Guitarist and producer who has been featured in Guitar Player magazine and has appeared on "Good Morning America." He is a voting member of the Recording Academy. Nicknamed "2Smooth," he has played at very notable venues around the U.S. and has toured internationally. He also is an Army veteran, having served our country to include two deployments to Iraq. He hopes to have his newest release out this year.
"It's always kind of difficult whenever you're trying to cross genres, but whenever you find that perfect pairing it's just, you have to roll with it."
"I'm always looking for somebody that may have something that just maybe needs the platform or a push to kind of get their stuff out there."
"Music was always there, always an outlet for me, so I never let it go."
"Driving across those different sand dunes I just felt like, this might be my calling. I just want to roll the dice and see what happens."
"If you have a jacked up attitude it's going to make people not want to work with you."
"I tell people a lot of times before we go on stage, if I'm MD'ing the situation, I have a 30-minute policy - no cell phones, no messages, no nothing 30 minutes prior to because sometimes you can get a jacked up message right before you go on the set and it changes your whole, because you're thinking about whatever you have to deal with before you go on the stage!"
"That changed my life because now I saw that I have a skill and that skill can literally open up many doors that I never thought."
"You be ready that way you don't have to get ready. If you stay ready you're always prepared."
"You just gotta kind of have this demeanor, like, okay, they may say No, but let me make the adjustments and keep moving forward. Don't let me be distracted, don't let me quit, let me encourage myself or be around people that I know can encourage me in order to be successful."
"I feel like my sound is like a pot of gumbo."
"Sin Decir"
"Puppy Love"