He spent ten years living and working in Nashville at the start of his music career. Now based in Kansas City, Missouri, he is a singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and arranger who is in the process of releasing (beginning of March) a new album featuring 24 songs. In addition, he is working on a new body of work, plus he has a film production company (doing 70+ films a year), for which he has written and scored hundreds of short films and documentaries. He also wrote a book – endorsed by many GRAMMY Award-winning and nominated engineers – titled, “What the Pros Use,” which chronicles what the top engineers in New York, Los Angeles, Nashville, and Miami use to track 31 instruments, including the voice. And, he has given concerts all over the U.S. and abroad.
“When we recorded the song in Leipers Fork, which is just south of Nashville, I was recording at Chester Thompson’s studio – he was the drummer for Genesis and Phil Collins for many years – and I had brought Edwin Bonilla in from Gloria Estefan’s band – he’s a main percussion player for her band and first call guy in Miami – and he just couldn’t get past those lyrics, which was great for me because I was a nobody working with this master.”
“We’re gonna miss things in life, so, on a certain level, hopefully we’re gonna learn things about ourselves from other people that we couldn’t see.”
“I was working a job at the top pro audio rental company in Nashville on the night shift from 4 to midnight and I’d get home and sing until probably 3 in the morning and then I’d get up in the morning and then I would write for several hours.”
“I was like, ‘Ya’ know, I didn’t wait my entire life to pursue music to fit into a mold’.”
“I knew… I wasn’t necessarily writing for radio. I wasn’t going to write jingles, and… I wasn’t going to be limited by labels; not just record labels but particular identifiable labels.”
“That’s what artists have the ability to do, is help people open and go places they maybe couldn’t go on their own.”
“My father played music in the home all the time on guitar and I picked up a guitar when I was three years old and started just strumming strings. It always came natural to me.”
“I think the most important thing that I continue to learn, as an artist but also as a human being, is how to listen. And, not just listen with my ears, but how to remove my own bias.”
“I had to do really one of the most painful things in my life – as a kid that literally grew up drawing stages and thinking about touring – I had to set aside my life’s aspiration.”
“Singing for me and music is effortless. It’s the easiest and most enjoyable thing really that I do when it comes to our artistic expression. And my life just goes better that way.”
“I’m singing and writing better than I have before. I need to do this.”
“I’ve got limited time on this earth. I want to do what I can to do the best I can to put out this (new album) and to use my talents and hopefully bring a lift to people’s lives.”
“I go out and give talks – I call ‘em concert talks – where I kind of talk and share stories. I do a handful of those every year.”
“Virtues”
“Faith”