Career
He currently is a staff writer for Carnival Music in Nashville, Tennessee. Derik has also released three European Parliament"s with Carnival Recording Company. Whether Report (2012), Leaning On The Rain (2012), Mockingbird"s Mouth (2014). Growing up in Alcoa, Tennessee Hultquist split his time between athletics and music
Derik went on to attend Kentucky Wesleyan College where he played goalie for the men"s soccer team
However, after an injury sidelined him, he began to focus all of his energy on songwriting. Upon graduation, on a whim, he migrated to Nashville.
He took on flexible jobs (legislative legal clerk, server, handyman, paperboy, pharmacy technical valet, and others), which didn’t merit much income, but did allow him time enough to write everyday. From this writing spawned the self-released, Anthologies and Blue Blues.
Hultquist eventually got the attention of Carnival Music, a publishing company opened by Travis Hill and producer Frank Liddell (Miranda Lambert, David Nail, Eli Young Band).
Hultquist was signed to a publishing deal with Carnival Music and a recording contract with Carnival Recording Company. With Carnival he has released three more European Parliament"s: Whether Report (2012), Leaning On The Rain (2012), and Mockingbird"s Mouth (2014).
