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Interscope Records’ young, self-taught, alt-pop musician Saint Mesa has teamed up with Huffington Post to premiere the “empowering” new single “Lion” – PRESS HERE to listen.
Early in life, frontman Danny McCook spent nearly two years in and out of hospitals, fighting a rare disease that confounded doctors.During this complicated period, McCook used his down time to teach himself music, eventually writing songs to help him cope with this period of struggle. One his sickness unexpectedly cleared up, McCook returned to the feelings he had encountered, channeling them to create his beautiful and spiritual debut EP Jungle. “Lion” comes as an new chapter following the EP, continuing the McCook’s impeccable ability to connection his emotions to the music that reflects the fight he endure during that period of time.“The song is about overcoming your demons, embracing them and taking control of them” McCook shared with Huffington Post. “Using your weaknesses as strengths, taming your lions.”“Lion,” which was featured on Spotify’s New Music Friday, and hit #39 on the Spotify US Viral Charts follows the path Saint Mesa blazed with “Jungle,” which garnered over1+ million streams on Spotify and landed TOP 10 on Spotify’s Viral Chart and TOP 10 on Hype Machine’s Popular Chart.Saint Mesa will take that momentum on the road in September, when they join courtship. on their six-stop West Coast co-headline tour.Making waves early on within his career with licensing syncs with such brands as Wayfair, Puma, H+M, and Electronic Arts, Saint Mesa will push his fashion-forward mentality by bringing a series of personally crafted, one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces on the road to be sold at his merch table. Examples of those pieces can be seen below.PRESS HERE to purchase and/or stream “Lion.”
2017 FALL TOUR DATES:September 12 – Berkeley, CA – Cornerstone BerkeleySeptember 14 – Portland, OR – Lola’s RoomSeptember 16 – Seattle, WA – Timbre RoomSeptember 18 – Santa Cruz, CA – The CatalystSeptember 19 – San Luis Obispo, CA – SLO BrewSeptember 20 – Los Angeles, LA – Bootleg Theatre
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