I grew up in Southern California and learned to play piano around age 7.  Then moved to Oregon and got a guitar for my 13th birthday and started learning from books and am basically self-taught.  I played the piano a little in high school but then really got back into it in college and composed my first full length song in college and even got to play it for my old piano teacher and Nana at a recital in L.A.  After college I studied in Norway and traveled Europe but then had to come back and start working.  Worked for a few years then my father died of cancer very abruptly which led me to songwriting.  I wrote my first full length rock album back in 2007 or so and had a band formed from Craigslist but struggled with keeping a drummer.  Unfortunately we never got it fully recorded.  Finally, after one quite I decided to go it alone around 2013 and bought some new equipment and  wrote my next album entirely on my own and attempted to write the most