I started picking on the guitar early in high school, but at that time, it was just hobby to me. I was really moved by the “Texas Country” scene , after attending a Fall Fandango concert at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, in The Woodlands, TX, with my older brother and his friends. After that, I was hooked and eventually found myself singing along and playing to artists I saw that day. I found myself writing songs and playing everyday, so I formed a band with some local classmates, and with just a few originals and a hand full of covers, I soon landed us our first gig! We started out as a house band, opening for some big name bands every Sunday, at venue called Reno’s, in Webster,Tx . After graduating, I moved up to College Station, and started doing some solo/acoustic acts at some local bars, while attending school. By 19, during the summer before sophomore year in college, I released my first record, "Life", which consisted of 13 originals that I started writing between high school and leading into the end of my freshman year of college. Looking back, I sometimes feel I rushed the record by putting every song I had written on it just to have an all “original cd”. However, I look at my writing on that record as a stepping stone, as if it tells a story about what I went through or who I was as a person in my life. So I stuck to my guns and took a chance being a Texas singer/songwriter and put school and everything else aside.