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Dean Omori (born Dean Francis Bedwell, 5 July 1968) is an English singer-songwriter, poet and producer. Omori is the Japanese word for "big forest".
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His work is often connected to humanitarian causes and addresses human rights, war, environment, prejudice and philosophical issues. Dean is the founder of The Art Of Protest, an organisation set up to encourage protest through art and music.
Personal life
Born in Great Yarmouth, an eastern English seaside town that saw an influx of Italian immigrants in the 1930s and 1940s, one of whom was Dean’s mother.
Dean began guitar lessons at the age of 6 but was not a natural. He said he never really could understand the point of playing other peoples music. His undiagnosed dyslexia dogged him throughout his school life but this complicated relationship with language became a fascination that would form the basis of a more coherent means of communication through music and words in the following decades. Divorce, adoption, wealth and poverty shaped his early years until he met his future wife at sixteen and disappeared to a future that would show him music, books and art. By the age of 19 Dean was studying jazz, the romantic poets and had begun to write his own compositions. Dean lives in Norwich with his wife and two children.
Early career
As agents and record company promises had come and gone Dean remained focused on his songwriting. In later years Dean would argue that he has written more songs than most people have heard. But with the birth of his first child Dean gave up music to look after his children. It was not until part way through the first decade of the new millennium that he would take to his music again, but by this time Dean had found his voice.
Music and film
In 2006 Dean picked up his guitar again and began to write the songs that would eventually make up his first album TEN WAR SONGS. In the following years he would write, performed and produced ten albums. Dean began making short films to accompany his music. In 2008 the World Wide Fund for nature (WWF) awarded him best film and music for How Can You Sleep. His songs lyrics have been translated into French, Spanish and Japanese.
In 2010 Dean was discovered by Malcolm Holmes of OMD and signed to the label Fin Music. His music and film Censorship Burns The Books Nobody Read was used by Freemuse to help support their cause, highlighting the persecution of artists and musicians around the world.
In 2011 Dean was invited to write the music celebrating Amnesty International's 50th year, which was released in May and has toured supporting their cause. In 2016, his album 'Got Daddy Gone' was written for War Child to draw attention to the ongoing war in Syria.
In 2013 Dean left his record company to independently release a new album Sean Penn. After the split he has remained an independent artist with full control to write, perform, produce and record all of his material.
Deans works often with Sophie Vaughan, cellist and vocalist. Daughter of Ivan Vaughan, was a boyhood friend of John Lennon, and later schoolmate of Paul McCartney. He played bass part-time in Lennon's first band, The Quarrymen, and was responsible for introducing Lennon to Paul McCartney at a community event (the Woolton village fête) on 6 July 1957, where The Quarrymen were performing. McCartney impressed Lennon, who invited McCartney to join the band, which he did a day later. This led to the formation of Lennon and McCartney's songwriting partnership, and later of The Beatles.
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Quotes
"Protest doesn’t have to be ugly."
"As a young man I thought in poems and I spoke out in prose."
"Take off your shoes and feel the earth, get a sense of what you're not."