Conversations with Glenn Stanton

Today we’d like to introduce you to Glenn Stanton.

Hi Glenn, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
I went to college to play football at Ohio Northern University without really knowing what I was going to study. I ended up receiving a scholarship for musical theater and became the first football player to carry that major. While I was there, I also was the front man for a rock group that managed to make a few radio stations. Needless to say, it was a very unique college experience.

I left music after college to focus on acting, starting my career in Chicago. After I began to book television there, I made the move to Los Angeles to pursue film and television fully. I was fortunate enough to find a good amount of success booking shows like Chicago fire, 911 and The Walking Dead, to name a few. When the industry took a major downturn in the last few years, I found myself feeling hopeless and devoid of purpose.

In the middle of that, last year, I picked up my guitar and started writing music again, and felt like I had found my purpose all over again. I begin performing under the artist name “Six String Guillotine.

My music started to takeoff faster than I ever thought it would. Even though I am still acting, I feel as though I have full agency over my voice with my music. Combining outlaw country and soul. My voice comes from my messaging in speaking to the very inequalities that country music used to regularly speak to.

Fame is never something that I have strived for. I’m in a place in my personal and artistic journey where I care far less about being known and a whole lot more about being heard. That is what I’m finding in my music right now. I’m not interpreting somebody else’s work. I’m giving my whole heart and my full voice. To the very things I believe in.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
It’s been incredibly hard. From the strikes in the film industry to the tech giants destroying the way we can make a living both as actors and musicians. It’s caused me many times to question my own purpose. Even though you know that voice that’s telling you, “you’re a failure and you’re not good enough“ is a lie, it doesn’t change the fact that it’s, at times, the loudest voice you hear.

Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I have a film coming out this summer titled, “Hacked: A Double Entendre of Rage Fueled Karma”

I will also have more music releasing this summer and will also be playing several festival and shows throughout the West Coast!

We’d love to hear about any fond memories you have from when you were growing up?
Learning about poetry from my grandmother. It was my first artistic expression. My grandmother knew I was emotionally struggling and didn’t know where to put it. It definitely changed my life.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: Sixstringguillotine
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61583198970783
• Spotify: https://spotify.link/XYQ2eKvhXXb

Image Credits
Armando Acevedo
Chava Florendo
Bowen Moreno