: About Me

Bryan Solari is a 25 year old singer/songwriter,proprietor of a small Bay Area record label, and upright citizen living in California's gem of San Francisco, CA. Bryan is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley in Berkeley, CA and is preparing for law school at any number of fine institutions in the United States.

While wearing many different hats at an early stage in life, Bryan is attempting to make a living doing what he loves to do. Perhaps this adventurous spirit is in his genes - his father was a farmer who traveled the world at 21 (at a time when this was not the cat's meow de facto experience), and his mother was a musician before becoming a teacher. Solari is now attempting to join his two passions in life: music/music industry and collaboration (intellectual property/contract law).

Solari enjoys socializing about music, books, and dreams over an open fire on his small property in Linden, CA. In his spare time, which seems to be less structured these days, you can find Solari drinking coffee in hideouts across the western states, searching for inspiration to paint color into his song writing, playing shows up and down California with his band (The Local Collective), and applying to law school in his office.

My passion is ...

music and compromise

I know too much about ...

Sales and Marketing

My parents always told me ...

that I should be a lawyer, and I resisted until I realized that mother really does know best and that law was absolutely the way for me to join all of my passions into a career.

My childhood ambition ...

to play Bridge School Benefit Concert. This dream is finally on the verge of coming true.

My favorite memory ...

3.5 years spent at Berkeley, reading every book I could get my hands on, loving life, and living it out honestly.

Why I write ...

because if I don't, my muse will starve.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Anne Ivey, Paulo Coelho, John Steinbeck, and Diplo.

My first job ...

First grown up job: Jambase, Inc. First amazing job: F5 Records (writer/musician)

My best moment ...

Playing a song for James Taylor, not realizing it was James Taylor.

My inspiration ...

The Great State of Gold: California.

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Forcing the Issue: The Potential Consequences of Compulsory Voting on American Democracy The United States of America currently sits near the bottom of the heap concerning turnout in modern democracies. In the 2000 Presidential Election, only 51 percent of the eligible American public voted . Despite the exaggerated celebratory nature of analysts, turnout for the Presidential Election of 2004 was only higher by a small handful of percentage points. The consistent decline of voter turnout, across all electoral boundaries and in every category of election, has spurred various political scien...

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