David Sugich

Well, I'm his brother, and I can tell you that in my whole life, he is one person I know that actually pursued with an uncompromising nature, the directions of his heart. He did everything so well.. even his handwriting was beautiful! As a young man he had an extreme talent in both music and theater. I remember my younger brother and me turning towards each other during his performance at Royce Hall for winning the Frank Sinatra singing awards in the Popular category, there were girls screaming all around us.. and we said to each other.. "Our brother is a Rock Star!".. the winners had the option of using the house band, but my brother threw together his own.. He had Arthur Rubinstein's son John on the piano, a guy from a band called "Strawberry Alarm Clock" playing the bass, and his room mate Gordon De Vol singing back up, and they came out last! They were amazing, and the reaction was pandemonium!.. . and he was equally good at theater.. He got a write up in Variety magazine for his Cyrano De Bergerac when he was in high school.. and went as a walk-on without an agent to try out for Motel, the tailor, in the movie version of Fiddler on the Roof, and was so good that he got screen tested and an audience with Norman Jewison.. That was just the tip of the iceberg of his talent.. I remember listening to him sing this beautiful love song. It was a Mozart piece from the Opera Don Giovanni.. and he accompanied himself on his little 0018 Martin guitar playing the classical Mozart part on the guitar while singing Mozart's counter melody.. . Oh, and he got a full scholarship to Cal Arts when it first opened... Playing all these parts, doing Shakespeare, and even a little play where he played a little monk began aiming his heart to more spiritual matters..Questions like "who am I?" but for real.. . And just like he did in everything else, he pursued this with his same uncompromising and inspirational intelligence... This more and more became his life and a part to be played genuinely and authentically. His last two books indicate where his heart has taken him. And like everything else he ever pursued, it has yielded a beautiful fruit.