My journey into music started at the age of 8. I was just beginning to get into music and was already singing in the school chorus. It always seemed natural to me to sing and I found the type I really loved (and still do) Rock 'n' Roll!

Since that time, believe it or not, my goal was to be a singer. When you are a kid you don't understand all the work that must be done, you only think of the fun!
Although I know now how hard it is, I'd like to think that my little kid who was in it for the fun has never grown up.

I love to perform as much today as I did when I first stepped on stage. I always look forward to the process of writing new songs and getting them just right, that first note I'm singing in the recording studio or the feeling that I've made some sort of difference in someone's life through my lyrics.
There really was no choice for me to make. The music chose me.

When I think which Artist's have made the biggest impact on me, the underlying theme to 95% of them is lyrics, melody and the vocalist carrying the message.
I have to really envision myself in the performers shoes. (I say performer because not all writers sing their own lyrics).
To look into the meaning of the lyrics and understand where they are coming from, to know that sometimes when I feel a certain way, a great song can make me feel that someone else has been there too, good or bad.

Melody has been something that I have analyzed in my musical taste only in just in the past few years. I love many different styles of music and was thinking what ties them all together. Melody.
Arrangement is very important as well. The way a song is written is very important to me. I love when all the parts fit just right, and melody is the oil that keeps the machine working.
This leads me to the Vocalist. This will make or break the song for me. I HAVE to want to listen to the voice to get to any of the other reasons.
It does not matter one bit to me the range of the voice, or the notes the person hits. What matters most to me is the STYLE! What is pleasing to my ear, the tone in the voice, the delivery and the dynamic power of someone who knows how to make you FEEL what they sing!
Feel is most important. To me it sets apart the true artists and the note hitters.

I'd have to say that what I most want to achieve from being a musician isn't the money or the fame.
It's the ability to maybe someday play music with some of my heroes.
Man, just to have the privilege get up there and jam at one of those all-star jams at the Rock 'n Roll hall of fame ceremonies!
Or to sing on stage with Black Sabbath, The Kinks, Jethro Tull, Ted Nugent or Ronnie James Dio! That's when I know I've made it.

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