ROCK GUITARIST TURNED FAITH BASED MUSICIAN

CALEB QUAYE – WHOM ERIC CLAPTON ONCE CALLED

‘THE BEST GUITAR PLAYER IN THE WORLD’ -

 IS SUBJECT OF CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN

TO RAISE FUNDS TO COMPLETE ‘A VOICE LOUDER

THAN ROCK,’ A DOCUMENTARY BASED ON HIS

POPULAR 2006 AUTOBIOGRAPHY   

The U.K.-Born Musician, Who Rose To Fame With Elton

John’s Classic ’70s Bands, Tells a Fascinating “Rags To Riches

To Rags To Redemption Story” That Has Taken Him From

Touring The World To An Empowering Musical Ministry

LOS ANGELES - GloRoc Productions is launching a dynamic crowd-funding campaign to raise funds for the completion of “A Voice Louder Than Rock,”a documentary based on “A Voice Louder Than Rock & Roll,” the popular2006 autobiography by Caleb Quaye (www.newworldmusic.org), the spiritually and geographically well-traveled musician that none other than the legendaryEric Clapton once called “The Best Guitar Player in the World.”

Quaye wrote the book that the film is based on with Dale A. Berryhill.

While the production team has finished 49 percent of the project on essentially no budget, GloRoc is seeking a total of $100,000 between campaigns onFaithLauncher.com and Gofundme.com. The extra funds will go towards finishing primary photography, editing, post-production and travel expenses related to overseas travel for more artist and musician interviews that will help flesh out Quaye’s extraordinary story. The sites are administered by his nephew Darius Carlo, who masterminded the campaign, and multiple Emmyaward-winning producer Valerie J. Tucker, his manager and head of GloRoc Productions, who is producing the film.

A powerful “Rags to Riches to Rags to Redemption” story with built in appeal to rock fans and faith based audiences alike, “A Voice Louder Than Rock” chronicles Quaye’s journey from being a legendary rock sideman throughout the ’70s with greats like Elton John and Hall & Oates to launching a very different, even more vibrant life in ministry, overseeing the worship ministries at the prominent Foursquare Church called The Church on the Wayin Van Nuys, Calif. (where he was first baptized) and traveling and speaking throughout the country.

Beyond powerful footage of Quaye touring with Elton John, Hall & Oates and playing with groups like Frank Zappa’s Mother’s of Invention, the doc includes vintage clips of his father, British born singer, multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Cab Kaye, who worked with jazz legends like Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie. It also features interviews with famedGenesis drummer Chester Thompson, Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Ed King(co-writer of “Sweet Home Alabama”), Memphis blues guitarist Buddy Davis, longtime EJ guitarist and musical director Davey Johnstone, engineerStuart Epps, string arranger Paul Buckmaster and Dr. Jack Hayford,Founding Pastor of The Church on the Way.

Beyond the glamour, the fame and the touring, Quaye – who played a key role in launching Sir Elton‘s career, appeared on his seminal early ’70s albums and recorded and toured the world with the singer during his mid-’70s heyday – recalls the dark side which involved years of partying and taking drugs. He wondered several times, “Is this all there is?”

The story told by “A Voice Louder Than Rock” reveals that there is a Voicethat is louder than not only Rock but any other noise that take over our daily thoughts – unabashedly, and in line with Quaye’s powerful conversion experience in the early ’80s, that voice is Jesus. The film is a spirited chronicle of a great rock and roller working and touring with legends – but also offers, via his story, a message of hope and redemption. Quaye believes that in today’s world, where there is an abundance of misinformation and confusion, people still need to hear a story of hope – and as per his faith, that hope lies in Christ.

“When I was hobnobbing with some of the biggest stars popular music has ever produced - Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend, Lou Reed, Hall & Oates and most notably, Elton John – I thought I had what matters in life. If I had stopped to think about it, I would have dismissed the idea of religious faith as something unreal. Today, I see that it was the fame and the success that were unreal and transient and that it is my religious faith that is meaningful and lasting.”

As Quaye says in the two minute trailer that appears on both crowdfunding sites, “I wasn’t looking for God or Jesus or anything, or religion, but I was looking for answers to this existence we call life.” In the late ’70s, as his career was on the wane and his marriage was breaking up he heard a voice. “In my limited understanding,” he says “I knew I had been spoken to. I just didn’t know by who. So I made a little promise to myself. I said, ‘One day I am going to find out who that voice belonged to.”

Everything changed at a church service Chester Thompson took him to in1982, when he identified the voice as that of God, truly “A Voice Louder than Rock and Roll.” He realized he had been given a musical gift but could no longer play music for the same reasons as before. He gave up music entirely for a while to study the Bible and enter the ministry at The Church on the Way while working a series of regular jobs outside the music industry.

Some years later, while working as part of the music faculty at Life Pacific College, Quaye put together a band of fellow professors to play at an annual music conference at Biola University. After a number of years devoted solely to inspirational music, he ventured into making secular recordings for the first time, launching Caleb Quaye and the Faculty, which played gigs around Southern California and recorded an album called Out of the Blue and All The Way Live (recorded at Alva’s Showroom in San Pedro, Calif.).

“I felt a calling back to the music industry, and began playing instrumental compositions as a way to bring light into dark places,” Quaye says. “That desire is also the driving force behind this documentary. We’re living in a world where the problems are increasingly bad and people are so desperate for some kind of hope, a light to shine in the darkness. And so I want to take them from a place where I had all the supposed great things of the world but was selling instruments just to get my latest fix, to the light and hope I found in Christianity.

“I also want to be a positive musical influence,” he adds. “There are so many artists and bands that have come along, spewing angst and despair, desolation, hopelessness and futility. I’m proud of the contributions I have made to recordings that have stood the test of time and have touched several generations of Elton’s fans. And in the context of faith, I have had the privilege of experiencing the music I wrote and played affecting people’s lives for eternity. Those are the things in my life I’m excited to share in ‘A Voice Louder Than Rock.”