Album Notes

Music is a uni­ver­sal means of cel­e­brat­ing life. Song is a voice of the soul which, when shared, opens a door­way for con-necting deeply with each other and the world. Each per­son and each thing sings their song when they fol­low their heart, doing what they are meant to do, and being who they are meant to be with pas­sion. Like the end­less bird­song that cir­cles the earth with the sun­rise, I wish for my music to be a true expres­sion of what it is that gives me life, an expres­sion of who I am and how I expe­ri­ence the world. It is also a prayer that we may all find the music of our souls and sing our songs in har­mony with every­thing we are and in every­thing we do.

The images I work with in my song­writ­ing rec­og­nize pain and plea­sure, earth and heaven, and body and spirit as funda-mentally related polar­i­ties of life. It is in the bal­anced cen­ter of these oppo­sites, that unity, har­mony, and ful­fill­ment are found. Because I believe that love is the source of all things and all things have a divine pur­pose, my lyrics carry a pos­i­tive mes­sage even when depict­ing a painfully human expe­ri­ence. My songs usu­ally emerge when I am feel­ing at one with myself and the world.

I was trained in clas­si­cal piano as a child. In col­lege I bought my first gui­tar so I could carry my instru­ment with me and started writ­ing songs. Since then, I have con­tin­ued singing and song­writ­ing, per­form­ing both orig­i­nals and cov­ers in var­i­ous incar­na­tions includ­ing solo, duo and rock band per­for­mances work­ing pri­mar­ily as lead singer, rhythm gui­tarist and occa­sional bassist and keyboardist.