My musical journey didn’t quite start the way most people think it did. I inherited most of musical tastes from my brother and in middle school I was listening primarily to hip-hop artists. I began writing rap lyrics and continued to write and perform rap until well into high school. It was over the course of those four years that I started to experiment with the guitar but I was never any good at it, so I gave up on it pretty quickly. Once I graduated from high school, and ironically enough all the opportunities to take guitar classes in school had passed me by, I decided to give it another chance. The lyrics I was writing were already beginning to take a folksier, poppier turn.

After high school I bought my first guitar. It was a bright pink Yamaha electric guitar. I was obsessed with playing lead and wanted to master the art of “face-melting guitar solos.” Luckily, that phase was over quickly and I focused all my energy on songwriting for the next few years (and picked up my first and only acoustic guitar along the way). I honed my craft at my friends’ parties in basements and backyards, at open mic nights, and eventually a string of full sets at local lounges and coffee shops. In 2007, I started recording my first EP of original music and I completed and released it the following year. It was called the window ep and it was released on July 18th, 2008.

Since then I’ve been doing nothing but writing and performing. I finally began recording my first full album in late 2011 and I hope to have it finished by the summer of 2012. I would love to perform and record as a full-time job, but at the end of the day, I play music because it’s just plain good for my health.