Derek Welsh has spent many years touring and writing and recording music.

In the corporate world, he has worked in all areas of the music business. Derek became interested in world blindness when he was asked by the Volunteer Eye Surgeons Association to write a song (Tommy's World) describing the need for a worldwide project to address the world's 20 million curable blind due to cataracts.

Welsh's latest publication, Strange Dreams, (Miami International Press) is a 157-page volume of poetry. He also wrote and taught the popular course, "Putting Your Words to Music" most recently at the National Writers Association Conference at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL.

Derek Welsh holds a BA in business from Auburn University. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, he currently lives in Tennessee and is actively touring.