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Doug is the “lead” with HouseBlend, which does not mean that he leads HouseBlend, but rather that he is usually the person singing the easy, melody line. Considering the hard work required of Kent, Bill and Jim to learn and memorize their parts, Doug’s election to sing lead demonstrates a subtly discriminating, relative intellect.

Doug has been involved in music and singing all of his life. He graduated from California Institute of the Arts where he specialized in voice and German lieder. He is a retired choir director and orchestra conductor as of September 2014, teaches vocal pedagogy privately and is actively involved in music composition and arranging. He loves ballad, Karaoke, R&B, CW, the classic vocal repertoire, opera and oratorio. He has performed them all on a more-or-less professional level, but his favorite is HouseBlend.

All occupational endeavors in Doug’s life have been secondary to his music career. He is the only member of HouseBlend who has never really worked his entire life.

Celebrating 13 years of marriage with his wife Darlene in Concord and is making better music than ever before.