Pick the day and contact rockstar/computer geek Brian King.
The 27-year-old graduate student will pen a 30- to 120-second song for just about any reason as part of his telegram company, yourdailyjingle.com .
King has already rocked out for the South Park Historic Neighborhood, gone punk for a law school drop out, and channeled the Backstreet Boys for a client’s brother’s birthday.
He rapped as the Dayton Charity Chicken flapped her wings and clucked.
“... Wherever you came from, you should feel lucky You’d be a bucket of wings if you grew up in Kentucky ...”
“If someone has something they want to say, I can help the them say it through music,” the Seattle-raised Oregon District resident said.
His plan is to write 365 jingles this year — one for every day — and post them on YouTube and at yourdailyjingle.com.
King, a musician since age 8, developed Your Daily Jingle in November after coming across iwearyourshirt.com.
That business had a Los Angeles man wear a different shirt everyday in 2009.
“He wasn’t anyone famous. It was just a dude in a T-shirt,” King said. “I thought, ‘why can’t you do something like that?’ ”
Your Daily Jingle’s pricing structure is similar to that of I Wear Your Shirt.
The price per jingle is based on the day of the year. The jingle for Jan. 1 was $1. The one King sells on Dec. 31 will cost $365.
At the end of the year, King hopes to raise $67,000 to help pay off student loans accumulated by himself and his wife, Karelisa.
Twenty percent of the money made will be donated to a charity selected by popular vote. Dayton’s Victory Project, a partnership of business, criminal justice and faith communities to serve court-involved youth, received the $41 raised for charity in January.
The Kings moved to Dayton in August so Karelisa King could take a dietetic internship at Miami Valley Hospital.
Brian King spend much of his time working toward his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from The University of Washington.
The music is a way for him to be creative.
“I have been so busy doing research,” he said. “There would be days that I wouldn’t leave the apartment.”
King compares his jingles to the children’s music he started writing for church at age 12 or 13.
“It’s not this dark, serious, drab music,” he said. “You can dance around and have a good time.”
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