcoming releases. After graduating University of Windsor with a BA in World Views and Communications, he went directly to work on making his first record entitled, Neverending White Lights - Act I: Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies. His first collaboration for this album was a song called On Fire, which he wrote alongside Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman. The song made it onto Switchfoot's Columbia debut album The Beautiful Letdown, which was their most popular release to date.

It was during this time that Daniel continued work on the album, which would feature the likes of many different vocalists. He pulled together the lead men from bands such as: 311, Ours, Hum, Finger Eleven, Shudder to Think, The Velvet Teen, Our Lady Peace, Age of Electric, The Watchmen, The Black Maria, Creeper Lagoon, Starflyer 59, and many others. Victor wrote nearly all the music, produced, and performed all the instrumentation himself. His originality, creativity, production ideas and strong songwriting solidified the deal for his fellow collaborators.

However, it was a very trying album for him to make, and he struggled with physical illness, insomnia and involuntary trembling during its 5 year development, eventually losing nearly 60 lbs due to stress. Once completed, it took nearly 2 more years for Victor to find a way to release it. On September 27th, 2005 the album came out via his own record company, Ocean Records Canada. His first single, "The Grace," which featured Canadian singer Dallas Green, went straight up the charts. The music video eventually hit #1 on Much Music and modern rock radio, and a tour soon followed. Victor is currently working on Act 2 and his solo album, alongside producing records for artists such as Dallas Green, Daniel Greaves and Marco DiFelice, to name a few. He also performs keyboard on the upcoming Ours album which was produced by Rick Rubin. Involved in many other new and interesting projects Victor has a lot to offer in the upcoming years and plans to see to all his ambitious visions.

Daniel Victor can be seen in "The Grace", featuring Dallas Green, as the man who helped the fallen angel (played by Emm Gryner) back up to heaven, in "Angels and Saints", featuring Chris Gordon, as the same man who wanders around an old house in search of the angel who has now gone missing, and in the final video of the Trilogy "Age of Consent", featuring Nick Hexium, where the man dies to find his Angel.