How could it not?
Perhaps it's because what David Young does with his instrument, the recorder, the flute-like instrument that all of us started with in the 3rd or 4th grade,
playing two simultaneously in harmony - has never been done before.
Perhaps it's because so many listeners have had their lives touched by the angelic quality of his modern instrumental music.
Perhaps it's because this former rock and roll guitarist and singer decided to change his career midstream to create soothing semi-classical, ethereal, or as he calls it, "beautiful music" that is now played on hundreds of radio stations and airlines around the world.
Whatever the many reasons for his success, David Young has parlayed his talents into one of the phenomena of the music business - performing over 40 weeks a year worldwide, sellling 800,000 albums as of 2005, and his record company was started with his last 100 dollars.
"If you had told me 10 years ago that I'd be where I am now from playing the recorder, I would never have believed it".
All of this music comes from my heart and was created to give people a positive alternative, a sense of peace that makes life more enjoyable. I call it beautiful music because styles and their names come and go, but beautiful music will always be beautiful music."
- David Young