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Music Spotlight Satellites and Sirens: Coming In Loud and Clear By Lisa Carter If there is one group taking the Christian pop and rock music sectors by storm, while blazing trails in the social media circuit, it’s Satellites and Sirens. Satellites and Sirens hails from Nashville, Tennessee, also known as “the music city,” and already has quite the impressive following. The group consists of Geoff Hunker - lead vocalist and founder, David Troyer - guitarist, David Willey - on bass and sythesizer, and Jonathan Dimmel (formerly their drummer). The group’s synth and electronic sounds coupled with a positive message of hope energize and uplift the spirit. Satellites and Sirens have a sound all their own and the music world is paying attention. They have been riding the radio air waves all across the nation and were featured on MTV’s “Needle in the Haystack” spotlight. They were also nominated for two Dove Awards in 2011. Their albums include “Satellites and Sirens” (debut) released in March 2010, “Frequency” in 2011, “The Covers” in August 2012, and “One Noise” released in March 2014, which features their hit single “Jump Start My Heart.” Just by watching the music video “Feel Alive” you feel the passion and contagious energy in the great music the band makes.
Faith Filled Family asked the group’s founder and lead singer, Geoff Hunker to tell us more about the band and their musical journey. First of all, tell us how the band came to be. How were you discovered? Well, I moved to Nashville from Oregon about 10 years ago and connected with a producer named Rusty Varenkamp. Him and I wrote a few songs together and recorded them and were really happy with how they came out. He then started pitching them to some labels to see if they liked them and ended up getting an offer from Word Records. When the offer came in I went to Craigslist looking for band members, Nashville had a ton of amazing musicians and I met Jonathan, our old drummer and one of my best friends. He knew all the other guys in the band and over the years we had a few guys come in and out but landed the way the band is currently. Did you start off as a solo vocalist? What led you to seek out other members in order to form a band? I never really saw myself as a vocalist so that is why I went searching for a band, I felt more comfortable that way and loved sharing the whole experience with guys who felt ownership over what we were doing rather than just hired people to play parts. Craigslist just seemed like a great idea at the time for fi nding members. I’m glad I tried it! would say that Michael W. Smith was probably my biggest infl uence growing up. I always sang his songs at church as special music and just saw him as a great role model and family man. When I got to high school my musical taste started changing and I found a band called Toad the Wet Sprocket, they were an acoustic driven rock band and my eyes were open to something new in the style and storytelling of the lyrics. After high school I found a band that to this day is still my favorite, Jimmy Eat World. I feel like this band can really be seen as infl uential in my music today. Tons of other bands too like Switchfoot, DC Talk, and PFR and not to mention any band from the 80’s would make this list as infl uential too but those main three helped develop my style. How did the band get the name Satellites and Sirens? Satellites are something that send information out and sirens are something that get people’s attention, and that is how we see ourselves as Christians. We have a message to say and need to get people’s attention and say it. What are you hoping this group accomplishes with its music? Who are you hoping to reach? We love music and our goal is to continue to make it. We love that it is connecting with people and we pray that it points people to God. Not everything we write is directed just to people who know who Christ is, but we write songs that hopefully will bring up questions and bring hope to those who are hopeless. We hope that through our music people can worship and fi nd more than just a catchy tune. We hope to meet as many people as we can. What kinds of songs spoke to you most growing up? Which artists inspired you? I had a few different bands more than songs that spoke to me growing up at different times. I
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