I’ve been singing all my life, as well as playing various instruments. I was in school and church choir and choral groups as well as band and other ensembles. I also participated in college and community theater, in such musicals as The Fantasticks, South Pacific, 1776, and Fiddler on the Roof, to name a few.
Up until my late twenties I considered myself a skilled amateur. That changed when I found myself broke and homeless in New Orleans. I found myself on a street corner in the French Quarter with a borrowed guitar, and made enough in one evening to get something to eat and a room.
I pursued music as a career for the next decade or so; I consider it artistically successful, but not so much financially.
I haven’t performed in a professional setting in many years. My artistic energy has recently been in the area of teaching and composition.