Adam Plomaritas

Imagine that John Mayer had spent his formative years backing both Ray Charles and Bruno Mars, soaking up all they had to offer before stepping out into the spotlight, and you start to get a sense of the soulful, blues-inflected pop music made by Adam Plomaritas.

Heavily influenced by his father’s love of Elvis Presley and Boston, not to mention the fact the he himself was a singer/songwriter, he cut his teeth in different groups in Ypsilanti, MI, spanning a variety of genres from Rock to R&B. Since his 2013 album The Hard Way, he has been releasing singles and crafting songs out of the hundreds of memos he has on his phone and building on those ideas in the studio. Spurred on by the love of his wife and children, he is helping the musical community he belongs to become collaborative rather than competitive - which is why he can count local favorites such as Chris DuPont and The Ragbirds as friends.

Plomaritas has turned down the distortion for a while now, but he still knows how to play his guitar - you don’t get described as a ‘Telecaster-toting grizzly’ for nothing. You can hear that on his latest single The Other Side, the first taken from a new album due out this fall. It’s the crystallization of everything he has experienced to date - summertime-drive music that will help you escape life’s troubles and remind you to enjoy the good times, something we could all do with during these troubled times.