Watauga Student Oliver Blain Produces His Own Music

Blain performs his song “My Heart” at the final WHS Band & Orchestra Concert of the 2025-2026 school year. Photo Credit: Ethan Reed.

Valentina Miranda-Castro, Staff Writer for The Spark

Students at Watauga High School express themselves through many mediums. Some students, like Oliver Blain, choose the medium of music as a way to leave their mark on the world.

“It started with me not being super musically inclined at all besides just singing harmony,” said Blain. “[My grandma] started giving me piano lessons. I took lessons with her for around 6 years before it turned into, 'Oliver doesn’t practice his music. [He] doesn’t seem to want to read music, so there’s not really a point of this.' So it made sense to just quit.” 

Even though Blain had decided to not continue his classical piano career, he never gave up on music itself.

“I just started dabbling,” said Blain. “I probably had like 10 or so little fun songs that I made just from [piano] scales and random little things. My mom said, ‘you should sing with your songs, you should try to do something like that.’  And so I wrote one for my mom. That was the first song I ever did.”

Since his first song for his mother, Blain has evolved his musical style and created more songs. He premiered one of his first songs, “My Heart,” at last year’s final WHS Band & Orchestra concert. 

“I like to call [my musical style] similar to Coldplay a lot of the time, at least specifically ‘My Heart,’” said Blain. “The vocal style is similar to Chris Martin, and there’s a lot of strings and build-up parts. Then at the same time you have an electric guitar and a rock sound.”

Blain has since begun working on producing an album and has recorded his songs in a professional studio. As Blain continues on his journey, he learns there’s more to music than he originally thought.

“I’ve got [an] Instagram account, and a TikTok page,” said Blain. “People say I need to make a YouTube now. Yeah, it’s just like promotions and then keep writing. My actual dream, it would be cool to be the next Chris Martin or something like that, but that's not how it works. First of all, I’ve got to work my butt off, and second of all, I’ve got to be in the right place at the right time.”

Listen to Oliver Blain's song "My Heart" by clicking on the video below.