With song placements already this year in Samsung and Cadillac commercials, he is a Nashville-based singer, songwriter, guitar and piano player who has gotten tens of millions of streams on Spotify, with well over a half-million monthly listeners on that platform. He has done national headlining tours and has opened for the likes of the Zac Brown Band, Gavin DeGraw, and James Bay. He has appeared on “The Today Show” and on the MTV Europe Music Awards. Plus he has had songs in national ads and Super Bowl commercials. Already in 2020 he has released an EP and several singles.
"I thought, 'Man, we should really get a really big guitar player on this.' So I called my buddy at Sony and he said, 'Ya' know, I just signed Def Leppard, and maybe we can get Phil (Collen).' And so, he sent it to Phil and he loved it and so he sent us guitar parts back, like, two hours later, which was pretty cool."
"Everything I'm doing right now is over the Internet. So, I would say, if you're dealing with someone that is a little more inexperienced, then it's probably difficult. But, when you're dealing with these kind of people, they're going to do what they do."
"I did that with an engineer buddy of mine. That was right before everything shut down. So it's probably the last human interaction I've had for the last three months - except for my wife and daughter."
"It's probably the first of many 'Versions' EPs that are gonna come out because I'm an over thinker and an over producer and so I do a lot of versions of things."
"You've got plans and then, plans kind of happen to you."
"Samsung heard one of my eleven-year old demos and they loved it and they wanted to use it for an online campaign. And then they posted it online and it just kind of went crazy so they made it their worldwide campaign for the next three months."
"Obviously these are strange times. You don't know how your work's going to be impacted and your livelihood and living. But, somehow, like, this old song I wrote of, like, hope and people coming together and needing each other, like, kind of affected people in this moment and then people started using it on TikTok. And so, it's got, like, several million plays on TikTok."
"Your music will always find uses that you kind of didn't expect."
"The first thing is you have to make something with value. But then I think you've got to treat people as valuable on a human level because they think of you."
"I am the prototype for the guy that just will not go away."
"If I'm looking for drama I usually go to piano. If I'm looking for heart I usually go to guitar."
"If you can't tour successfully as a solo artist, like, headlining, it's good to get started with opening up for people because they're going to fill it up with their people."
"You can't create something personal by committee. That has to come from you. But you can, by committee, decide what it is you were trying to say or the best way to put it."
"All Day All Night"
"How Bad We Need Each Other"
** Bonus audio content with Marc Scibilia **