Daniel Barclay to release EP as Danny Sorrow

Freshman music business major, Daniel Barclay, plans on releasing an extended play album, or EP, titled "Everything's Eventual"  this fall.

As an up-and-coming artist, Barclay is a varied musician—he sings, he raps and he plays around with different genres.

Though born as Daniel Barclay, he felt he needed to find a unique stage name. While Barclay was a street team member for a Louisville band, Sacred Sorrow, all of his peers started calling him Danny Sorrow.  When he kicked his music project into gear, he decided to go with the name all of his Louisville fans knew him by.

"As I started writing, I started to learn that sorrow is the most important emotion to have in life," Barclay said. "You learn so much from sadness."  

In August, Barclay opened for rapper, Tech N9ne in Louisville, which he regards as his biggest accomplishment as a musician thus far.

"I actually hadn't even been writing as Danny Sorrow for very long at that point," Barclay said. "Someone had just heard my stuff, and I knew the right people."

Barclay is working on a collaboration project with fellow musician and friend, Christian Chapman, titled "Rogues and Knights". The project is to exude the message of being an individual and true to oneself.

"We use a castle as our main goal in life," Barclay said. "All of us have a dream or goal to be a king or queen of that castle. Some of us go the noble way of doing so, and some of us go a rebel way of doing so, but no matter which way you go, you're not alone."

Though he doesn't have any crazy fan stories, Barclay recalls working at Taco Bell during the summer time with middle school girls calling and asking for him.

"I have even gotten people asking for my autograph in the drive-thru," Sorrow said. "I say, ‘I can sign your receipt!'"