thesuicidesign:

This here is my good friend Kellin Quinn. Kellin is the frontman for a band called Sleeping With Sirens and I had the pleasure of meeting him last year when they hired me. When I first heard of Kellin and his band I have to admit I thought it was all a gimmick. Here is a guy that looks good, can sing high and is a father, kids will eat this up like crazy I thought but I couldn’t have been more wrong. Unlike the marketed products that labels make nowadays and disguise as “artist" Kellin is an extremely passionate individual, not only towards music but towards his fans, friends and family. I believe kellin understands the responsibilities that come with the exposure he has and is using it for good. From all the stories I could tell about kellin one that sticks to mind is from when we were on tour with Pierce The Veil. Before every single show on the Collide With The Sky tour Kellin would go to a local venue and play an acoustic set of about 3 songs and after do a meet and greet. He didn’t have to do this, it’s just something he thought would be nice to do for his fans (mind you he still has to go back to the other venue and play again). Anyway at almost every single one of these meet and greets he would have fans come up and tell him or give him letters saying how he has saved their lives. In several cases fans would come up and hand him the blades they would cut their wrist with and say “thanks to you I never need to use these again". I admit that’s a bit extreme but it just shows how much he’s helped kids. On tour their is two kinda of people, friends and tour friend. Tour friends are the people that after the tour disappear for ever and could care less about you. Friends are those that care to keep in contact and text you randomly saying “I miss you miami" I’m very humbled to call Kellin a friend and have him pose with the suicide sign. I love you amigo :)