Louder Than The Music

Gabriel Wilson, formerly of the bands Rock & Roll Worship Circus and The Listening, is to release an independent solo album titled 'The McGuire Side' on 18th September 2012. The producer, songwriter, touring artist and worship leader sold out clubs, headlined European festivals and toured with Delirious with his previous bands, even becoming a staff worship pastor at a 3,000 member church in Folsom, California.

The songs found on Gabriel's new project come from a painful, confusing yet ultimately redemptive time in his personal life. "As these songs started to come together, I knew this was going to be a completely different, and somewhat unnerving, project for me", he explains.

Wilson was born Gabriel Solomon McGuire to young parents who divorced when he was just a toddler. As a young adult he found out that through his biological father, Wilson was kin to some of the most influential and celebrated artists and songwriters in Gospel music history. His grandfather was a traveling minister, singer and songwriter who has had several Southern Gospel groups cover his songs, and Wilson's Uncle Donny and his wife Reba, along with Reba's parents Buck and Dottie Rambo, were Grammy Award winning Southern Gospel legends. "Here I was, this rock and roll kid up in Oregon with no idea at all where all of this music in me had come from," he explains.

Wilson crafted 'The McGuire Side' with all of his feelings of missed opportunities and abandonment, of hope and belonging into his own family tree. "I started to see this story emerging," he adds. "It was like a tapestry, with pieces from me, my dad and my grandfather. It was all about redemption, reconciliation, and embracing a lost family heritage."