about the music and the musician
I come from a very musical family. From as far back as I can remember I've been a singer, participating in school and regional choirs all through elementary and junior high. I played the french horn in band for two years. I took up piano lessons and then taught myself to play the organ, eventually taking over as church organist at my father's small church in seventh grade, a job I continued to hold all through college.
My first ambitions to be a pop star go back to junior high, in the heyday of the New Kids on the Block. I formed a "band" with four friends. We called ourselves "Over the Edge" and had plans to each date one of the New Kids when we got famous.
Our first problem was that we never actually made any music together. I wrote several songs but we never got to the point of rehearsing. Within a month or so we'd gotten into a fight over some huge issue I can't remember now and the group disbanded. Some of us recruited other friends and formed a new group called "International Heartbeat" (remember, this was junior high), but that group also met the same fate.
After that my budding songwriting skills were tossed aside. I'd grown out of my silly ambitions to be a pop star and threw myself into academics to prepare myself for architecture school and a respectable career.
In 2002, however, I suddenly found myself unemployed, broke, and full of creative angst that needed an outlet. I decided to give up my corporate ambitions because they were proving to be creatively unfulfilling. Instead I was going to be a serious artist. Somehow, thought, with an abundance of free time now that I didn't have a job to go to I found myself channeling my feelings into more than just mosaics.
I don't remember the moment that I began writing music again, but the stresses and uncertainty I was feeling at that time soon got expressed lyrically and I had a real need to put the words to music. Having already toyed recently with recording my own vocals over downloaded karaoke tracks and mixing them on my computer with what free software I could get my hands on, I found a freeware digital synthesizer program for my computer and began to toy with it. Soon I was using my primitive resources to create my own original recordings.
Lyrically, I tend to express my deepest most personal feelings in a way that leaves the meaning open to interpretation. I believe that the raw emotions that I've felt over the last three very stressful years are universal and easy to relate to even without being literal and obvious about the situations that prompted those feelings. I like to think that each person who hears a song will find their own personal meaning and connection to the lyrics.
Sonically, my music reflects my varied musical tastes. Because of the software I use to create the instrumental tracks, a lot of the music I've created thus far has a very electronica-type sound. A lot of the songs have an 80s vibe to them, which I think is just a natural result of my near obsession with the music I loved growing up.
Honestly, my childhood dream of being a pop star has been resurrected in a way. I'd love to get some recognition for my music, but I'm not out looking for a record deal. I write and sing because it makes me feel better, and more than anything I just hope somebody out there hears it and enjoys it.
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