From Deseret News archives:
Heyborne is a familiar face and voice
What many people don't realize is that "I was into music long before I started acting," said Heyborne.
He lives in Los Angeles now, where he is pursuing an acting career. But he has also released a new CD titled "Inside," songs that Heyborne has written and performs. And no, these songs are not boy-band spoofs. He calls it acoustic/alternative/pop, but there are bits of other genres mixed in blues, maybe a little folk.
If you count the tapes he made with his first band using a microphone they hung from the ceiling fan this is actually his fifth recording. "But all the others I did with full bands. This one is just me," he said by phone from his L.A. home.
There was a time when Heyborne thought music might be his career. He started taking piano lessons at age 4. At age 15, he switched to the guitar. There were two reasons for that, he said.
First, "I wanted to impress girls, so I needed something other than the piano."
Three months later, he was writing his own songs, and he and his friends started giving concerts for their friends, often in a greenhouse at the home of one friend in Draper.
Heyborne hooked up with Steve Lemmon of the local band Ali Ali Oxen Free for a "bigger and better" album, and later joined with "the coolest, long-haired, chick-magnet-artist," Marc Thorup, in a band called Shasta Daisy, which was soon playing gigs throughout the Salt Lake and Utah County areas.
Soon, he left to serve an LDS mission in the Dominican Republic, where "I wrote a few songs on ('Preparation') days." When he returned, he and Thorup and three other musicians formed a band called Bentleigh and began playing all over Utah. The band performed at various events during the 2002 Winter Games, including opening for 'N Sync at the Olympic Medals Plaza.
Comments
- Arrests made in Roy slayings 8:35 a.m.
- Bowden meeting with school officials 8:01 a.m.
- FIFA: Ireland won't be in WCup 8:00 a.m.
- Florida's Dunlap arrested, charged 8:00 a.m.
- Stocks climb early as dollar slides 7:59 a.m.
- China: Talk, not sanctions on Iran 7:49 a.m.
- China: US, NKorea talks to succeed 7:48 a.m.
- China manufacturing expanding 7:46 a.m.
- Consumers late on auto payments 7:46 a.m.
- Sheik: Dubai economy 'strong' 7:45 a.m.
- Hall's pain reflects self-betrayal
- Hall reprimanded by MWC
- Utes won't respond to Hall
- Y. student vanished in China
- Cougs begin bowl preparations
- Max Hall issues apology
- Mitchell called intelligent, controlling
- Daughter: Mitchell fed me my pet
- Matthews passes new Jazz tests
- Rivalry dishes out talking points
- Hall mouths off about hate of Utah
899 - Cougars beat Utes in overtime
481 - Hall reprimanded by MWC
384 - Max Hall issues apology
382 - Hall's pain reflects self-betrayal
316 - Utes won't respond to Hall
264 - BYU is champion of the state
140 - Man trapped in Nutty Putty cave dies
122 - Cave to be sealed with body inside
120 - Religion in politics is tiresome
113
The Wall Street Journal has reported that the holiday retail season...
When "Dancing With The Stars" began more than two months ago, 16 couples...
Comedian Brian Regan, who is scheduled to perform at Abravanel Hall on...
Why is Jamie Whittingham and her daughter on the field? In their excitement...
My parents also raised six Eagle Scouts, also their last, and seventh child...
Why does Oklahoma participate in athletics? Why is it some trivial thing...
Zoobs up past curfew make for great posts on the Des news, can't wait to read...
the greater number of hurricanes in 2005 was due to global warming. Since the...
You sound like a bunch of trolls. Sure, it's tough to see them playing...
love it! Spot on!
What is with region 2 are they that bad? how many playoff spots does that...
Well, here we are at the crossroads of college football. The final BCS...
Get a life. This is old news. A lot of things are happening in the world and...



You can be the first to comment on this story.