It was a cold Wednesday morning in March, that same year "Around the World in Eighty Days" would win 5 Oscars, and just moments after his birth his arrival into this world was brought to light on one of North Carolina's earliest television stations located in the Piedmont Triad community. Only 9 years earlier WFMY was one of only 66 FM radio stations in the United States.

Soon after his birth he was swept away to Florida where he would spend his toddler years listening to music his aunt would play on her guitar and the stories his uncle and friends would tell about the bright lights of Las Vegas and the entertainment business.

By age 9 he had recorded a single about his girlfriend and played rhythm guitar in a rock band. He later went on to write 3 books and had a short story featured in an educational journal and was still just in Junior High.

He began traveling back and forth from California to North Carolina to spend time with his father on the West Coast and on the East Coast with his mother. While in California in the mid-seventies he began managing rock bands and recording his own music. He formed his first record company is 1978 then in April of 1997 sold off controlling interest in his music business and bought an entertainment company. In 2003 he reorganized his own entertainment and production company and renamed it Across the Canvas Productions.

Somewhere between all this he had a popular college radio song Rage in 1979, a popular rock radio song Breaking Rope in 1982, and a well-known soundtrack CD Broken Rocking Chair in 2001. He starred in The Dash Show television series from 1999 to 2004. He has appeared on stages throughout the USA for more than 60 years. He is also an award-winning writer, poet, artist, and educator.

Nowadays he spends his time working on his photography, making music, writing, producing, and directing the long running entertainment video journal Blank Surfaces. The program, now in its 20th season, highlights talents from in front of and behind the cameras from around the world and various other projects for Across the Canvas Productions including, recording music, working on new songs for the return of The Dash Show, and creating a series of shorts for promotional purposes. In 2017 Lance Britt was named director for the Pleasure Island Conversations series. In January 2018 Grand Master Dean Pyles’ Team P.V.T began their No Room 4 Racism World Tour. Lance has been a member of the team since 2009.

Addition information may be found athttp://acrossthecanvas.com and https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3149934/