Daily Discovery: Ryan Beaver, “How About You”

ARTIST: Ryan Beaver

SONG: “How About You”

BIRTHDATE: March 17 (St. Patrick’s Day)

BIRTHPLACE: Emory, TX

AMBITIONS: To continue doing what I love for a living.

TURN-OFFS: People who are fake.

TURN-ONS: A sense of humor.

DREAM GIG: Playing Thanksgiving Day at the Cowboys Stadium. I’m a big fan despite our current record. What can I say?

MOVIES I’VE SEEN MORE THAN ONCE: Shawshank Redemption

CELEBRITY CRUSH: Marisa Miller

WHAT MAKES A WOMAN SEXY: I think her smile and the way she carries herself says it all. I like women with confidence.

5 THINGS EVERY MAN SHOULD OWN: 1) Leatherman 2) Good pair of boots 3) Passport 4) Hand gun 5) A grill.

WORDS TO LIVE BY: “There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I WROTE THIS SONG: with my good friend Ben Danaher about not wanting to be lonely and saying exactly just that.

Ryan Beaver is the most recent songwriter to sign an exclusive publishing deal with HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc.

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