I am classically trained in percussion but I specialized in the drums and have been teaching drums for over 30 years. I started of playing rock when I was 15 and graduated to progressive rock and then to fusion. When I later went back to college, I really got into jazz and fusion jazz like Weather Report, Ian Garbarek, Trilok Gurtu etc. That opened up many doors as to my musical spheres. I then started playing lots of fusion jazz. I never really thought about writing music but when I purchased my home recording studio, it inspired me to start writing. At first I tried writing jazz oriented material but that is not what came out. It was a tad frustrating as that was what I wanted to write. After a while, I realized that I had to go with what I heard and the rest is history.