Peter Breinholt

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Peter Breinholt
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Peter Breinholt performing in 2019
Background information
Born (1969-03-31) March 31, 1969 (age 56)
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States
Genres Folk, rock, pop
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter, producer, performer
Instrumentsguitar, piano, drums, ukulele, banjo, bass
Years active1993–present
Website peterbreinholt.com

Peter Breinholt is a recording artist in the Salt Lake City, Utah music scene.

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Breinholt grew up in Devon, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, where his father Robert H. Breinholt taught at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. When Peter was ten years old his family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the brother of Jeffrey Breinholt. [1] He has three other siblings.

Career

While Breinholt was a student at the University of Utah, he and friends Mike Ensign and Rex Griffiths made an amateur recording of songs Breinholt had written and called it "Songs About the Great Divide". [2] It became the best-selling independently released album ever in the state of Utah up to that time almost entirely by word-of-mouth. [1] Salt Lake Magazine later described it as "an underground classic on Utah college campuses". Almost overnight, Breinholt's concerts began selling out 2,000-plus seat theaters throughout the region.

Since then Breinholt has continued to release music and perform.

During the first half of 2018, Breinholt and his family moved to the beach town Canoa in Ecuador where he wrote songs for his fifth album entitled "The Counting Of Nothing" which was released later that year.

In March 2019, Peter gave a TEDx talk in Provo, Utah, entitled "What Makes You Come Alive?". [3] [4]

Peter has taught songwriting at Snow College in Ephraim, UT.

Personal life

Peter is married to Rebecca Pulsipher Breinholt and they have four children. They currently live in Sheffield, England.

Recordings

References

  1. 1 2 "Peter Breinholt — Just plain folk". Deseret News. April 27, 2003. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Songs About the Great Divide by Peter Breinholt". iTunes . January 1993.
  3. ↑ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine : What Makes You Come Alive? | Peter Breinholt | TEDxBYU. YouTube .
  4. ↑ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine : Songs by Peter Breinholt | Peter Breinholt | TEDxBYU. YouTube .
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