Garth, born in Jamaica, West Indies, to Arlington and Fay Greene on June 8th, didn’t discover his abilities to sing and perform before an audience until well into his late teens. He began his musical odyssey as a child of about six years of age when he taught himself to play the piano.

Though he later took formal piano lessons, his natural talent for hearing musical cords and his love for creating them on the keyboard proved to be his undoing, as far as piano lessons were concerned anyway, because he discovered that his home-grown lessons made much better music than anything he was learning from the initial stages of formal piano training. This odyssey picks up again much later in life for as a freshman in the mid-seventies at Atlantic Union College, in South Lancaster, Massachusetts, he unexpectedly began his musical journey before a live audience as a member of “The Sons of the Master”, one of the finest male quartets to ever grace that campus. It included Garth Gabriel (yes, another Garth), the bass, who later went on to sing with the renowned Heritage Singers.

At about this time, Garth discovered his ability to rearrange and to teach music. It was a talent that came in quite handily as at about the same time, his younger brothers had begun a singing group in their home church, Jamaica Seventh-day Adventist Church. They called themselves the “Heralds of Joy” and it wasn’t long after that Garth would join forces with them and begin to use the talents that he had begun to discover at college. The union was a perfect match, garnering accolades throughout the New York Metropolitan area and surrounding states and eventually led to the production of their first album, “Go Tell It on the Mountain”.

Over the years, Garth has remained a strong member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and leading out musically wherever he has maintained his membership. In New Rochelle, New York, shortly after becoming a member at the New Rochelle Seventh-day Adventist Church, he joined the Chancel Choir (the church’s senior choir) and was eventually asked to be the director of the choir and the church’s director of music, positions he held for six years. He previously had directed the church’s youth choir and in the mid-eighties started the New Rochelle Men’s Chorale, an a capella group of about fifteen men with whom Garth expanded his talents of re-writing music to his own unique tastes. The group remains popularly active today. After moving to Orlando, Florida, he again lead out in the music ministry there as director of the Altamonte Springs Seventh-day Adventist Church’s music department and as director of its senior choir and of its own Altamonte Springs Male Chorus, also formed by Garth.

Garth has been influenced musically over the years by such groups as Earth, Wind and Fire with Maurice White, his favorite secular group of all time, and the original Breath of Life Quartet and the talented musical arrangements of Shelton Kilby and the first tenor of Walter Arties, and today enjoys with admiration the work of Take Six. His favorite Bible texts are the Bible’s council about love, which can be found in 1 Corinthians chapter 13, and his mission in life is to one day sing with that greatest of choirs in the heavenly kingdom, but until then, he wants to make beautiful music here on earth, sharing his love for musical harmony with all who can appreciate it for as long as he possibly can. He believes that the people he has teamed with to create 7th Element, his brothers, Kevin, Darren and Curt Greene along with Marc Dwyer and David Glover, two extremely talented individuals with long lists of accolades in their own rights, will only foster that goal.

Garth is joined by his wife who has been by his side since 1981, the former Felice Renee Earle (Renee) of New Rochelle, New York. Their union has produced two children, Marc and Arielle Greene.