Building something from nothing is a theme in my life since before I could get a driver's license! I opened a music lessons teaching studio when I was 15 years old and hustled my bands' CDs through high school and college. After college, I built a record label with my co-founders in Chapel Hill, NC which led to a record deal with celebrated British label Fat Cat (home to Sigur Ros, Animal Collective and many others). My 2+ decades in the music industry have taken me all over the US, Canada and Europe and provided a deep dive into business, publishing, PR, art direction, booking, producing, tour managing and content management. I'm a detail-oriented and prolific creator, having released 10 solo albums and collaborated on many, many more. After I got married and had my son, my wife and I built the premier Naturopathic Fertility Practice in Texas; the last 8 years running Holistic Wellness, LLC have only deepened my commitment to authenticity, exploration, problem solving, collaboration and meaningful work in service of others.
Simply put, I love to work with others to build great things.
Accomplishments
- Initiated, developed, and launched an online platform that supports naturopathic practices following in-depth research.
- Incorporated e-commerce and systemized scheduling as additional features.
- Achieved desired results through supervision of strategic planning, goal-setting, and design of brands and managed a team of cross-functional staff.
- Notably increased satisfaction and retention levels by simplifying end-user navigation.
- Thrived under pressure and delivered industry-quality products within given deadlines; led successful launches.
- Remained updated on consistently evolving business and designed practices to sustain a competitive edge.
- Guest Lecturer, Music Compostion, Southern Methodist University.
- Widely reviewed by the top global music press, including NY Times, NPR, BBC, Independent, and SF Weekly
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Skill Sets
- Brand Design & Identity
- Music Compostion
- Audio Production
- Video Direction & Editing
- Art Direction
- Project Management
- Cultural Awareness
- Strategic Thinking
- Problem Solving
- People Skills
- Team Hiring and Management
- Radical Collaboration
Holistic Wellness
Designed and continually refined high-quality user experiences in the company’s services and products in both digital and physical space. CoFounded in 2011. Profitable every quarter since.
#brand identity #content strategy #copywriting
DKD Discography
My 10(!) full length solo albums - positively reviewed by NPR, BBC, NY Times, LA Weekly, SF Weekly
#creativedirection #songwriting #producing #design #art direction #video direction #radical collaboration
FaceJam
Designed and launched a virtual music player that incorporated the use of A.I. to match songs with listeners’ mood.
#js #firebase #Face++ #API
“With discreet orchestration worthy of Van Dyke Parks and poignant, quavering vocalizing, D.K. Daniels’ fourth release, Sharp Teeth, is a collection of musical dramas rife with ambiguity, wry understatement, and majesty.”
~Mark Keresman, SF Weekly