| Born in Detroit at a young
age.....studied under a player piano at age 5....family
moved at age 7, but left the piano
behind....experimented with (but did not inhale) music
off and on for the next 12 years at which time began
studying on electronic console organ with
accompaniment....at 21, began co-writing and recording
songs with kid brothers using a Casiotone 202.....early
the next year, allowed myself to be dragged into
Lolita's Lounge, to see an oldies/Motown cover band
known as Mondo Cane....began playing with them the
following week...played several gigs over the next 5
months, but was ultimately fired from the group, over
the direction the music was going.....resumed work with
kid brothers and a cousin, forming what would become
Catalyst, a fluxion rock outfit....played first gig with
Catalyst in March 1983 at the Wayne State student
commons building to a rather indifferent lunch
crowd....continued gigging in the Detroit dive circuit
of the mid 80's....approached by Phil Romero (then of
Mondo Cane) to get together and play...first gig with
this new line-up was New Years Eve, 1985-86, at the then
Southfield Hilton.....gigs with both groups continued
for the next 2 years...Mondo Cane was set to fold in the
summer of 1987and did a benefit gig with the Larados,
who were looking for a keyboard player at the
time....began playing with the Larados one month later,
and continued to play with them for he next 8 years,
recording 2 albums with them during that time....quit
playing music to work in sound engineering...bought
studio equipment and got set up to record music at
home...acquired a Yamaha W7 in 1995 and began using it
for composition....worked breifly with the Latin Counts
(the singing group, not the gang) in the oldies/Motown
genre...began writing and recording songs with Francisco
in 1997...by November 1999, all necessary equipment was
in place to produce a master.....the master tape for
'Atmosphere" was finished in April 2000....work has
begun on the next project.... 
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