Daniel Chavez

Background

About Daniel Chavez

My life started in San Antonio, TX, but soon moved to Central Kansas, where I was enrolled in High School, but did not finish. Looking back through bifocals at thirty-five years in heavy and dangerous construction experience, I realize it was an excellent education. If you’re not going to finish high school, you certainly need to learn about life. Around 1980, I quit traipsing around the country and settled in Nashville. I learned to play the guitar and write and arrange original songs; so it seemed only natural to dabble in Country Music. After building a home recording studio, I began making music. Currently, my sister plays many of my songs in an online music room, and she reports that folks enjoy hearing them. In 1994, I relocated back to Kansas to help an older brother who was suffering with a terminal illness. I had spent years as a welder/pipefitter foreman, a construction boss installing grain handling machinery, and as a maintenance technician. No longer able to do physical labor meant it was time to put my brain to work. I took up hobbies, such as writing poetry, screenplays, photography, woodworking, leather-work, then made bows and arrows. Bored, and with a burning desire for something more challenging, I was anxious to chart a new course. One day, my younger brother asked if I had any ideas for a literary project he could work on. After providing an outline for the project, he recommended I should write the story. Eventually, mastering the craft of writing, my persistence finally paid off. Ten years later, “Marcelino and the Curse of the Gold Frog” joined my collection of completed works alongside "Where Summer Goes Winter Follows."