Growing up, I always wanted to be a doctor. The idea of being able to use my hands to help people always fascinated me. I always imagined that I’d be able to take care of all my family and friends. The unfortunate part about this story is that you’re currently reading my artist statement on my website, not sitting in a hospital bed listening to me tell you about the procedure I’m about to perform. Some of us were meant to help people in other ways.

    I want to make music that makes people stop and listen; music that moves in such a way that the listener’s natural internal rhythm causes their toes to tap, their bodies to sway, and their emotions to dance. I want to be able to impact the musical scene in such a way that it pushes it to do better, be more creative, to keep evolving. And more than anything I just want to have a good time doing it.

    Other than the births of all my nieces and nephews, catching my first wave, and hearing the first girl I fell in love with tell me she loved me, I have never felt anything that compares to the first time I heard someone sing along with one of my songs. They didn’t even notice they were doing it. It was amazing to me, and after that moment I was hooked. I knew that nothing else in life would give me a greater pleasure than making music, performing for people, and watching them sing along.

    Writing poetry and listening to music were my first loves and fascinations, so I guess songwriting was just a natural progression for me. I listened to so much music that when there was none, I would find myself filling in the silence with humming, tapping, and singing; anything to fill the void. The earliest songs I wrote were blues songs, the funniest part about that was, I had never listened to the blues. The guitarist in my first band introduced me, and to this day, every song I write has a little of the blues in it.

   With each collaboration, I find myself trying to expand my musical ability. I’m taking the guitar a little more seriously, and I’m trying to expand my vocal range. Playing solo for so long, it was easy to stay where I was comfortable. I push myself more, and my music has never sounded better. I love music and I love playing, and to me that’s what it’s all about