“Until I Found You” by Stephen Sanchez

For starters, “Until I Found You” is based on Stephen Sanchez’s real life, as implied when he identifies one “Georgia” as the addressee in the very-first line. As Stephen has described this piece, it is inspired by an earlier era in which things weren’t going well for him at all. Then in came the addressee, the one bright spot in the equation. But being who he was at the time, Sanchez pushed her away.

Afterwards, they did not deal with each other for a spell. But then, when the pair finally did reconnect, it was as if they had never broken up to begin with.

And some of those sentiments do successfully come through in this lyrically-terse piece. Or rather, the way they are organized isn’t necessarily in a linear fashion.

For instance in the first verse, Stephen is telling Georgia that ‘he’ll never let her go again, like he did’, thus revealing that he has already messed up with her in the past. But then, the chorus that follows obviously harps back to the beginning of the relationship, i.e. when he first “found her” and him remembering how doing so mitigated his depression.

The second verse then solidifies the notion that this is a relationship that has been rekindled, after the vocalist basically dumped the addressee the first time around. So it’s as if the verses are in the present but the chorus the past, in a manner of speaking. Or another way the latter can be potentially interpreted is, after having lost Georgia and regaining her hand, now Stephen truly appreciates her more than ever. But describing this song in simplest terms, you can tell that the addressee is someone the vocalist truly loves and values.

Stephen Sanchez

Stephen Sanchez is a singer from California who hustled as an amateur, social-media based musician and had been active in that capacity at least at least since 2019.  Thus far he has one album under his belt, an EP titled “What Was, Not Now” (2021), which is backed by Republic Records. And at the time “Until I Found You” was officially released on 1 September 2021, via the same label, Stephen was 18 years old.

Thus as of this writing Sanchez has a few songs in this discography. But his biggest hit by far, as in the tune that put him on the map, has been “Until I Found You”. For example, currently this song is one of the most popular songs in America.

Music Video of “Until I Found You”

By his own admittance, Sanchez’s artistry has been influenced by mid-20^th century musical acts like Elvis Presley (1935-1977), Nat King Cole (1919-1965) and Frank Sinatra (1915-1998). And he turned that point of inspiration into the motif upon which the music video to “Until I Found You” is visualized. 

In keeping with that theme, director Daniel Iglesias Jr. even employed what appears to be a professional Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) lookalike in Jeri Mae James to co-star on the clip.

Some More Interesting Facts

There is also an official remix to this song. On this remix, Sanchez teams up with another concurrently up-and-coming musician who ascended from the social-media circuit named Em Beihold.

This track was written by Sanchez. Its producers are Ian Fitchuk and Konrad Snyder.

The intended addressee of this song, Georgia Brown, serves as its background vocalist. More interesting to note is that Georgia is currently Sanchez’s real-life girlfriend.