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April 21, 2008 - Travis Shawn Hill wanted to prove you don't need a major record label to put out an album... or a band, for that matter. Using a home computer and a couple of microphones, the singer-songwriter from Santa Cruz, Calif. wrote and recorded more than a dozen songs in February and posted them online for this year's RPM Challenge. The album he came up with is called A Bright Wind, featuring the infectiously upbeat song "Sing."

"The song 'Sing' was written and recorded in an afternoon, in order to cheer myself up," says Hill. "Its message is a simple one: that happiness comes from within, which is a message that resonates throughout the album, A Bright Wind."

Hill has been playing music since he was five. After forming and playing with a number of bands in high school and college, he decided to go solo. He says A Brigh Wind is "devoted to the idea that each life is defined solely by the person living it, and that to experience life to the fullest, it is necessary to pursue one's dream, whether that dream be constant throughout one's life, or constantly changing."