SOUTHERN BOY GOES RASTA! Award-winning California singer-songwriter SCOTT TURCHIN began this life in a small Southern town, wandered throughout the rural South and one day hopped a banana boat for Jamaica, where life turned into one great song after another. All day, all night, Marianne.

After a steady diet of radio folk (Weavers, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, Neil Young, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Cat Stevens, Leonard Cohen), bluegrass, jazz, rock (Beatles, Who, Peter Gabriel, Elvis-both of 'em, Bowie, Seal, Sting/Police) and later reggae music (Marley, Tosh, Cliff, UB40, Israel Vibration), Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter SCOTT TURCHIN left his home in New York's Queens Borough on a "mission from God" to go to California and create a unique blend of Southern roots rock and reggae music, with a feel for African and other World music, and in the process winning Top 20 in the Unisong International Song Contest for Reggae, Song of the Year Nomination for Country, and numerous awards on musician review site GarageBand.com.

With and without his SCOTT TURCHIN BAND, he has played most of the venues in the Los Angeles and San Diego areas, including opening for Harry Dean Stanton at The Mint and running a Song Circle Showcase at coffeehouses, as well as acted in television, films, voiceover and stage. RIVER CAN CRY, his most ambitious album done with a single band and production team, received heavy rotation in Australian and English Internet Radio. He is proud to have 5 albums released for digital distribution, covering his three main genre areas of REGGAE, ALT-ROCK and ALT-COUNTRY/AMERICANA. His first CD, "SCOTT TURCHIN", a cool collection of "live" studio takes, also garnered CDBABY's "Editor's Choice" in both Reggae and Roots Rock!