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A six-time Emmy Award-winning recording artist, filmmaker, and television producer. Music-wise, he released a single in August and the official music video for it already has over 1.1 million views on YouTube. Based near Orlando, he has sold a half million albums and garnered a Juno Award nomination for Male Vocalist of the Year. He is currently directing and producing the movie “Undone,” which is based on a true story, and his 2023 movie musical “The True Miracle of Christmas” is now available on Amazon Prime Video. He is also the founder of the anti-bullying ministry Y i Count.

Notable Guest Quotes

“We are facing stuff that is not always nice right?  And we go through seasons that we wish that they would be over.”

“Actually, I hired the actress that is going to play, that has a main role in the movie that I'm producing, I asked her, would you mind playing in this music video, because she's more into the movies, but she loved the song.”

“They made a lot of millions of dollars with me, selling these, doing 200 shows a year and selling a bunch of CDs, but at the end of the day really I didn't make money.”

“I left to go to Nashville wanting to start a new career.  I had no money.  I had nothing.  I was living in my car, actually.”

“Because of the sales and the recognition that I had by my peers I was able to work on different projects and I was actually working at a time with Donna Summer.”

“I continued my career doing the secular music and then got to record a PBS special.  I did some shows in Vegas … by that time … was doing more opera, pop opera actually.  I was the guy who replaced Bocelli at the opening of Portofino in Universal Studio.”

“In Vegas, two shows a day for multiple months, is very taxing on the vocal, especially doing those big opera songs… and for me coming from the east coast it was a major change, going through a such a dry climate, it was very hard for me vocally to maintain and so I was losing an octave.”

“It starts visually for me.  When I write a song, I get an image first, unlike a lot of songwriters, and I see kind of like a little film and then I write… most of the time I think in images, you know, I see stories.”

“It's like an athlete; if you want to run, you got to keep running, so if you want to sing you got to keep singing.”

Songs on this episode

“Almighty”
“My Shining Hour”