For award winning robotics developer Steve Favis, playing guitar and singing has been a recreational activity for the last 15 or so years.
“I always told myself maybe in the next life I’ll do some music,” Favis says.
But after a near-death experience, Favis figured, “why wait to the next life?”
It’s only been a few weeks since Favis began turning a hobby into something much more and started recording his own creations, and he’s already released half a dozen songs and promises more are on the way.
“I had my own near-death experiences and one of them was with COVID,” Favis says. “I was hospitalized for two weeks at UC-Davis Medical Center and I almost died. I just woke up two weeks later basically, but from my perspective I was dead. It was kind of a spiritual experience. I saw my own judgment and stuff.”
Crafting his music with digital instrumentation and his own powerful voice, Favis released his first song, “Rangers Lead the Way!” on July 8, and then a week later, after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, he was again struck with inspiration and went to work immediately on another new song, “Fight Fight Fight!”, on which he sings:
I almost took a bullet to my brain for the people of America
One quarter inch from civil war. One quarter inch from the end of the republic
An AR-15 with 5.56 ain’t no match for me. I ain’t gonna be a travesty
It’s time for the rise of the republic. It’s time for America to be great
Just two days after the dramatic events at Trump’s Pennsylvania rally, Favis released his song after “banging out the lyrics almost instantly. It was free flowing thought.”
“There’s just a massive following for Trump,” Favis says. “It was almost traumatic seeing the assassination attempt so that’s how I churned that music so quickly. It was like therapy for me. Obviously nobody deserves to die or get killed for political views. I thought that stuff ended with the JFK era but apparently not.”
And the reaction to Favis’ song has been “fantastic,” he says.
“Everybody is really, really loving the song,” he says. “I’m just getting it ready to perform it live. I need to find a whole band to perform it live. Phenomenal reaction, people love it. People are spreading it like crazy.”
While he looks for others to join him (he plays drums and guitar, too), Favis is still hard at work producing new music in the metal, punk and indie realm. His most recent single is “The Innovator’s Revenge,” which addresses economic espionage, while his next release will be a love song for “the love of my life,” he says.
“I’m a robotics developer by trade,” he says. “I don’t know if I’m going to make any money off this but hopefully I can get funding to build my robots. I have some robotics patents, I make advanced robotics.”
The humanoid robots he’s developing will be useful in agriculture, industry and even defense applications, he says.
As for his songs, he plans to compile them into a 12-track album in the future after finishing a few more.
“I enjoy the process,” he says. “I love singing obviously and I love the whole process of composition, writing and recording. It’s extremely therapeutic and for people who like singing, I encourage them to take vocal lessons and write their own music. It’s phenomenally liberating as far as being able to express your emotions in a productive manner.”
That’s a message he wants to emphasize.
“They don’t have to be scared to sing, anybody with any voice can sing, it just takes practice and the process is extraordinarily rewarding,” he says. “I regret not doing this sooner.”
Favis has also debuted an official video for “Fight Fight Fight!” on his website and YouTube.
Make sure to stay connected to Favis for new music, videos and social posts:
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