I first fell in love with music in middle school when I found my music.  Some of the first bands I remember really just being amazed by were Distrubed, Drowning Pool, Korn, Godsmack, all those heavy bands of the early 2000s. I had never before heard music so angry, heavy, and distorted. I found them by listening to the radio, The Rock 106.9 WCCC, a station that doesn’t exist anymore. They were the only station that would play heavy music.

Shortly after falling in love, I started collecting CDs and eventually got an iPod.  I started getting into the more classic bands like Metallica, Pantera, Megadeth.  Later in high school, I got into grunge, even though it wasn’t the 90s.  

I started learning guitar in early high school when I learned what tablature was and I didn’t need to know how to read music.  Ultimate Guitar Tabs was my new favorite website and I spent hours learning Metallica, Pantera, and Disturbed songs.  It wasn’t long before I tried writing my own songs.  I was quickly drawn to creating my own songs.  

My songwriting journey has been a long one.  When I first started putting different guitar parts together, I never thought I would sing.  I didn’t think that I could.  But mostly I was mostly just to embarrassed to try.  So for years I quietly wrote songs with no words, before I got too curious about lyrics.  Instrumental songs always felt unfinished.  So I pushed myself to try and finish some songs and put words and melodies to them.  They were bad at first, not in key or really basic lyrics, but I kept doing it.  Little parts of things I came up with would inspire me to keep going.  I remember one part of a song I came up with in college, a bridge to a song I never finished, I really liked, and I was like woah, I think this sounds like a song.  

I kept writing songs and playing guitar after collage but it slowed down because I got a corporate job as a mechanical engineer.  At that time I was in some bands, and was able to express some songwriting that way, but I felt as though I had let it slip away from me. 

When the pandemic hit, I was still working my corporate job, but I saw it as my opportunity to really get back to songwriting.  I made a promise to myself that I would write a song a week, for every week that I was sent home.  I thought we’d only be home for a month or so, but that wasn’t the case.  I think I got to like week 12 before stopping.  I had a bunch of ideas and about half of them I liked.  I started to put a project together, but never really finished it or put it out there, but it was the start of me believing that I could put a song out there. 

In 2021 I quit my corporate career in search of a more purposeful life, and finally decided to prioritize my music.  I put out my first album Clear Ocean in 2023, which was put together so fast during a hugely inspiring time in my life. I live tracked all the songs, and did some overdubs. My second album Palm Open came a year later in 2024 and was a much more thought out project, an accumulation of a years worth of writing. 

In 2025 I set out to give myself a new challenge. I wanted to write and record a new single each month of the year. Write the song, record it, do all the production, and release it by the end of the month was my goal, so that I could get better at the whole process from writing to mixing. It was successful and I put out 12 singles last year.

I’m always writing new songs, but now, I’m in search of my next project for 2026. I have also gotten more into recording other people’s music.  I love the recording process, songwriting, and especially mixing music. I just love working with great artists, and am looking forward to be able to keep doing this.