Dave Magario is a musician and lyricist.  Listen to his music once and be touched for years.  His words and melodies tip the cap to the works of Jeff Buckley, where those dwelling in shadows found light ~ and vice-versa.  A true Renaissance man, Magario dabbles in writing, sketching and a little bit of everything that’s bliss.  But his true love will always be the music.

“I am the youngest of 7 kids,” Magario, 24, says.  “Growing up in my family, there was always lots of things going on, lots of people trying different stuff.  I’d always try to do something that my siblings were doing but it always came back to music.”

Today, Margario is a far cry from the little kid who wandered around with a Casio Keyboard under his arm, wanting to be like who father who play over 500 songs on the piano from memory.  He has since charmed the guitar and the piano.  He is working on learning the accordion and according to him, there are always a couple of harmonicas lying around, begging to be played.  And of course, he uses his greatest tool ~ his own voice ~ to hypnotize the audiences.

“This Stone” features Magario with guitar and soul bared through revealing vocals.  It’s raw.  It’s real and it cannot be denied.  It might not belong to the “Get Up and Go” mix on your IPOD, but that’s fine with Magario.

“In all my time, my best songs are the ones that are most depressing,” the Webster resident notes the irony.   “And people ask for them.”

Magario doesn’t force the muse, he waits for the songs and sounds to reveal themselves.  But if he is looking for a little inspiration, he does turn to the music of Jeff Buckley.

“Even if I want to be down for a while his is the first music I go to,” Magario says. “It’s inexplicable how deeply it goes into me.  Behind all that sadness, there is a lot of hope and that’s something that people don’t often write about.  It’s really easy to write a really sad song about heart break, but it’s more difficult to write a sad song with hope.”

At the end of the day, Magario gives his music up to his fans for them to interpret and use as they will.  He has no agenda, just a divine love for what he does.

“I want people to feel what they need to feel in that moment,” he says.

For more info on Dave Magario, visit myspace.com/dmagario.