Floyd Gadd
Floyd Gadd is a Canadian musician involved in the Christian music genre. He was born in Canada in the early 1960s. Gadd earned two Bachelor degrees, a degree in Church Music from Canadian Bible College in Regina, Saskatchewan (1984), and an Honors degree in Vocal Performance from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario (1997). Gadd lived in Canada until March 2006, when he accepted a job as a worship director at a church in Morton, Illinois in the United States.
Floyd resigned just a year later in March 2007. He returned to Canada in June 2007 to teach singing part time at the Eckhardt Gramatté Conservatory of Music and to operate a piano tuning and repair business.
Musical career
In addition to vocal performance, Gadd has played bass guitar intermittently since the mid-1970s. Floyd is an avid tenor vocalist. Prior to his time in the U.S., Gadd performed as a featured soloist with several choral groups throughout Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Ontario.
Recordings
In 2004, Gadd recorded his first CD as a soloist, with Kara Dixon on the piano. The CD was recorded and engineered by Joe Fingerote. His CDs are available from various online music download sites. Gadd has also picked a selection of songs that were recorded in 2001. These songs are kept on his website, and are mainly for audition purposes. This list of songs contains about 12 full-length tracks featuring Gadd as a soloist.