Lorin Xavier Rivers Bio

Music is the great unifier of people. Lorin Xavier Rivers has seen and lived
by this mantra for as long as he can remember. Rivers is a 22-year-old pianist for
Columbus, Ohio. He has always had a great love for music and all things with a
keyboard. Organs and synthesizers, however the piano is his great love.
Growing up in Columbus, Rivers was surrounded by many musical
influences. From playing at church, to all of the great records that were always
being played by his mother at home, to the rich tradition of musicians from
Columbus coming back to town to play. He from a very early age started playing
the things he heard at the piano, but started formal lessons at the university
when he was 7. Those lessons however always found him in trouble because his
teacher would give him the classics to play but he would always come back with
his own variations.
Growing up and playing in church gave Rivers a deep love of the lush
harmonies that he always heard and the beautiful, overarching melodies that
always moved him. But even more so than this, the way people reacted to the
music is what fascinated him. It made people dance, cry, and shout. And that
was even more amazing. Music is one of the few forces on earth that can take

people from such different walks of life and in those few minutes, they are
completely together. “Music is the great unifier of people,” says Rivers. “It is the
closest that humans can get to God and perfection. In an increasingly imperfect
world and the conflicts going on all over the world, I hope to portray this unity
and beauty in my music.”