Singer, songwriter, guitar player who has performed throughout the U.S. and Europe. Highlights of the original music he has released include international hits on the iTunes charts, a Spotify editorial playlist, and the Top 40 Roots Music Report and IndieWorld Report. In addition, videos from two of his songs have been nominated and selected for numerous film festivals. His top five songs on Spotify alone have gotten a combined 1.2 million streams and a single that he released last August won Favorite Mainstream Single in the 2023 Independent Music Network Awards.
“During that crazy time that we all call the pandemic, I was sitting there in my room, all of our shows got cancelled, so we had too much free time to really observe and break down all the, you know, our own mentality, and view what was happening… and it was very heavy.”
“I feel like my coping mechanism my entire life has always been writing, it's been my therapeutic craft.”
“I make it a rule to do at least one show for South by Southwest… South by Southwest is cool and it's a cool networking experience… I love it and it's a good way to put yourself out there.”
“I would suggest maybe booking some South By (Southwest) shows and then reach out to other venues that are near or surrounding Austin like San Marcos, which is a suburb, or New Braunfels, which is a little further south of San Marcos in Austin, or Dripping Springs, some area like that, reach out to the venues and also see if you can get yourself paid for the travel, like, reach out to those venues and see if they have an open date.”
“By the time I was a senior in high school I was playing out at writers nights and had started writing my own songs.”
(regarding his inspirations) “George Strait, of course… I grew up really listening to him, but like the first guy that really hooked me as far as vocals and songwriting was Hank Williams, Sr… he was always, like, my dude, like my main inspiration. Through that I discovered guys like John Prine and some of the newer writers like Jason Isbell.”
“For a lot of people, like, the industry has handed you these molds and people try to fit themselves into them because they think that will, like, breed the same success, but, like, there's no pattern to the industry. There's nothing, like, it's ever changing… it's going to keep changing, you just have to do you and be content with what you're doing and if something great happens in that process then that's just a plus, but you always have something that you're passionate about either way.”
“There was one weekend when I was younger, I locked myself in a room and I wrote 30 songs in one weekend, just to see how many songs I could write.”
“I got to open up for George Jones in Houston, Texas. That was like my first big show, and it was, like, the legendary George Jones and after that I was like, ‘I think that I might be able to do this.’ Nancy came up to me after the show, his wife, and was like, ‘You need to move to Nashville’.”
“Are you doing all you can for your music, for your craft, for, like, the people you love, like, are you living that life worth dying for? Are you making every moment count, every day count?”
“Humanity”
“Life Worth Dyin’ For”