This is the kind of song you play before opening your laptop — not after you’ve locked yourself out of it again, male vocals

Keep It Simple, Stupid!

I’m a songwriter built from love, bruises, and a will that refuses to lay down. My life has had its fair share of wrong turns, heartbreaks, and hard lessons, but every one of them shaped the way I write. I don’t come from perfection — I come from the kind of truth you earn. The kind you bleed for. The kind you grow from.

Music has always been my compass. When I lost myself, it reminded me who I was. When the world got loud, it gave me a place to breathe. Now I write songs for people like me — people who love big, fall hard, get back up slower than they’d like, but still find the courage to try again.

My sound is built on heart first, grit second. It’s for the fighters, the forgivers, the ones rebuilding their lives one right choice at a time. If you’ve ever carried regret in one hand and hope in the other, you’ll hear your own story somewhere in mine.

I don’t make music to be perfect.
I make music to stay human — and to help others do the same.

Keep It Simple, Stupid!

Michael A. Crane