I have had the pleasure of enjoying all the wonderful adventures due to these interests when I was young.

I would never have guessed this is where my life would have led to. As for me, it was always something silly leading into something serious. To me, it does not matter how one gets to a point of “studying” music. I soon forgot about the girl and decided to take my singing seriously. However, one of the teachers noticed my emotions in my singing and asked me to take some lessons. Fast forward a year later: I am a 13 year old and I applied for an acting camp…really because I was crushing hard on this girl in my class. When I heard the full orchestra and the singers…I was changed! Something in me clicked, whether it was the lyrics or the music, to this day I will never be able to tell but I was moved. I never quite took music studying seriously until my father took me to a production of West Side Story on Broadway. My parents noticed something special in that ability to “mimic” and they gave me the option to look into lessons. However, something special came from this. Ultimately, being the youngest of 3, I would try and be funny and match my voice to the singers on the soundtracks. The sounds I was associated with were Jazz, Opera, and country. When I was younger, my parents used to play various types of music in the house.

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