By the time he was 12 years old, he had formed a rock band and soon was writing his own songs and recording them on tape. Since his childhood and early school years were made difficult by bouts of depression and attention deficit disorder, music provided a welcome escape for Mullins. Before long he had mastered the piano, bass, cello, and guitar. Brown played a major role in Mullins ’ musical development. His grandfather, Tom Brown, who had played bass in a big band from the 1930s through the 1950s, got him hooked on music at the age of four when he gave the youngster a miniature set of drums.
In no time at all, Soul ’s Core, the album on which “Lullaby ” first appeared, went platinum in the United States and gold in Canada.īorn on March 8, 1968, in Atlanta, Georgia, Mullins is the son of a railroad man and an elementary school teacher. Although the song ’s story line may have been somewhat formulaic, Mullins ’ lyrics and the song ’s melody struck a responsive chord with millions of listeners across North America. Half spoken and half sung, the song ’s lyrics tell the all-too-familiar story of a lonely soul adrift in cold-hearted Hollywood, wary of the future but fundamentally sure that “everything ’s gonna be all right ” in the end. He had been singing professionally for about a decade when his recording of “Lullaby, ” a song he wrote himself, started getting heavy airplay across the country in 1998. A young man who has been making music since the tender age of four, Shawn Mullins is hardly what would be considered an overnight success.
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