Bio

I'm a singer/songwriter from Arizona. I've been a musician for neary 20 years and my ambitions for the purpose of my art has evolved as I have over the years. At first I just wanted to learn to play the guitar for my own enjoyment. I was obsessed from the moment I picked up my first guitar. I played a minimum of 3 hours a day for the first 3 years and I got pretty good in a short period of time. Music became more than a hobby but a passion. Around that time, a church I was attending asked for volunteer musicians and I offered to help. I spent the next 3 years playing lead guitar for them and I learned a lot about music and myself. Songwriting started later in my musical journey. I was living life the same as any typical person when something happened that destroyed everything i had worked for and forever changed the course my life would take. I had a wisdom tooth pulled and prescribed narcotic pain medication. It just took one pill... One pill led to an addiction that blindsided everyone who knew me. I was the last person anyone would expect to be an addict. I was, James, one of the most responsible and ethical men that you knew. I was a straight A college student in a pre-med program. There's no way i would become a drug addict. But I did become a drug addict. 3 years after the first pill I was homeless, doing things for money that I wouldn't have even considered before to support a habit that cost over $1,200 a week. I hated myself. I became the type of person I used to be judgmental toward. I was supposed to be better than this but i later learned that there's no such thing as being "better than this". It took me 9 years to free myself and I lost everything and everyone I ever cared about. Addiction humbled me. It made me realize how foolish I was to judge others for where they are. I don't know what they went through to get to that point and if I had walked the same path, I might be exactly where they are. Maybe my judgment of others caused me to experience their life and that was the Universe teaching me a lesson. I don't know.... What I do know is that experience changed my goals in music. Songwriting started with me just trying to express what I felt, like a musical journal. It evolved into another music related passion, to write songs that other people can use to help them get through hard times. I write about deeply personal topics and feelings because I know someone else feels the same and maybe by sharing I can play a small part in healing the broken or giving hope to those who have none. I want to heal others with the songs that come from my soul.