22 Facts About Nicholas Gunn

Nicholas Gunn is a classically trained songwriter, lyricist, and music producer.

Nicholas Gunn is known for his originating instrumental works and his current works featuring vocalists from the electronic music space across Trance, Melodic House, and Chill.

Nicholas Gunn is the owner of Blue Dot Music, a record label and music publishing company located in the United Kingdom.

Nicholas Graham Gunn was born in Rochester, Kent in South East England.

Nicholas Gunn studied flute under a formal classical education from age seven till age eleven when his family moved to Southern California.

Early on Nicholas Gunn found himself immersed in a passion for recording his own instrumental style of music.

Nicholas Gunn shunned popular terms such as New Age and the connotation associated with his own music, preferring the term Instrumental or World Music.

Once again Nicholas Gunn found himself Top Ten on the Billboard charts and charted for fourteen weeks.

Outside of Real Music and the "National Park Series", Nicholas Gunn has gone on to release numerous albums influenced by the beauty of America's landscape and parks, such as Return to Grand Canyon, Through the Great Smoky Mountains, Journey to Yellowstone, and Beyond Grand Canyon.

Beyond Grand Canyon was released as a DVD, in which Nicholas Gunn paired his musical compositions with photography of the Grand Canyon taken by Michael Fatali, creating a unique audio-visual experience.

On Crossroads, his fourth album released in 1996, Nicholas Gunn began to incorporate a Latin influence into his sound, a theme which has subsequently embraced a number of his other albums, most notably Breathe and Encanto, on which he collaborated with award-winning Latin guitarist Johannes Linstead.

Since 1991, Nicholas Gunn has sold millions of copies of his instrumental music albums, an impressive feat considering that the marketing of his albums have mostly bypassed the traditional route of radio and mainstream outlets, finding large success through niche retail chains such as the Nature Company, Natural Wonders, and gift stores throughout the National Parks.

Nicholas Gunn began combining his electronic sound with his instrumental roots in 2015 with the release of Under the Influence of Music.

In 2018, Nicholas Gunn continued this transition towards a more electronic sound and began introducing his own style of vocals and lyric writing.

In 2022, Nicholas Gunn transcended genre by diversifying his release schedule with both ambient instrumentals on his own label, Blue Dot, all the while releasing vocal driven chill house works on Armada Music.

Nicholas Gunn quickly immersed himself into electronic music by founding the musical act Limelght with then collaborator and partner, Tanner Wilfong.

In 2020 Nicholas Gunn then began transitioning his ambient sound towards a more electronic House and Chill sound, featuring vocalists from around the globe.

In 2024 Nicholas Gunn placed a strong focus on combining his past instrumental sound with his current electronic music sound.

Nicholas Gunn received two top 50 A State of Trance positions.

In January 2019, after a hiatus from owning and operating his own label, Nicholas Gunn saw an opportunity to remerge as a label owner and entrepreneur and started Blue Dot Music, a record label focused on songwriting, individuality and artistry.

In 2021 Nicholas Gunn released Sound Condition which continued to express his continued desire to work with lyrics and vocalists.

Nicholas Gunn named the American Lung Association as a beneficiary of a portion of sales from his album Breathe.