About Joshua Cross
Bio
Joshua got interested in music at the age of 9 years old when he heard his uncle playing AMAZING GRACE on the accordion at his father's funeral. He was so inspired and overwhelmed with sad emotions that he began to put his feelings on paper.
After his father's passing he experienced a difficult life in an orphanage in St.Johns NL. Using the music to forget all the sorrows around him, He had found something to throw himself into.
At the age of 13 he started his first band called NARROW EXPRESS. The band played mostly cover songs except for the one song he had written. They lasted about 3 years and then went their separate ways. Joshua felt it was for the best, so he then picked up guitar, piano and started working on his solo act, he played a few different gigs including playing live on C.B.C TV. Doors were opened in many ways for him and felt happy that for the first time people were hearing his music.
At the age of 19 Just getting out from the orphanage moved to Ontario he and a few friends got together and tried to make it in the music business. Things became hard for them being far from home with not much money they would play on the streets of Toronto for there next meal.(playing for their supper) . Feeling very much alone and that things were not working out they all headed back to Newfoundland.
In the summer of 1993 the band reconnected, they were going to give it another try but it was short lived and some of the guys headed back to Newfoundland but this time Joshua stayed and kept on pushing to get somewhere.
Joshua has had a lot of up’s and down’s but here he is today seeing his Solo act go in all the right directions.
Today you can hear his songs by down loading them from www.Indie911.com/joshua-cross or www.joshuacross.org
BOOKING INFORMATION
Manager:
Josephine Murphy 416-223-4116 0r
A-baseproductions@joshuacross.org
Production
Producers:
2003 Derek Lavendusky And Keith Murphy for the Hold On/Lamplight project www.lamplight.org
Producers:
Late 2004 Roldan Castillo And Keith Murphy for the Lifted Higher Project.
Producer:
2005 Keith Murphy for the Singles project
Live Production:
2007 Joshua Cross opened for Sarah Kelly @ The Shelter Them Event www.shelterthem.com
Producer:
2008 Mark Zubek for The Black Tree project
In 2008 Joshua Cross will becoming out with a New cd The Black Tree.
Mark will be coming on board to lend his great producing skills and much more, keep your eyes wide open .
For more info on mark go to. www.markzubek.com
Musicians who helped out with the Lifted Higher project: Roldan Castillo Additional Guitar, Ernie Murphy additional drums and Ron Abogadie additional guitar together with vocalist Lisa Murphy they are known as ONE PART HUMAN www.oneparthuman.com
95one.com
Independent Christian Music
Featured Band
Joshua Cross, 95one's featured Artist for the month of April 2007.
Official site www.95one.com
Promotional Gear
FRONT Price $15.00
FRONT Price $25.00 BACK
Joshua Cross Myspace page Joshua Cross Official site |
Joshua Cross's Blog
Joshua Cross, worked on this project with Primitive Faith now know as One Part Human,
PLACES TO FIND JOSHUA CROSS
http://www.myspace.com/higiro
http://www.isound.com/joshua_c
http://www.joshuacross.org
http://www.musolist.com/joshuacross
Joshua passion for helping troubled teens, have lent his time and talent to an organization called Lamplight. www.lamplight.org .
Lamplight acts as a help line for youth dealing with the many issues that plague them.
Joshua just finishing a number of charity events, past performances include shows at a variety of establishments though out Hamilton and the GTA, and showcases at Club Rockit and Toronto’s own Opera house.
At the present time Joshua is self managed and is seeking label representation. To reach Joshua you can email him @ ,
A- baseproductions@joshuacross.org
Wanted
Your classified ad: Searching for a band Joshua Cross looking for a band to play his music and do some touring in some parts of Canada and maybe the states. Age: 25 to 32 place: Toronto or Closes to it. Type of Music:Christian Rock. Contact Info: email hope-alive@sympatico.ca Phone 4162234116 Posted by joshuacross
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Offering
Joshua cross and wife are embarking on program called Hope-Alive. After visiting Rwanda and seeing Teens and children homeless without parents, They both felt they should do something about this and so they are starting a fund Called HOPE-ALIVE , for more information email joshuacross@rogers.com, also HOPE-ALIVE will soon have there web site up and running www.hope-alive.com .
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