Ryan Hayes, half of Midas Whale, grew up inColville. (Full-size photo)(All photos) <\/p>\n
Once upon a time, there was a young man named Ryan who left the small town of Colville to travel the world, and then became an acclaimed folkmusician. <\/p>\n
Well, thats the story in anutshell. <\/p>\n
When 16-year-old Ryan Hayes left his hometown, he had no idea that in the next 11 years, he would accomplish what most never accomplish, and that the world would know aboutit. <\/p>\n
He would travel the world as a missionary and as a professionalgeologist. <\/p>\n
He would write and produce anopera. <\/p>\n
And he would form a musical duo, Midas Whale, appear on the national television show The Voice, and record analbum. <\/p>\n
But as it happens, hedid. <\/p>\n
On the tail of a two-year missionary assignment to Ecuador as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Hayes found himself inschool. <\/p>\n
I was going to school in Rexburg, Idaho, studying to be a geologist, Hayes said. He comes from a long line of scientists; his father is a chemical engineer. On the side, I was writing a rockopera. <\/p>\n
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