Sound Express

As lead singer and songwriting voice behind Orlando's Sound Express, 15 year old Henry Black has covered a lot of ground in the first few years along his musical journey. At age 12, Black began to sing, write, and play guitar with purpose. He become an early and ardent fan of Tom Petty, a fellow Florida musician just a few decades his senior. Black's guitar-playing and songwriting soon grew by ...equal leaps and bounds as he spent a significant amount of his 13th year playing with local blues musicians honing his own sense of the blues guitar form, one of rock and roll's most important foundational sounds. Although Black has gone on to absorb music of all kinds from multiple eras, from the Beatles to Nirvana to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Black's artistic path remains in parallel to Petty, his earliest influence, strongly rooted in the 60s rock sounds of British Invasion and American garage.