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He is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist who is originally from New York. He has overcome two near-death experiences to become an award-winning front man who has an eight-octave range with the ability to hold notes for over a minute. His YouTube videos have amassed over five-and-a-half million views and he has had a song chart on the Top 20 in the Rock category (number 14, specifically) and he has charted on the Global Hot 100 (number 78). He has been seen on FOX, NBC, ABC, and the CW. He has performed at festivals that have included Machine Gun Kelly, Fall Out Boy, and Greta Van Vleet. He recently signed a licensing and publishing deal that will put his songs on television and in movies.

Notable Guest Quotes

“I have an appreciation for life more and I don’t take anything for granted.”

“My vocal elasticity changed.  My range changed and I had all these new resonances and stuff, like I could sing polyphonics, like full chords, after that, and through more range than a piano, which I never had access to before.”

“Covid, like, I’ve caught every strain so far ‘cause I travel all the time, even with, like, masking and vaccinations and recent testing, there’s always a chance that something slips through and, yeah, three, I’ve caught every strain, so, it’s like Pokémon, like, gotta catch ‘em all.  And I absolutely almost died when I had the Delta (strain).”

“I was basically in bed for, like, two or three years… I couldn’t really talk.  I had a little notepad or I’d use a phone and I’d write notes to people and give them.”

“I still write by myself today.  And the only time I’ve ever written collaboratively was with my music manager’s daughter and with Broadway playwright and Disney composer Mark Schoenfeld, who, we wrote a song recently specifically for the purpose of being licensed for films and TV and to shop around to his label friends.”

“My brain sees music as, like, a puzzle and like shapes and colors… I don’t really see it in sounds or hear it in sounds. It’s just pieces that fit together.”

“I’ve been writing since I was a little kid; lyrics, poetry, books, music, all that kind of thing.”

“There was an opera singer that did a reaction video to one of my festival performances and she was like, ‘You’re an alien’!”

“I love playing all over the world and discovering new places and people.  I love the crowds in South America and Europe.  Australia is beautiful, Japan, everywhere, I mean, there’s always something to be experienced and something to be learned.”

“I don’t think I deserve anything, I work for everything.”

Songs on this episode

“Varlet”
“Tears Can Water Roses”