As a kid, I was very fortunate and lucky enough that my parents, upon my sudden love for the violin, signed me up for lessons at five years old. What they didn’t expect, was my whining every time I played a wrong note, and that I’d get very upset when that happened, so we asked my violin teacher. That’s how I found out that I had perfect pitch.
When I grew older, joining more orchestras and branching out into more genres, I joined an orchestra at 12 that focused on teaching classically trained kid musicians about playing other types of music on their instruments. I had already loved rock and punk music from my father’s influence, but playing purple haze and thunderstruck’s solos on the violin opened up a whole new world for me.
I started to truly find happiness in playing this music and wanted to write my own. At thirteen, I started lessons in Guitar, Bass Guitar, Logic Pro X, and Ukulele and by fourteen, I made a band. Through my teacher, he introduced me to his daughter and a few other kids who took lessons at the store and we started a band. I helped cowrite and write most of the songs, and we performed all over SoCal. As soon as the opportunity struck, I started working at fifteen at a local music store. During that time, I learned a lot about music production and decided it was my passion.
Writing songs for the band and being able to create and record them onto a DAW made me feel alive. So by sixteen, I tested out of high school so that I could go to Los Angeles Recording School to not waste any time. Unfortunately at seventeen years old, the band and I went separate ways as I started diving deeper into my school work and music production skills (during that time I left my job too). Now, at 21, I’m graduated with a degree in music production, with all the protools certifications one can get, and on my way toward the work force.