Alex Berger

about

“The truth. Love. Friendships & relationships I've had/ have. Nature. Other songwriters. And movies. Definitely movies.” Inspiration comes to artists in various forms, and for Alex Berger, a London native who came to New York City in 2004 to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, it is some of the simplest things in life that have moved him to create some of his most illustrious compositions. Along the journey that began with a piano lesson at age 3, grew with writing around age 14, and was abandoned briefly to purse acting when first coming to NYC, Berger experienced both the disenchantment of the record label world, the dry spell of writer’s block, the actor versus the musician, and the alternating push and pull from London to New York, before overcoming it all to produce a long-awaited album and explore the world as a captivating and heartfelt singer-songwriter and musician. During Berger’s time off from writing, he saturated his ears with voices like Tom Waits, Ani DiFranco, Randy Newman, and ambeR Rubarth, to name a few. Between admiring the talent these songwriters possessed and simultaneously being approached regarding his abandonment of music, Alex was guided to a place of accepting his life as an artist, early in 2008. He credits a quotation by Martha Graham, read at his AADA graduation, for summing up the reason he turned back to music, a quote that begins: “There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and as t