Chris St. John

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Chris St John has been on a roll this past year, especially these last few months. He has had several international hit singles, including “I Called You Rose”, “I’d Send You My Heart” and “A Box For Jewels” All songs dominated the Euro and World Indie Music Charts, rising to No. 3 and 8 respectively. St John’s latest track, the extremely infections “Hey Siri”, perfectly captures the current state of our techno-crazy modern world. The song humorously yet pointedly song addresses both our addiction to, and frustration with, Siri, Alexa, Facebook, Amazon, texts, emails and cell phones, while lamenting the loss of simpler times before the cell phone/social media age. Over a lighthearted, playfully rolling, whistle-infused African/Carribean styled groove reminiscent of Paul Simon’s classic Graceland vibe, the fast emerging multi-faceted Americana, folk, soft rock and country influenced artist shares insightful lyrics we can all relate to – and will be singing by the second chorus: “Siri’s unavailable, Alexa won’t stop talking, texts and emails coming, our children text for talking/I can’t remember my passwords/Days run like a river/My phone is like an organ./You’ll kill me if you take it away.” Produced by industry legend Stephen Wrench, who has worked with everyone from Lynyrd Skynyrd and Tom Petty to Bob Seger, Bonnie Raitt and Ozzy Osbourne, the buoyant track was recorded at Omni Studios in Nashville with some of Music City’s most renowned session musicians. Wrench, also a powerhouse radio promoter whose company Musik Radio Promotions caters to a network of over 250,000 stations in 180 countries, worked with St. John’s earlier singles – and was so impressed by his latest batch of songs that he signed as his producer for the current project. “Hey Siri,” a compelling video for which is in late production is the first lead single from St. John’s mostly finished album in progress Fly Away, planned for release in early 2022. Fly Away is the follow-up to the singer’s debut collection I’m Dreaming, which dropped earlier in 2021 and was showered with more than 30 worldwide rave reviews. “Hey Siri’ is a song I wrote in less than a half an hour, early one morning at my office,” says the Long Island based St. John. He began writing songs at age seven but set his musical dreams aside for years as he pursued a successful career (a prosecutor, judge and an attorney and owner of a large law practice). “I heard an upbeat melody in my head and added lyrics about the