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“My passion, my art form has been and will always be music.”
When did you get your start as a musician? Growing up in suburbia was a little bit of a difficult thing for me... sticking out in the community of people... I’ve been really stuck out. At a pretty young age I started singing. I was 5 or 6 when I started... took about 4 years of piano... gave up on the piano, then in high school I decided that I really really wanted to play guitar, so I taught myself when I was about 18... and I recorded my first CD as my senior project, then I went to Berklee. So, I mean I knew that I wanted to do music, but thinking of it as a career... I would say that that’s kind of what is happening right now, as I’m finishing recording my album and really putting my music out there. My passion, my art form has been and will always be music... right now I’m creating a career. How old were you when you first learned to play the guitar? I was 17 when I first learned the keyboard, and then from there (age 17 and 18) was when I really taught myself how to play guitar... just through hours upon hours of putting my hands on the strings... getting feedback from other people who were like, ‘what the hell are you playing?’ and I was like ‘I don’t know but I’m just trying to get my life together’... and I took like 2 months of guitar lessons. I really wasn’t practicing like my teacher was telling me to practice. I would come in every week with my song and she would be like, ‘you know, you probably should not be taking guitar lessons’... so I just would write songs... from that I learned that I wanted to write songs.
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