BIO

At 10 years of age, I was encouraged to learn a musical instrument. I choose the guitar. My instructor insisted on teaching me songs I didn’t like listening to, much less learn to play. One day, a drunk wandered into the lesson studio and in no time my instructor and the drunk were in a fistfight. I felt bad for the instructor but happily, the incident turned into my ticket to quit guitar lessons.

While attending college, I was given a guitar for my birthday. I bought a laminate of chord charts and managed to learn to play two songs - Blackbird and a bluesy instrumental tune by Mississippi John Hurt. That’s it. Whenever I picked up the guitar, I played my 2-song repertoire and walked away.

One day, I got a piano. I taught myself to play and about a year later wrote, She’s Got My Heart. I took the song to a recording studio and had a blast watching the producer and the musicians record my song. I entered the song into a songwriting contest hosted by a local radio show. Out of hundreds of entries, my song took 2nd place.

Many years later, I saw an ad in a local paper for a Guitar Lab at the Modern Music Academy in San Luis Obispo, CA. Whoa! A guitar lab? I thought his might be my chance to learn a new song. I dropped in to meet the owners and found a fully equipped recording studio with performance stage. I found out the songs they used for instruction included the very stuff I listened to. I think I was the first student to arrive for class each and every week. Needless to say, I was inspired.

By the end of the first year, I had written and recorded my first CD, Out of Nowhere. Soon after, I had the good fortune to meet Jennifer Young, Travis Larson and Dale Moon of The Travis Larson Band. These guys are a
truly talented bunch of musicians. Travis has become my mentor, assisting me in production and teaching me to record with ProTools software. Today, I continue to write and record music. I am in the process of marketing my music to an international repertoire of television and film supervisors. Stay tuned for more!