Music has been part of my life for as long as I can remember.
I grew up in a radio station. My dad was a radio DJ, and I spent many weekends with him at the station, often with the production facilities practically to myself. While other kids were hanging around living rooms or backyards, I was surrounded by microphones, carts, records, tapes, headphones, studio gear, and the constant feeling that sound itself was something you could shape.
Music was part of the furniture of life.
I listened to everything: rhythm and blues, classic rock, country, folk music, big band recordings, old standards, 1950s and 1960s pop, and the smooth classic vocal music people often associate with Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and the Rat Pack. I also grew up hearing classical music from composers like Beethoven, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky, along with theater music, Broadway cast recordings, The Phantom of the Opera, The Sound of Music, and even the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
That kind of musical upbringing leaves a mark. It teaches you that every style has its own kind of truth. Some songs tell the story straight. Some hide it under charm. Some are built for dancing, some for remembering, some for grieving, and some for making a person feel less alone for three minutes at a time.
Country music became my first real love. Growing up around Houston in the 1980s and 1990s put me close to one of country radio’s great eras, and FM 100.3 KILT was a big part of that world for me. That blend of storytelling, melody, memory, humor, and plainspoken emotion still shapes how I think about songs.
What’s Erv up to this year?
With the rise of AI-assisted music tools, I have found a new way back into that lifelong love. I use AI music not as a shortcut around creativity, but as a new instrument for writing, producing, experimenting, and building artist worlds. These projects let me explore songs, voices, fictional histories, emotional arcs, and entire catalogs in ways that would have been impossible for me earlier in life.
Some of this music is released under my own name. Some belongs to fictional artists I have created and developed. Some exists as part of a larger creative universe connected to Forgotten Seals Press and ThrumFeed LISTEN. All of it comes from the same place: a lifelong fascination with what songs can carry.
Current Music Projects
Amanda Vale
Amanda Vale is my most developed AI-assisted artist project. She is a fictional Texas Gulf Coast rock artist with a full creative history, album timeline, visual identity, and growing catalog of songs.
Her music moves through alt-rock, pop-rock, cinematic rock, and mature singer-songwriter territory. Amanda’s story begins in the 1990s and follows a long arc of fame, loss, survival, reinvention, and late-career creative renewal. Amanda Vale Music serves as the main hub for her artist world, catalog notes, releases, and related material.
Stream Now —> On ThrumFeed Listen!!
Jenny Vale
Jenny Vale is a newer artist project connected to Amanda’s larger story world. Her music is still developing, but her sound leans toward country-pop, roots-pop, road songs, barroom stories, family memory, and emotionally direct songwriting.
Jenny’s catalog is still early, but she represents a different side of the same creative universe: quieter, more rooted, and more country-leaning than Amanda.
Listen To Jenny:
On Suno:
https://suno.com/@jennyvale
On ThrumFeed: https://listen.thrumfeed.com/artists/jenny-vale
Erv Lenzy
Some music projects are released under my own name as Erv Lenzy. These songs tend to sit closer to personal reflection, adult pop-rock, roots-influenced songwriting, and the kind of plainspoken emotional storytelling that first made me love music in the first place.
The songs available on major streaming platforms are do not feature my own singing voice, but an AI vocal. This will soon change
Suno recently introduced a vocal-model tool that allow creators to use their own singing voice. Oddly enough, that means the Suno tracks are the ones that sound more like me as a vocalist. If you want to hear music using my actual vocal identity, that is the best place to start.
Listen to Erv Lenzy on SUNO
ThrumFeed LISTEN
ThrumFeed LISTEN is the broader listening and discovery hub for my AI-assisted music projects. Over time, it will collect artist pages, profiles, songs, playlists, and related music from across this creative universe.
Where to Listen
Erv Lenzy on Suno: https://suno.com/@ervlenzy
Amanda Vale on Suno: https://suno.com/@ervtvmusic
Jenny Vale on Suno: https://suno.com/@jennyvale
Amanda Vale Music: https://amandavalemusic.com/
ThrumFeed LISTEN
Listen.ThrumFeed.com
A Note About AI Music
AI-assisted music has opened a new creative chapter for me.
For me, the work is still about taste, revision, storytelling, emotional honesty, and knowing when a song finally feels like itself. The tools are new, but the goal is old: find the song, shape the voice, and let the feeling land honestly.
That is what this page is for. It is a map to the music I am making, the artists I am building, and the worlds those songs belong to.
I’d use this as the actual page body. Then, for WordPress/SEO, I’d set:
SEO title:
Music by Irv Lindsay
Slug:
music
Meta description:
Explore music by Irv Lindsay, including AI-assisted music projects, Amanda Vale, Jenny Vale, Suno channels, Amanda Vale Music, and ThrumFeed LISTEN.
Menu label:
Music
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