Inspired by his father who was once a country artist himself, Ethan Edghill has brought his talents to Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK). Edghill performs throughout the city of Kingsville playing at venues such as bars, clubs, restaurants and at TAMUK\u2019s own Screaming Javelina music festival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Edghill has always had a burning passion for music, but it wasn\u2019t until his sophomore year that Edghill decided to start volunteering as a music minister at the Kingsville Newman Center and Chapel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt really all started with this church, and it just took off. I started with this church around my sophomore year so it was just for free or volunteer work. I\u2019m now the music coordinator for the church and getting to do that is a dream come true, it\u2019s one of the best jobs that one could have,\u201d Edghill said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chaplain Fr. Charles Silva is an individual who has seen Edghill grow since the beginning of his time at the chapel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fr. Silva strongly believes that Edghill has all the qualities he needs to continue succeeding in his music career. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI describe Ethan as faithful, flexible, open, receptive\u2026specifically his commitment I think that working here at the Newman Center in the music ministry has given him that foundation that he needs to be able to do his career in music,\u201d Fr. Silva said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Throughout Edghill\u2019s time at TAMUK, specifically in the Catholic Student Organization (CSO) Edghill has made friends who have watched the hard work and dedication he\u2019s poured into his heartfelt music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe\u2019s told me many things of what he\u2019s been through, you know personal things and I really see how it connects to the lyrics of his songs because there are things I\u2019ve gone through that are similar. It\u2019s amazing how close the lyrics match to what I went through and what he went through. I think it\u2019s honestly kind of amazing how he\u2019s able to put that into words,\u201d Altar server and friend of Edghill Bernardo Pendlton said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not a day has gone by that Edghill hasn\u2019t continued pursuing his love and passion for the art of music, as music is what allows Edghill to truly express himself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was really, really shy coming out of high school. I didn\u2019t have a lot of friends in high school. I was kind of secluded and was like \u2018what am I supposed to be doing here?\u2019 I would try different forms of art and nothing really stood out. I was like, \u2018man I don\u2019t really know what I want to do.\u2019 So, learning how to play guitar, sing and write down kind of what I was feeling and what I was thinking was what kind of took it off. Just telling stories is what I love about being a songwriter,\u201d the singer concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Local artist tells his story Inspired by his father who was once a country artist himself, Ethan Edghill has brought his talents to Texas A&M… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":10424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[264],"class_list":["post-10423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-features"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"authors":[{"term_id":264,"user_id":126,"is_guest":0,"slug":"matthew-roberts","display_name":"Matthew Roberts","avatar_url":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/1e435b79941bab17484fb9c9a660b0ad.jpg?ver=1776212082","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10427,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423\/revisions\/10427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10423"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=10423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}