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Justin Utley, Musician

In 2010, I worked with LGBT recording artist Justin Utley on the release of his single, Stand for Something. Read more about Justin Utley below.

Justin Utley
Openly-gay ex-Mormon singer/songwriter Justin Utley has been intimately involved with the music scene and performing arts since the impressionable age of seven. He was a featured performer at the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics and earned numerous awards, including “Best Singer and Songwriter” by Salt Lake City Weekly. The Utah native also composed and performed the theme song to the Emmy Award-winning PBS movie The Shadow of Light.

Theatrically, his credits include a seven-month Utah regional run as “Joseph” in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2001-2002) and the Utah premiere of Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida (2005). Utley coveted the bejeweled role of leading man “Radames” in the multiple award-winning Broadway musical. Later, he would leave his Mormon-inherited religion behind, come out as an openly gay man, relocate to Manhattan and debut in the New York City theater scene as “Tommy Dautry” in the musical Our Country (2010). The show garnered the Best Musical and Best Actor awards for the Planet Connections Theater Festivity.

Utley released his first-ever nationally distributed album Runaway on Kolob Records in November 2005 and then, in 2006, a remix EP entitled Hold You + Remixes was released in April 2006. In June of 2010, Utley released Stand for Something – a single written exclusively with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in mind. The single was meant to inspire his LGBT brothers and sisters to take action towards securing equality in America.

Justin’s next full-length album, tentatively titled The Great Escape, will be released in the spring of 2011.