Shane McLeay started in the music business, touring and recording with veteran gospel band Turn The Page in the 80's when he was only sixteen years old, he then went on to play in numerous bands over the last two decades also working on many albums during that time.
Odyssey is Shane’s first solo album and the break through single from the album, “Hold On” received rave reviews prior to its official release and debuted at No.1 on commercial radio station listener driven music charts. “Hold On” has also been well received internationally, especially in Canada where the song received extensive radio play resulting in unanticipated success in that country, all this before its official release. The album was coproduced with Shane, bass player Jason Brooks, guitarist Greg Nix and producers Peter Stevenson and Hamish McDonald. Paul Cook and Peter Bull were also heavily involved in the overall sound, "it was great working in the studio with the same guys who play live with me", commented Shane.
“Hold On” was used to promote the controversial Australian movie “Hobby Farm”, winner of the 2008 New York Film Festival. The films award winning producer Brad Diebert, creator and director of Hobby Farm along with his production crew filmed the clip for “Hold On” which was used to promote the movie Hobby Farm around the world.
Recently Shane has been writing songs for other artists projects and he has just signed on to write for a new Brad Diebert movie. Along with this Shane has announced his intentions to return to his fisrt love, gospel music. "I want to make a difference in this world, I really want to be a part of the solution and not the problem, venturing so far down the road of secular music has led me to the conclusion that unless what you are doing has an eternal value then what you are doing has no value", said Shane.
