Some people are born rock stars.

Glen Rose junior and singer/songwriter David Dulcie may have been one even earlier.

"I started listening to music before I was born," David said. He said his parents would play James Taylor through headphones placed around his mother's stomach.

"I popped out singing," David said.

When he was 6 years old David began piano lessons and continued until he was 12. At 14 he picked up a guitar for the first time and had written his first song "Timeless Hope" by 15, a song he said he still plays.

David didn't become serious as a songwriter until his junior year in high school when he started playing long sets at The Coffee Beanery, a local coffee shop.

"They made me play two- hour sets," he said. "So I had to write a lot of songs really quickly because I hated going there and only playing 10 songs like three times."

By his third week playing at the cafe, David said he had written about 40 songs.

David's brother, Baylor freshman Matt Dulcie, recalled falling asleep while listening to his brother practice.

"David would stay up working on new music, oftentimes gaining inspiration from James Taylor, Dan Fogelburg and Jack Johnson and continuing into the early hours of the morning," he said.

However, starting college slowed things down until about a year ago when he auditioned and earned a spot on the first Uproar Records album, featuring his song "Be No More." David, along with accompanying violinist Ben Gagne, was also picked as one of the five new Uproar Records artists for this year's album.

David said being a part of the program has helped take him outside his comfort zone by expanding his songwriting style.

"I've started exploring blues beats and jazz riffs," he said. "I wrote this short song that ended up pretty good and I felt good about it. It's different and uncomfortable and magical all at the same time. I think it's going to be so much fun putting a crazy cool group of instruments and stuff together and playing a song that's loud and rocking."

Dulcie said Uproar is going to help him open doors to learn with other musicians and understand more songwriting techniques.

"David has grown a lot as an artist in a year," Dulcie's Uproar manager Garrett Burnett said. "He is looking forward to getting outside of the box with his music this year and he has some great ideas and talent to bring to the table."

David doesn't know what role songwriting is going to play in his future, adding that law school is his career safety net.

It wasn't until last spring with the death of friend and fellow Baylor student Jordan Wilson, a Conway, Ark. sophomore, who supported David's music, that songwriting became a career possibility.

"His planning to help me out with everything made me think it was worth it to pursue music myself," David said. "Maybe make something real out of it."

Fans of David can catch him at the Uproar new artist showcase at 7 p.m. Oct. 24 at Common Grounds. Tickets are $5, and the concert is followed by a dance party.

"[David] is going to work hard to pursue his music and grow and learn with every step he takes," Burnett said. "He's excited about getting more performances this year, and his fans should stay tuned because they are in store for a great show with the new music he's written."