Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor who was even a radio DJ. He just released a five-song EP on November 15th, his second EP release of the year, and he has more new music coming in 2025. He has performed at notable venues ranging from Rockwood Music Hall to the House of Blues to the Viper Room and even sang in Rome at the Vatican! His music resume also includes having composed music for Hollywood films, including a song that was sung by Celine Dion. With clearly a lot to say musically, his catalog includes an EP last year and three EPs in 2022.
“I think the way creativity works is you really don't know the end from the beginning.”
“The difficult times in our life can reveal us to ourselves sometimes.”
“I've started songs and in the middle of writing ‘em, I would hit that verse or that bridge or whatever … and I'd realize, ‘Oh! This is a better song than the song I was writing,’ and then I'll write a completely different song based on the four lines that I found several verses in.”
“I'm a songwriter who can play guitar and I'm a songwriter who can play piano… if it has to be an electric guitar, there's a whole extra color palette that's available to you and I don't know how to really take advantage of that, so you bring in somebody that does.”
“The world had moved to internet music more than physical copies of music and so to release an entire album, to me, I didn't want songs I cared about to get lost because they were one of 12 songs or 10 songs. I wanted, ‘Let's focus on these four or five songs’.”
“One of the things I learned by doing radio for many years is people generally listen for about 20 minutes at a time. And in that 20 minutes of driving time that they're listening they want to hear songs they know and, radio stations, that's why they keep playing the same 30 songs over and over because you don't know which 20 minutes you're driving, and you want to hear one or two songs you know.”
“I have two jobs, and my first job is to get all the music that I have in my head and that I hear in my head out of my head and written down. And the next job, which is harder, is get it out of my living room. And part of getting it out of my living room is maybe tied into the first job as well but I've got to get it recorded because I can't play it for you unless it's recorded.”
“In high school I talked my way into getting a radio job on the local radio station. They played all the top 40 and Rock and Roll records… so that gave me a chance to really wade into paying attention to what good songs were and what hit songs were. All of that gave me a way to meet guys in the record companies over time through the radio station work and once I had met enough guys in the Los Angeles record company scene I thought, I’ll move to Los Angeles, and I'll use my radio background to write songs. I want to write songs, and I think I've listened to and paid enough attention to what songs are and the record company guys already like me and so they backed me up.”
“I worked midnight to 5 (am) on this R&B radio station. I slept two hours at night before I went on the air. I slept two or three hours in the morning when I got off the air and then all day long I would do things that I had to do to be an actor and to write songs.”
“I had done some songwriting, I had songs picked up by, A&M Records has a publishing company, and they picked up some songs.”
“Music is the thing that's actually in my heart, in my brain, and I did not understand that until I was way grown and several years into Hollywood. But on the way to discovering that, acting was a way for me to be creative. There was a creativity that was involved in it and there's a creativity process that I enjoyed learning and developing and that began to be part of, how I do my songwriting is, from creative process things that I learned as an actor.”
“The Other Side”
“Trouble Time”