SymphonicAngel is an Australian artist and songwriter whose relationship with music began long before he ever considered releasing it professionally.
He first started singing at twelve years old, near the end of primary/elementary school, performing Let the River Run and Father and Son with his class in front of parents. Singing stayed with him from that point on, and before long he began writing songs of his own.
Two artists became especially important to him: Céline Dion and Whitney Houston.
Céline Dion taught him how a song can build, escalate and become something larger than life. Just as importantly, she showed him the value of remaining human regardless of success... treating fans with respect, being honest in public, and continuing forward through adversity.
Whitney Houston taught him something different. Beyond the extraordinary voice, she showed him that fame does not protect anyone from pain, that the media can be cruel, and that even the greatest people can fall. Her death in 2012 affected him deeply and changed the way he listened to music for a long time.
That period drew him more strongly toward Nightwish, a band he had already discovered through his sister and later through his close friend Chris. Their combination of orchestration, guitars, choirs, darkness and fantasy offered something completely different and helped open another musical world to him.
Whitney Houston and Céline Dion remain his greatest musical idols today, with Nightwish becoming another major influence.
Around the same period, another important influence emerged through Japan.
After living through a major flood in Australia, SymphonicAngel watched the devastation caused by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan only a short time later. He had discovered AKB48 just weeks before, and seeing members of the group later visit Fukushima left a lasting impression on him.
What began as curiosity became a genuine appreciation for their music, and over time grew into a deep affection for Japanese people, culture, music and the country itself. Their bright, energetic sound also introduced him to a kind of happiness in music that felt completely different from much of what he had listened to before.
His own listening habits remain intentionally broad.
He can move from music of the 1960s and 70s to modern dance tracks, from vocal ballads to Japanese pop, from gothic and symphonic metal to movie and video game soundtracks.
Genre has never been the most important thing.
What matters is the story a song tells and the way it makes the listener feel.
That philosophy eventually became central to SymphonicAngel.
As his own voice changed over the years, technology gave him another way to continue creating music and to realise songs closer to the way he heard them in his head. Today, he uses AI as a creative production tool, but the songs still begin with him.
He writes them, shapes their direction and scrutinises the result until it matches the vision he has for it.
Sometimes that process takes days.
The melody is often the hardest part. Sometimes the singing is wrong, sometimes the arrangement is not big enough, sometimes a choir sounds too artificial, sometimes a song is too long, too short, or simply refuses to become what he imagined.
He keeps working until it feels right.
He almost never releases a song that he personally wouldn’t listen to.
For SymphonicAngel, the technology is only a tool. The goal remains emotional connection. If a song makes someone feel happiness, sadness, energy, love, nostalgia or even simply recognition, then it has achieved something worthwhile.
That same interest in emotion and storytelling eventually expanded beyond music.
The Night Angels Cried began with two friends deciding to write a fantasy story together. Chris has been one of SymphonicAngel’s closest friends for eighteen years, and while SymphonicAngel wrote the story, Chris contributed ideas as it developed. Over time, fictional versions of the two of them became part of the world, new characters emerged, and their real friendship became part of the story’s emotional core.
What began as a simple idea grew into a fantasy adventure built around friendship, tragedy, humour, battles, music and character driven storytelling. After finishing the first story, SymphonicAngel did not want the world to end, so he continued it. The Night Angels Cried is now becoming an annual creative universe that connects his love of music and storytelling.
Outside music, SymphonicAngel is a lifelong gamer and an unapologetic Sony loyalist.
Among the games that shaped him, Final Fantasy holds a particularly important place. Its music deepened his love of orchestral and cinematic sound, but its influence goes far beyond the soundtrack. The series reinforced his belief that music, character, emotion and story can work together until a fictional world begins to feel meaningful.
That influence can be heard in the way he approaches both songs and stories. A piece of music can represent a character, carry a memory, mark a tragedy, build a world or make a moment feel larger than life.
And then there is the name.
SymphonicAngel has been with him since the PlayStation 3 era. Long before it became an artist name, it was simply a name people associated with him. When he began releasing music publicly, using anything else would have felt unnatural.
Today, SymphonicAngel feels less like a username and more like a legacy.
The technology may change. The genres may change. The voices may change.
The reason behind the music has not.
He still wants a song to make somebody feel something.
