Bio from www.spiritually-minded.com . Used by permission.

The artist Spiritually Minded—known as Adam Vegys—grew up just outside of Toronto, Canada in the suburb of Brampton. It was here in this suburb of Tim Hortons and Macdonald's that Adam's promising career with inspirational electronic music was birthed. Not conforming to one style but being able to produce drum n bass, break-beat, and trip-hop, he also goes beyond to his own unimaginable style of electronic music.

Right now, Adam is preparing live sets and booking gigs in the Toronto area, as well as throwing parties with the "Toronto Groove Collective", which is rapidly gaining popularity for holding quality events. He recently backed hip-hop artists IllSeer and Runaway at the Nidus Festival in Kitchener, Ontario. He is striving to make more of the DJ and add live elements into his sets, such as drums, singers and Ableton Live. In the studio, Adam is starting to pump out fresh new sounds of drum n bass, breakbeat, and trip-hop. He has three CDs currently finished: Fanatic, DemoDaze, and BeeSides. These records have sounds ranging from drum n bass, breakbeat, trip-hop to house music.

In the years past, Adam developed a desire for music. In grade 3, he started with the recorder and a ukulele then, moving on to better things, picked up a trumpet in junior high. In high school, he continued to play trumpet and get grounded in theory. Soon he became bored of all the repetitive scales and joined a grunge band, playing the drums. He also learned guitar and bass in high school.

Getting into electronic music—mostly drum n bass and breaks—he left the rock side of things and decided to go solo. He went out and bought a pair of turntables and started to DJ. It was around this same time that he started to come back to the Christian faith. Even though he was good at mixing, Adam decided that God wanted him to give up spinning for a time.

Adam decided to continue with the music and produce on his computer. Getting a job at a local music store put him in prime position to read up and buy all the latest gear, the only problem being money. Gear was expensive.  After getting a small studio together and acquiring a small debt, he learned to produce the music he loved and started making albums. In 2005, after about 5 years, he released his third work, Fanatic, as his first official album.

For Adam it goes beyond just making music. He has always asked questions about life and sought truth and answers. After spending a couple of years bouncing around the club and rave scene, experimenting with different drugs, and dancing the nights away, he could not find what he was looking for and turned to God for answers. After coming back to the church, he found it a tough place to find the realness of God. Going through this gave him a unique perspective of the truth and unfortunately a great distrust for the church. Eventually God directed him to some excellent real-deal Christians, namely Absolute Ministries, the Tehillah network, and now the TACF downtown church known as Central, where Adam's trust was gradually gained back for the true Church.  Through all this, he has gained a great passion to reach out to the urban culture non-religiously and spread the good news to all people. He looks forward to a bright future in the greatness of God.

Adam is constantly involved with the community and charity, going on mission trips to Germany and post-Katrina New Orleans, and supporting things like Compassion Canada. He has a burden to reach out in his own way with his music and intends to impact the club culture with his music by helping throw local events to pump positive messages back into the scene.

Web site:

• www.spiritually-minded.com