Born and raised in Miami Beach, Florida, my parents considered me a “musical prodigy” from the time I could speak (that’s parents for you). I fell in love with performing. I turned to writing secular songs and poetry in high school as an outlet for the typical emotional turmoil that teenagers often experience. In college, I joined the University Singers where I met the love of my life, named Michael. I had stopped going to church many years before, and it was Michael who encouraged me to return. It was because of Michael that I was reacquainted with God—the first big step in my spiritual journey. It wasn’t until October of 1997 that I began a true relationship with Jesus, however. While at a Darlene Zschech concert,I heard the song, ‘So You Would Come’, and I finally understood that the sacrifice of Jesus Christ was for me personally—that no matter how I had failed in my life, regardless of what I had done in the past, this was a new beginning and that I was forgiven by the blood