photo by Darin Back

How did you get into making music, and how did arts education (or lack thereof) affect you and your music?

Ever since I bought my guitar at age thirteen I’ve been creative in coming up with my own songs. My folks played a lot of music around the house, especially The Beatles so I grew up on the late 1960s early seventies music. Eddie Van Halen made me want to play guitar. Jimi Hendrix made me want to explore the instrument even fuller with passion. I played trumpet in middle school and was always in choir. The most interesting thing to me was learning to listen to tonal relationships and how the part that I was singing and playing sounded with what I was hearing around me. I learned that my part was part of creating something as a whole. Everybody played there part and it created something wonderful.

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