Music Style indie

Musical Influences The Beatles, Daniel Amos, Larry Norman, Elvis, REM, Kate Bush, Billy Joel

Similar Artists The Beatles, Daniel Amos, Larry Norman

Artist History I was born and raised in the suburbs of New Orleans,La. where early on I was surrounded by the world of music. My dad was the lead singer of a band called The Velvet Touch. I used to love to listen to them practice, which they did sometimes in the living room of our home. I used to fall asleep on the floor in front of the amps as it neared my bedtime. The band eventually broke up and my dad began playing music in a sort of folk gospel trio for the Catholic church where we attended in the early 70's. He also started a choir in which I sang and eventually played guitar. I got my first guitar at the age of six from Sears and learned my first chords from my dad. My dad also played the piano and the bass guitar and as I neared the age of eleven or twelve I also became interested in those instruments and began to learn from my dad and from teaching books that he used. I never learned to read music so I learned everything from playing by ear. Around the same time I also started fiddling around with the drums which learning to play came pretty easily. I remember being in the first or second grade. My dad used to bring me to school and I would be in the backseat playing along with whatever was on the radio beating my lunchbox like a snare drum and making the sounds of the high hat and crash cymbals with my mouth. I'm sure I drove him crazy but he never told me so and he always encouraged me to learn more. Ever since I can remember there was come sort of Christian music playing in the house, but with an even mix of secular music as well. I'd be awakened by Rod Stewart, E.L.O., or The Beatles and Wings. Or other times like especially before we went to church there would be alot of that early 70's Jesus movement music like Andrae Crouch, The Archers, The Imperials, and even Elvis. I was always a big Elvis fan but in the early 80's my cousin turned me on to the likes of Kate Bush, Duran Duran and The Psychadelic Furs. As I progressed from just playing songs to at least trying to write my own I became more interested in artists who also wrote their own material. people like Larry norman and Kieth Green and bands like Daniel Amos and The Beatles sparked a fire in me that has never gone out. I never had any real interest in anything except playing and writing songs so when I graduated high school in 1985 I went to college for a few years and had much fun attending drama and communications classes and all the wonderful plays I was required to attend but accomplished nothing academically. I finally attempted to complete an x-ray tech course ata a junior college but that went bust. I married the love of my life, Lisa Darbonne in 1994 as I continued to work fruitless and unfulfilling jobs. We moved to Nashville in May of 1995 beacause first of all we always loved the idea of living in the mountains and also because me and my friend mike, who had moved there several months earlier, noticed that alot of the Christian bands we liked played Nashville and never played New Orleans. I pretty much perfected the art of karoke machine recording in New Orleans but it wasn't til we moved to Nashville that I started to make better recordings on little four track machines in 1995. That's when and where most of the songs on this site were recorded. My wife said so long in 1996 and I continue to write and record music but now I do it on the computer. I think I write some pretty good songs and I just want as many people to hear them as possible. I don't want to be rich and famous although I would like to make a living out of making music. I just hope I can bring a little pleasure to someone's life the same way as my heroes have done for me.

Instruments guitar, bass, drums, piano

Albums All The Life That You Lose

Location Nashville, Tennessee - USA

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