Deka Records aquire the talents of Curtis Sutton.

Sutton, a North Carolina native, mixes humor and seriousness when explaining the roots of his debut CD “Songs  for the Soul, From a Dream Deferred." "All my life I've had to fight ...," he says. "Oops, sorry. That line's from 'The Color Purple.' " More seriously, he says this CD is a step "toward fulfilling a childhood dream" -- a dream delayed when he decided to focus his career on medicine rather than music. Sutton attended undergraduate and medical school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received radiology residency and neuroradiology fellowship training at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.  He subsequently taught at the Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans off and on for many years and has been in private practice as a neuroradiologist in Houston, Seattle and New Orleans, where he now lives. Though medicine has been his career, music has remained a key foundation of his life. "I suppose that this project has been a labor of love, and has served as a sorely needed retreat from the day-to-day frantic pace of being a private-practice neuroradiologist at an extremely busy hospital," he says. "My dream of becoming a doctor has been fulfilled, and now is the time for my dream deferred." He points out similarities between good medicine and good music.  Both, he says, "offer a way to sustain us and a chance to help others." "We need hope that we will all relearn how to love and care for each other," he says. Sutton's musical style is versatile, although he is especially drawn to "the American songbook -- the American standards."  They have "some of the greatest lyrics and are definitely a challenge to sing," he says.

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