I started my musical journey through hair metal & mo-town from my parents. It was quite an eclectic mix on my little iPod shuffle I’ll tell you. I learned how to play trumpet in the middle school band around the 3rd grade and eventually gravitated towards playing bass guitar. I eventually discovered electronic music sometime in high school and it really rocked my world. I started DJ’ing on a little Numark controller, eventually trying to mix rock & indie dance vinyl on two belt drive turntables in my folks basement, that was a time…. Then I discovered my first DAW ( I think Cakewalk Sonar 7) and became enthralled with music production and being able to take all of the parts I’d hear in my brain and assemble them together myself on a computer. I ultimately went to college to study music business and sort of gave up the bass and went all in on music production and the deeper sounds of the underground dance music scene. I went on to work (briefly) at WME before deciding the super corporate agent life wasn’t for me, then had a stint of general managing the RINSED crew in Brooklyn for a while before dabbling in management and eventually winding my way back to being an agent for the last 7 years. That all said, I was always DJ’ing and producing music the entire time, just with a deep feeling of imposter syndrome since I represented or worked with so many of the artists I deeply respected and loved and buried myself in my work. There came a point where I realized I needed to take a big step back from the business side of what I loved to really truly appreciate what it was that made me fall in love with it. The last two years, I’ve been focused solely on figuring out my own sound and developing it without fear or the intense burden of a 24/7 job in the music business. I was going to shows every weekend for years and years of my life and all of a sudden completely stopped for more than a year. By separating myself from it all, I really think I’ve been able to craft the unadulterated sonic “me”.