Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist who last year released four singles, was featured on six others, and is recording “a bunch of new stuff” this month. In 2023 he finished as a semi-finalist on season 18 of “America’s Got Talent” AND, that same year, beat out thousands of competitors to win TikTok’s Greatest Talent. Based in Detroit, he has performed at notable venues and events ranging from NPR’s Mountain Stage to being an Americanafest Spotlight Artist to the famed Bluebird Café in Nashville AND Whiskey Jam, among others. His top five songs on Spotify alone have been streamed close to 5.9 million times, he has one million followers on TikTok, and his official YouTube channel has a combined total of 4.5 million video views.
“As a songwriter, sometimes these ideas just come to you at the weirdest times.”
“The reason I wanted to learn the guitar was because I was having a lot of trouble using the fiddle as kind of a rhythm instrument or like as a writing instrument.”
“The fiddle is the closest instrument sonically to the human voice, which is why it kind of pulls at those heart strings sometimes when you hear it.”
“A great part about maturing as a musician is kind of knowing that power of knowing your spots when you’re playing.”
“The way that I experience music is so visual and, you know, I didn't have a word for this for a very long time, but the reason I close my eyes so much when I play the fiddle is I truly see it like colors. That's how I experience music.”
“I've always been really intent on trying to collaborate on different types of projects with different folks and also just write with a really good variance so that I can just get my stuff out there and into the world.”
“If you're gonna try to write well, you got to treat your writing like a job and do it every day and really try to be intentional about it.”
“I had some buddies that had graduated ahead of me that had gone, ‘Hey, we're gonna sell everything we have, we're going to Nashville,’ and it was not going well for them, and it was freaking me out… these guys were good musicians and… it wasn’t working.”
“I'm on live television. I'm on NBC, 8 to 10 million viewers Monday night, Tuesday night, and Wednesday night, that week, three nights in a row. On Thursday night at midnight, my album drops.”
“Lightning Bugs”
“Dogwoods”