American singer-songwriter Vincent Poag has shared his new album, a heartwarming and soulful collection of twelve songs titled Masquerade. The eighth song of the album is the only collaboration from the tracklist, with Diana Hope’s beautiful voice enchanting us from start to finish, especially with the exquisite humming that ends the song in full grace.
Following in the footsteps of legendary artists like Bob Dylan, Vincent Poag has brought back the power of poetry and music into the modern era. Born in the 1950s in Massapequa, Vincent Poag attended performances by Sinatra and Elvis Presley as a teenager, and was exposed to the Broadway musical era.
Despite receiving his first guitar at the age of eight, marking the beginning of his songwriting process, it is following a birthday present in 2008 by his wife, who gifted him a guitar, that Vincent Poag began releasing music. To date, he has released four albums, including his debut LP Circling Back in 2011, For The Girls in 2014, Heroes and Demons in 2018 and Masquerade a few weeks ago.
Some of Vincent Poag’s biggest hits have been streamed over 1M times each, including “America,” “Stress,” and “This Christmas.”
The first song I ever wrote in Nashville was my first single that was ever released, my first single to be added to playlists, and my first single to be played on the radio. In my first song, Blame It on My Heart, I wanted to write a song that really tells what it feels like when you’re head over heels a lot quicker than expected. Sometimes I think there’s an invisible timeline of when certain things are supposed to happen in a relationship, so I wrote this song for the people who go all in. My favorite song I’ve written so far, Prove You Wrong is a song for the people who doubted me and weren’t supportive of my career choice. As I said, in high school, I was shy and quiet and didn’t say a word about my hopes and dreams. So when I finally gained the courage to tell people my passion, not everyone was excited for my future. I wrote this song for myself as an outlet, but also made it for everyone; not just a song for the people trying to make it in the music business. I love big-band sounds: Earth, Wind, and Fire, Billy Joel, Elton John, so I really wanted to add that element to this song specifically, even though it is carried throughout all my songs. As much as I love a lot of instruments, my ballad, You Ain’t Him, is definitely my most meaningful. I drew from experiences that I know most other people have gone through of dealing with a bad relationship and moving on to one that is much better. I have come to the realization in the song that what is in front of me is better than what’s past. Like all my songs, it’s for everyone to relate to because we’ve all been there.
I thought that, if I were to create music, nobody would want to listen to it – or worse, that they would listen to it and wonder why I had bothered to create music in the first place.
Every day, I wake up to a flurry of comments from a huge variety of people across all my social 
The inspiration for this song actually came from observing friends and family and how they moved on, or didn’t move on, from what they believed was their first love. The song is written from both perspectives of a past relationship and references 
Now, fast-forwarding to 2019, I have been awarded funding and support from the MOBO Help Musicians Fund, listed for Glastonbury Emerging Talent, and I have released my debut album entitled 
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We’ve been inspired by many musicians and bands, and I think subconsciously you filter the best parts of all of that down into what makes you. There’s no need to compare yourself to others, or purposefully try and create anything that will be considered acceptable by a mainstream music outlook, because that’s just not real, and right now there is very little reality and emotion there in those songs. I think a better way is to make music for yourself first of all, then it is true and honest and real. That’s the reason we do what we do, and I hope you may like the music we make!
