Sebastian Tribal played guitar before he could read or write. Never having other options for himself in mind, he made his path into music through a classical guitar education from early childhood to the end of his teenage years, while listening to his parents’ country and blues records as well as his older brother’s hard rock albums.
As a 20-something year old he had the choice to either pursue a career as a classical guitarist or play in a major label signed metal band. He went for the later and from that point on was making his way as a professional through the perishing old fashioned music business for the next decade. However, difficult times should come his way. But he would neither become an addict, nor would he be gambling for money in back rooms of strip clubs. No! Sebastian Tribal got his first ”real” job. And what a job that was! With the PR & Marketing background, as well as the network in the media business that he had built up over the years, he was asked to run a business magazine. Fed up with how things went in the music business back then, he entered the publishing world not working his way up, but starting at the top position. The benefits of having a job like this were so seductive to him that he did not mind the 18 hour days and the persistent lack of weekends. Beside this little snag, he really had it all. The company was successful, Sebastian was driving luxury sports cars, wearing Swiss watches and Italian suits, and sipping cocktails with little straw hats while visiting the most beautiful and exciting places on earth. “It felt like touring the world like a rock star for five years without playing a single gig. Sure, something didn’t feel right, but thinking of the struggle in my musician live, having it all seemed to be the way better option. Until this very moment…“ While stretching out his legs after a three course dinner and half a bottle of red wine on a first class flight to another tropical luxury retreat, he was catching a flick called  ”Crazy Heart”. When listening to the theme song called “The Weary Kind” at the end of the movie about a worne out, weary country star giving it one more try, Sebastian was sitting in his booth crying. He suddenly felt all the numbness he had created around himself that was now leaving him emotionally broke. But suddenly he also could feel his heart beating somewhere underneath. So he wrote down all these feelings that would become the lyrics to his songs, during that plane ride. Now he knew that the only way to real happiness would be following his true calling, his music. He started to drag guitars and recording gear into his office, skipped meetings and business trips, and wrote and recorded songs instead of making phone calls or writing emails. In these songs one can hear the melancholy, the numbness and the fatigue the singer-songwriter had been feeling. But also there is this sense of homecoming in his music a sense of internal peace. Being back from that estranging experience and having learned this lesson in life, this time Sebastian Tribal has no choice but to play on.