I was born in Victoria, BC, Canada. I started my music career by busking in the streets of Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland, England, etc, drawing crowds ranging in size from zero (character building) to 50 (which drew the local police). I have countless cool stories from busking and hitchhiking, but this bio is going to be long enough without them. Catch me after a show sometime and I'll share a story or two.

Press the little >> button on the life-playback machine and I found myself in the U.S.A. working on some basic demo recordings and playing at a few venues in Los Angeles. A woman at one of my shows fell in love with ‘No Way Home' and wanted to use it in her independent movie. For what seemed to be a good amount of money at the time, I gave her a copy and then immediately took that money to get the gear to produce my own records. The clouds parted, the angels sang, and I had created my first EP, ‘Halo'.

The viral success of ‘Halo' attracted many new fans on the Web, and copies of the CD have shipped all around the world. The proceeds from ‘Halo' enabled me to invest in even better gear for my studio and also buy some time so that I could start working on my next project, ‘Mercy', a full-length album.

The songs on ‘Mercy' were born from despair, from death, failed relationships, war, etc. It's a pretty dark and melancholy album, but it's also a very honest soul-searching musical journey into some dark areas. There have been some demo versions of a couple of the songs online for a few months now, and the reaction to those has been very strong, and people have already made great personal connections with them. People have dedicated the songs from ‘Mercy' to their lovers, they've played the songs at funerals of their loved ones, and one of the songs, ‘How', has become important to people fighting cancer and their families.

Now I'm working on promoting ‘Mercy' and recording the next record currently titled ‘Project Apollo'. It's a great time to be an independent artist and I feel very fortunate to have the ability to have direct relationships with fans of my music. Ever since I was three years old I knew I wanted to be a musician, and it's very exciting to me that I've been able to successfully do it, and that I've done it on my own without help from record labels or managers or anything like that.