I was born and raised in Grand Rapids MI. At age eighteen I went off and joined the Marine Corps for five years. While in the Marine Corps I lived in Mississippi for nine months, Japan for a year, California for three years, and Kuwait for three months. When I got back from Kuwait I met my beautiful wife Kate and her son Kilian and are living happily ever after. I started playing the piano at age six and was never a very good piano student. I hated reading notes and playing to a metronome so I was always just an average sort of piano player. At about age fourteen I started making up my own music. It all started with a simple version of song number 7 Humble Beginnings; and every year it kept getting more and more complex. Finally it was time to put my CD out. If you like it please I beg of you pass the word onto others.