<div>I didn't grow up believing I could become anything. My childhood was marked by abuse and experiences that left me with a very simple understanding of myself: keep your head down, survive in silence.
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<div>The strange thing is that I didn't keep my head down. As an adult I became a performer. I learned to stand in front of hundreds, even thousands of people, entertain them, make them laugh, tell a darn good story and truly hold an audience.
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<div>I found myself on stages, film sets and in extraordinary rooms with extraordinary people. But the one thing I kept hidden was my singing voice.
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<div>There was one person I never quite managed to convince that I could actually sing...
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<div>Me.
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<div>For years, I could believe in everybody else's talent more easily than I could believe in my own.
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<div>That's changed. And that's why I'm doing this now...
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<div>Meet <strong>BRONSON</strong>.
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<div>And the first album already has a name:
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<div><strong>Close Around Midnight.</strong>
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<div>This isn't a tribute act. I'm not trying to be Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett or anybody else. I want to take the elegance, swagger and intimacy of the great crooner tradition and bring it to songs I love—from Beyond the Sea, Mack the Knife and Cry Me a River to Queen, Springsteen, Chris Isaak, Adele and songs you might never expect to hear this way.
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<div>Because a great song doesn't belong to a decade. And neither does <strong>BRONSON</strong>. The truth is, I want to be a successful recording and performing artist.
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<div>There. I've said it.
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<div>For much of my life I would have found a hundred ways to qualify that sentence, laugh it off or explain why it probably wouldn't happen. I'm not doing that anymore.
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<div>I’m ready to back myself. And I’m asking you to back me.
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<div>Your support will help me take <strong>BRONSON</strong> from a concept into something real: working with a producer and arranger, hiring professional musicians, getting into a proper studio, recording and mixing the first songs, creating the website KitBronson.com,<strong> </strong>producing photography and video, and ultimately building a show I can take onto stages and perform live around the world.
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<div>Whether you contribute $10, $25, $50, $100, $1,000—or simply share this campaign—you’ll become part of the very beginning of <strong>BRONSON</strong>.
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<div>Please note: No raffles, sweepstakes, giveaways, promotions, gifts, goods, services or rewards are offered in exchange for any donation made to this GoFundMe.
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<div>I’ll also be sharing the journey...
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<div>I’ll keep supporters involved throughout the process with studio updates, rehearsal footage, behind-the-scenes video and the story of how each stage of <strong>BRONSON</strong> comes together. I want the people who back this project at the beginning to feel that they are genuinely part of building everything.
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<div>You’ll be able to follow the music as it comes to life and see the journey from a lone microphone to the first <strong>BRONSON</strong> show.
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<div>My goal is to raise $25,000 to get <strong>BRONSON</strong> off the ground. That money will go directly into the things I can’t do alone: professional production and arrangements, studio time, musicians, mixing and mastering, photography, video, the website and the materials I need to take <strong>BRONSON</strong> out into the world.
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<div>Where the money will go:
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<div>Producer / arranger — $3,500
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<div>Professional studio + engineer — $3,000
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<div>Session musicians — $5,000
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<div>Mixing &amp; mastering — $2,000
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<div>Flagship performance / music video — $3,000
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<div>Website, domain &amp; booking materials — $1,500
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<div>Photography, artwork &amp; graphics — $1,000
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<div>Distribution, licensing &amp; admin — $1,000
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<div>Promotion &amp; launch advertising — $2,000
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<div>Contingency — $3,000
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<div><strong>Total: $25,000</strong>
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<div>What I’m building is more than a collection of recordings. I want to create the foundation for a real live act: professionally produced music, a visual identity, performance video, a website and the material needed to approach venues, agents, event buyers and audiences with something I’m proud to put my name to.
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<div>I’m already investing my time, equipment and money into <strong>BRONSON</strong>. This campaign isn’t asking you to build it for me; it’s asking you to help me take it to the professional level I can’t reach alone.
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<div>The goal is to create the first 8 professionally produced <strong>BRONSON</strong> recordings, along with the visual and promotional material needed to launch the act.
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<div>And when I finally walk back onto the stage and hear those first notes fill the air, I’ll know I didn’t get there alone.
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<div>For years, I waited for someone to tell me I was good enough.
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<div>I’m done waiting.
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<div>The microphone is here. The songs are waiting.
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<div>It’s time to become <strong>BRONSON</strong>.
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<div>If you believe I should take the risk, back me—and come with me.
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<div>Because the truth is, I’m ready to believe in myself.
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<div>But please know this: it would mean the world to me to know that you believe in me too.
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<div>I’m ready. I just need to know that you’ve got my back.
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