He entered the Air Force at 19. With assignments in Korea and England and later a deployment-heavy military career, the drummer he had been growing up became a singer with an acoustic guitar because it was what he could carry into a barracks room.
By 2018, while stationed at Nellis Air Force Base, the Las Vegas music scene started changing the math. Open mics turned into shows. New collaborators became a band. The thing he had always treated like a side of himself started looking like a life.
His sound never tried to erase where he came from. Country influence sits inside rock ’n’ roll, with a Southern voice, bluesy edges, and lyrics pulled from experience instead of polish.
The Life I Stole became the clearest version of that idea: a record about what needed to change, what had to be left behind, and what came next.
