“Bird of Paradise” is a single by Dan Whitehouse. It is an intimate, psychologically unsettling performance by Dan and pianist David O’Brien, featuring piano and vocals and recorded live without overdubs.

Co-written in Barcelona with Jason Tarver after a bird-of-paradise flower sparked a conversation about the commercialization of beauty, the song uses a fictional first-person encounter to explore loneliness, desire, and sexual alienation, without offering any simple resolution. An endlessly curious and award-winning singer-songwriter, Dan Whitehouse is constantly searching for something new. And the single “Bird of Paradise” is proof of that.

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