Justin Utley

Utah Native and ex-Mormon singer/songwriter Justin Utley has been intimately involved with the music scene and performing arts since the impressionable age of seven. He was a featured performer at the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics and earned numerous awards, including “Best Singer and Songwriter” by Salt Lake City Weekly. The Utah native also composed and performed the theme song to the Emmy Award-winning PBS movie The Shadow of Light. Theatrically, his credits include a seven-month U...

Utah Native and ex-Mormon singer/songwriter Justin Utley has been intimately involved with the music scene and performing arts since the impressionable age of seven. He was a featured performer at the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics and earned numerous awards, including “Best Singer and Songwriter” by Salt Lake City Weekly. The Utah native also composed and performed the theme song to the Emmy Award-winning PBS movie The Shadow of Light. Theatrically, his credits include a seven-month Utah regional run as “Joseph” in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2001-2002) and the Utah premiere of Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida (2005). Utley coveted the bejeweled role of leading man “Radames” in the multiple award-winning Broadway musical. Later, he would leave Utah, his family, and his Mormon-inherited religion behind, come out as an openly gay man, relocate to Manhattan and debut in the New York City theater scene as “Tommy Dautry” in the musical Our Country (2010). The show garnered the Best Musical and Best Actor awards for the Planet Connections Theater Festivity. Utley released his first-ever nationally distributed album Runaway on Kolob Records in November 2005 and then, in 2006, a remix EP entitled Hold You + Remixes was released in April 2006. In June of 2010, Utley released Stand for Something – a single written in response to the LGBT struggle for marriage equality, for the awareness of teen homelessness, and suicide prevention. The single was meant to inspire everyone to take action towards securing equality and community awareness in America and is being performed at equality-based events, concerts, and fundraisers around the country. Proceeds from the sale of "Stand For Something" go directly to equality-based non-profits and community awareness centers locally and nationally.