I've lived in Chicago just about my entire life, learning every square inch of this magnificent city. It's not been a terribly easy life, but it's been a wonderfully blessed and accomplished life none the less....I started writing music around the age of 16, had a midi casio synth, pentium 90 computer that I built , and a Ar-16 drum machine...I started out, trying to figure out any possible method to record, arrange, multi-track harmonies, melodies, and eventually full blown polyphonic arrangements, something I never quite called a song, but a project. I didn't actually credit myself as a musician for some years to come. I never felt confident enough to play it for others, so it took me a while to start getting notes, and hooked up with the mentors that ultimately changed my life, and my understanding of song writing. I eventually went on to establish a writing style that focuses solely on melody, chord progressions, and harmonies that expressed not only how I felt at that time...but I tried to give others a unique look into the my soul...and communicate on a level that was quite often lost by words.
Boring Facts: I went to Thornridge High School from "94-"98 after graduating, I attended Columbia College for music composition, and soon found that to be impractical and expensive. So I continued my computer networking /administration career, which provided quite an excellent living. I've never stopped writing, especially when I was going through hell...which seems to be when I've gotten most recognition. I've written over 300 songs in the last 8 years, my most comfortable means of expression.
I started spinning records, trance mostly...was good at it, but at first it didn't sit well with me to steal what other people wrote for some strange reason. I later came to understand the importance in studying those records, the culture, what people loved to hear. Life has had it's ups and downs, yet it is from where all the emotion came to fuel my music. But that wasn't the end, by far...after the words, is where life really starts...
