My mother was a music teacher, and my father had a huge affinity for jazz. Both of my parents were pianists. At age four, my mother began teaching me the piano. I was lucky to have been surrounded by music. It was the desire of my parents to have a steady diet of music at a young age. At age 9, I wrote my first piano song. At 10, I began playing the drums, because my brother thought that I was laz
y and that I could sit down and play. At 12, I got my first guitar and immediately started writing acoustic guitar ballads. After-all, my favorite hair metal bands were White Lion, Warrant and Bon Jovi (insert embarrasment). In high school I continued piano lessons and took on guitar lessons as well. I really started listening to music in a different way. At first I would listen to one instrumental part of a song, but as my knowledge on each instrument grew, the understanding of how they worked together to form a musical composition really came to fruition. It was a natural progression for me to begin producing and arranging music. After high school, I spent my college years bouncing between Berklee College of Music in Boston and the Hartt School of music in Hartford. I finally decided that Berklee was the place for me and enrolled in the Music Production and Engineering program. After graduation, I worked for a number of studios in the area, with an attempt of meeting and learning from producers. As time went by, I realized that these people could only show and tell me about their experiences and it was time to fly on my own. That’s when I built Electric Blue Velvet. What better way to celebrate my growth in music than to turn my old basement rehearsal space into a professional recording environment. Even better than that, what does every major studio lack nowadays, instruments. I’m not talking about a couple of guitars. There is an arsenal of professional, vintage and unique instruments that are all available. I've been able to create with minimal cost for years.
