“One of the decade's leading balladeers”—AllMusic.com
The only way for a story to progress is to turn the page. John Ondrasik—the songwriter and performer known as the platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated Five For Fighting—knows this well. In the two decades since his first major single, "Superman (It's Not Easy)," the artist has both evolved and come back around full circle.
To date, Five For Fighting has released six studio LPs, including the platinum-certified America Town and The Battle for Everything and the top-10 charting Two Lights, along with an EP and live albums. Ondrasik has penned major hits, including the chart-topping "100 Years," "The Riddle," "Chances," "World," and "Easy Tonight," which have earned tens of millions of streams and place him as a top-10 Hot Adult Contemporary artist for the 2000s. The reflective "100 Years" has joined "Superman (It's Not Easy)" as part of the American Songbook and continues to stand the test of time at weddings, birthdays, graduations, memorials, and many a home video. Five For Fighting's music has also been featured in more than 350 films, television shows, and commercials, including the Oscar-winning The Blind Side, Hawaii Five-O, The Sopranos, and the CBS drama Code Black. Most recently, his song with the biggest sticking power is the powerful, "Blood on My Hands," a protest song that takes a non-political, moral stance against the 2021 United States chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.