In talking about his music, singer-songwriter Justin Hines says, “Honestly, I don’t remember wanting to do anything else, period.” That sense of it being something as essential as breathing emanates from every song he sings.

Justin absorbed his musical gifts from his guitar playing Dad, singer Mother, the encouragement of his Grandmother Margaret, who he says “…always had this thing that I was going to be a singer; she had me singing in church and for relatives, so any stage fright left me early.”, and the family jukebox which is still in his basement and it still inspires Hines with classic recordings by artists including James Taylor, Willie Nelson, Cat Stevens, Jim Croce and Harry Chapin.

From a very early age, his creative mind was emanating poetry about universal love, the soul and other such global topics. His charitable works are so numerous it’s hard to even begin to list his performances at fundraising events that began at the age of 10. His love and concern for humanity, not just the disadvantaged gradually became his focus of attention. To learn more about his fundraising endeavours please visit www.JustinHines.org.

Over the past several years, he feels he came into his own as a songwriter –“I’ve done a lot of living, learning and growing in that time,” Justin says. “I made a conscious effort to abandon any trends, I just wanted to do something that was very honest. I wanted to just be Justin, whatever that was.” It was, and is, a classic sounding confessional that reaches out to listeners with songs drawn from life, both highs and lows, that resonate with the bond of shared experience by virtue of his gentle but powerful truth telling.