MY STORY
A Long Journey
Two of my childhood heroes were Superman, and Mary Poppins. For me, it wasn't unusual to find me running around the yard with a towel tied to my shoulders, leaping tall buildings in a single bound, or jumping off the front porch with one of my mother's push-button umbrellas!
As a singer, composer, arranger, audio mixer, videographer/editor, and ham actor, Ive always had a curious mind, and the most unlikely of things can inspire me. I started playing the piano from a very early age, and started composing little tunes soon after. I draw a lot of my musical inspirations from the past, and as a lover of history and antiquities, I am an old soul who often fills displaced from another time.
I taught myself to record and mix audio out of necessity because I never felt I would never be able to afford the services of a professional studio. After I graduated, I begged my mother to get me the Cakewalk daw program. My first recordings were terrible. I pushed buttons, turned knobs till I thought itsounded nice. Sometimes I hit the mark - most of the time, I didn't.
As the years went on, I learned more and more about audio editing, and my recordings markedly improved. After enough shooting in the dark, I finally invested in some formal education at Full Sail University. There, I learned to truly love the technical side of Audio as well as well as the performance on the other side of the microphone.
My Annus Horribilis
In the summer of 2018, I was diagnosed with stage four Renal Cell Carcinoma. (Kidney Cancer) - with metastasis to the liver. The scans showed what looked to also be spleen and pancreatic involvement.
The outlook was three to five years, max: I sought out a second opinion. The second doctor seemed quite optimistic, and believed that an operation to removed the affected kidney would be successful. The operation was successful, and there was no spleen or pancreatic involvement as originally thought.. The true miracle - the one that my doctors did not expect, was the removal of 22 suspicious looking lymph nodes. The pathology report revealed they were 100% cancer free!
The surgery was the easy part. It was the following year, 2019 that was my annus horribilis. I had so many rare complications due to the treatments I was taking. I was in the hospital more than I was out, and I nearly died four times.
I am here to tell you to God does exist, and He is still in the business of working miracles. I know; I am one of them! Many of the things that happened to me - most people do not survive; I should not be alive! Here I am, on almost 5 years, and still cancer free, and still going strong!