A singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music director, and record producer who is releasing a full-length album at the end of summer and a video for the title track, featuring work by a GRAMMY-winning mix engineer who is also working on another album being recorded, which is likely to be a double album in 2025. He has performed internationally and with some very notable names in music. Through Gold Record Productions he has produced four artists with a singer that he is in a duo with. Together they did a music video that has over 100 thousand views on YouTube.
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“I brought the idea to my writing partner, and we wrote this song, the lyrics, on a plane, going to Washington, DC. So, by the time we landed, we had the rest of the lyrics in place, the melodies, and then we did the video.”
“I like to get inspired when I write, especially, I mean, I live near the ocean now, but I do love getting out into nature and getting inspired to write songs.”
“I was in a group… and we would tour around. It was jazz funk with horns. It was a great band to play drums for. And we would tour England and we actually got to record on, Richard Branson from Virgin Records, he had a barge in London and a studio, and we recorded there.”
“That was my introduction to Duran Duran. So, it just worked out that my schedule with Limahl was coming to an end and the management asked Limahl's management if I'd be able to step in and do some things with them. And so, they gave me a cassette to learn the song and then I ended up with Duran Duran. And it was pretty crazy because going into a limousine and screaming girls and this whole high life of hotels and it was another world.”
“I actually went to Italy, and I was working in the Christian gospel scene, which wasn't very developed back then. So, I was producing artists and worked in recording studios. So, I lived there for three years, and I really loved Italy.”
“Singing in church is where I really got better as a singer… My faith has really guided me and been part of what I do musically.”
“In 2010… I had the songs… I had a manager… and I was touring around and performing the songs and recording… and I was diagnosed with colon cancer.”
“No matter the hardships you go through, if you have a dream for music and you want to reach people, you want to communicate, then you just keep going.”
“I like to work with albums because I feel like it is an artistic statement and a group of songs that you wrote at a certain time and that work together well.”
“Music is so powerful and so I really respect it and try to use it for the good of people.”
“Music is an emotional thing for me, and it's always been cathartic and very healing, so I try to use music in that manner.”
“We were both hired to lead worship at an event and so I met Lyn there and then she had been on the road with Kathy Mattea… she was a background vocalist and she (had) sung with the Glenn Miller Orchestra and what struck me about Lyn was she has a four-octave range… She had lived in Nashville for seven years, so she understood songwriting.”
“For America”
“Forgive and Walk Free”