Bio

I was brought up in a very non musical family, born in Boston moved to London with my mom when i was 5 years old. I remember being young and having to watch all my mates go for music class leaving me behind because my parents saw it as a waste of resources and would not pay for my music class. I started from just playing rubbish, to actually understanding that there was always a perfect arrangement of notes to create any song .That was when my ears started picking sounds better. Gradually I learned how to harmonize the notes, then I discovered the chords, all this took quite a while for me to understand but I eventually did. This was about twelve years ago. I later went to play as an assistant keyboardist for my church, where I was exposed to playing in the Reagee and high-life patterns. Before this time I had listened to an M.L.T.R album titled “paint my love”.This inspired me to start writing my songs. I wrote my first song and from the response I got from people I found out that I was pretty good. So while I played at church I started writing more rock songs. Then at a point, About two years down the road I started getting frustrated, I had written so many songs and non of them where recorded.These problems are able to discourage any body from going on, but I stood my ground and a friend of mine introduced me to a bunch of very tight rappers who had a studio and were in need of a keyboardist. I took this opportunity and got my self in the studio, where I watched carefully, and saw how things were done and asked questions when I did not understand. It was later obvious to the people in the studio that I possessed great sequencing abilities and rappers,where I worked began to notice this. So after so much self training I finally became a producer at the same studio. Slowly and with time I started working on my own personal projects. This was about six years ago and this is where the real drama started. As I started recording my songs I found out that I sounded awful. Instead of trying to help me or encourage me, my friends, colleagues and family tried to discourage me. I knew all I had to do was work harder, and so I did. Imagine being the only rock artist in a studio where there were 15 Rappers, four RnB singers and three Dance hall musicians. It was crazy, but I kept on and gradually my vocals became sweeter and clearer. I started realizing pitches that I taught I could never reach. Hmm......you may think this was the part where things started becoming better but your wrong, because this was actually where much serious challenges began to surface. At some point in time I was forced to live the house over the various arguments I was having with my Dad concerning my chosen career, but this did not discourage me. I slept at the studio, got food from any where I could, mostly hand-outs. For money, I sold beats, wrote songs for people, produces tracks etc. It was within this period that I took on my first album project. which I produced, wrote, recorded, mixed and mastered all 12 tracks on the album by myself. This might sound hard to believe but I did it all. The album was titled “I don taya” which is pigeon English for “ I am tired” named after the song “I don taya”.The track became popular in the south of the country and still is even as I write. This album was completed in April 2006 and was not released until June.So here I am, back in the U.S after 22years hoping to reach the heights of my career on an international level. To this end I hope to take maximum advantage of the high quality of musical education that Berklee College of music has to offer and by God’s grace I know I’m gonna make it to the top, like one of my songs says. In my time as a producer, I have produced more than two hundred songs, ten albums and written about fifty songs in a span of six years. I am 24years old and I know that this is just the beginning.