Duane Forrest is a singer-songwriter and multimedia artist from Toronto, Canada. His unique sound blending jazz, reggae, bossa nova, and soul and smooth vocals draws on his experiences traveling the world, falling in love, and finding wonder in the joys and sorrows of a common human experience. He has toured in Canada, Europe, and Central America.

In 2017, Duane debuted his first theatre production, Climb, a live album experience based on his concept album, The Climb. Climb hit the stage again at the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival, where Toronto Fringe Festival founder Gregory Nixon described Duane’s show as “an engaging, multilayered work of song, storytelling and movement” and “one of the highlights of this year’s Fringe.” His forthcoming double jazz and fusion album Sol e Sol builds on themes of love, heartbreak, and self-discovery, reflecting musically Duane’s growth as an artist and a human being.

Aside from his innate drive to create beautiful things, Duane also has a passion for arts education. In 2011 he founded Genesis Community of the Arts, a registered Canadian charity offering music and arts education to marginalized children and youth in Toronto and Central America.

To find out more about Genesis, please visit www.genesisartschool.com.

[Verse]

Looking up
Endless skies are above
All out of my reach
And a sun that sends rays
From a million miles away
Still warms the face
Though it's 10 minutes late
We All get to bathe
In the Light

[Chorus]

What are we
That you min our sleep
Working out everything
Adam and eve
Under the shade
Of the baobab tree

[Verse]

Looking down 2 feet on the ground
On a bed of green blades
Hear the scream of new babes
See the way of a snake
On a rocks surface
Feel the give and the take
Of the sand and the waves
It's just right

[Chorus]

What are we
That you mind our sleep
Working out everything
Adam and eve
Under the shade
Of the baobab tree

[Bridge]

Stars are out to play
In the play that was made
Before foundations were laid
When time first met space
When I was given my name
Dreams in my DNA
Dreams

[Verse]

As I look
At the most high above
In awe and amazement
Everyone one of the hairs
On my head have been counted
Whenever I'm falling
Into utter darkness
I'm never too far from his
reach

[Chorus]

What are we
That you mind our sleep
Working out everything
Adam and eve
Under the shade
Of the baobab tree

What am I
In the equation of life
But a drop in an ocean
That fits in an ocean
With planets in motion
Atoms and protons

Still I'm the apple of your eye