I was born in June of 1971 in Providence Rhode Island.  I have two great younger brothers and loving parents  with  a the best childhood!  We lived in a nice neighborhood with many kids our age and were always playing outside with whims of basketball, wiffleball, Manhunt or tag and riding mini bikes, go carts and then upgrading to on to dirt-bikes later on.  Video games were around starting with Atari 2600 and although I did play them when I was a kid I never was all that interested in them.  I found that I would rather be doing something creative. 

    My creative mind started at about seven years old by taking perfectly working appliances, tools or electronics and tearing them apart to see how they worked but also creating something new out of them.  It would drive my dad crazy!  I also loved communication;  Two-way radio, phones, intercoms...whatever.  I remember destroying my dad's Realistic tape recorder (sorry dad!) and making it into a whole house intercom/PA system.  Wires were everywhere!  Repurposing things was another favorite past time for me. I recall taking an old remote control car and making it into a remote window shade controller.    I once caught my bed sheets on fire trying to make an electric heater out of a few springs, a rheostat and an electrical ballast box.  Yikes!.

    Electrical, electronics, computers and wanting to understand how things worked came very natural to me.  So much so that I create several businesses over the years.  From automotive electronics and diagnostics to computers sales, services and development.  This of course was later on in life.  Like my early twenties.

    The music interests started pretty early...maybe about eight years old.  I started off just listening to pop radio in the seventies. American Top 40 I guess is when I really realized how powerful music can be when it comes to emotions.  One song that comes to mind was Foreigner's 1981 "Waiting For a Girl Like You".  I was ten years old when that was released.  I still love that song and it still makes me feel something!

    At about this time my dad was interested in taking organ lessons and purchased an organ.  I spend more time on this organ than he did!  I really liked making up "songs" by ear.  He eventually upgraded a year or two later to a better organ and I continued to play his organ until I asked for a keyboard for Christmas one year.  My brother and I received a Yamaha PSS-170.  I would play my keyboard everyday. Both of us would make up tunes and play together, one played the melody and the other the drums or bass.  After a while my brother lost interest and bought an electric guitar. I ended up with his keyboard so I joined the two keyboards together (physically and electrically) so I would have double the sounds.  A year or so later, I bought a few high end Casio keyboard models and a PSR Yamaha keyboard.   I build a rack out of PVC piping to hold three keyboards and a HiFi Stereo VCR for recording my final mix and  used a dual tape dubbing deck and a smaller 12 channel mixer. I starting taking things a bit more seriously so I purchase a $2400 General Music S2 Turbo Music Processor.  Eventually I met a friend Todd, that was a musician. and was invited to his home for a Halloween party.   By that time I was in my 24 years old.

    This is when things really changed for me.  He had a personal studio.  In this studio was at least 12 classic keyboards/synths and a Roland stage piano previously owned by John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band..    I learned about MIDI and played a few of my "tunes" for him.  He encouraged me to learn piano forte .  He said "you have it kid"...so I bought my first pro stage piano.  The Yamaha P200.   At this time my business was doing well so I could afford to spend the $4000 these two keyboard set me back.  From this point on I started taking things much more seriously.  I taught myself techniques, music theory and learned some popular songs from Billy Joel, Joshua Kaddison and others.  By learning these songs I started too see how cords, keys and other things that make up music were put together.  From there I just kept plugging along.   I purchased a bunch of professional gear from mixing consoles, mics and audio monitors to a Digital Audio Workstation and built some computers.  It was this time where I wanted to write real music with lyrics but I wasn't sure if my voice would cut it.  

    I took an 18 year hiatus where I didn't write or play hardly at all.  I moved into a home with my ex girlfriend in 2007,  built a studio but never finished it or wrote a thing in it.  We broke up in 2019 and for the first time in 16 years I lived alone.   Only in 2020 did I start revisiting my old song catalog feeling more motivated to complete what I started.  Unfortunately I ran into a life changing series of health issues that cause me to almost walk away from life, not just music.  Mental illness has been a problem for me since I was a eighteen.  When this was combined with all the other problems I felt deflated and hopeless.  In 2010 my ex-girlfriend and I purchased a Bernese Mountain Dog  named Tungsten. He helped me tremendously. I train him as a certified emotional therapy dog.  He changed the way I looked at things and comforted me and nearly everyone he met.  I miss him greatly and feel like I need to get another dog because there is something about a dog like Tungsten that really helped me keep it together.  I'm still struggling with many of these problems but I'm seeing some light at the end of my tunnel with some new treatment.  Only recently have I felt like I could try and start over.  I mean start over on everything - music, working for myself again and getting back to doing the things that made me happy when I was younger.   Life isn't easy...but I'm trying hard to not let it defeat me.

    As I mentioned, I've walked away from music many times over the years.  Always because of my lack of consistency in my voice due to reflux disease.  My body seems to go through ups and downs where the problem will exist for months and months or even years then go away for a week or two up to a few months.  Because of this condition I either have to wait and do nothing while my throat ruins my vocal control or try my best to sing anyway with the help of technology.  I despise this method as it a acts as a crutch, but it's either this or walk away from music completely. It bothers me at lot to hear myself compensating for this medical issue but it is, what it is.   The most difficult thing to accept is no matter how passionate I am and how much effort and time put into it, my issues still have a big effect on the vocal outcome of my music and there is seemingly nothing I can do about it.  Endless doctors, meds and faults hopes later, I'm still not able to fix it.   

   Not being consistent is everything and has stopped me from playing live in front of people and doing public music events. This  bothers me to my core.  If it wasn't for the support I have received from my family and friends Jeannette, Brian, Todd and several others I would have walked away from music.  So thank you all for the on going support.