Singer, Song-Writer, Musician

Imposter syndrome hits fairly strongly when I consider calling myself a musician. While music has always been one of the biggest players in my life, I’ve never quite felt like I deserved to be in the same category as some of the most amazing humans I’ve ever known. If I close my eyes, I can still hear my mom playing piano downstairs while I was in my room on a Saturday morning, my dad singing along to the Doobie Brothers in the car, my Gramps making up tunes and yodeling his best to make us laugh, I can see my Granny up singing with the church choir. I spent hours standing on my dad’s bed so that I could see myself in the mirror; there I was doing full choreography with a hairbrush for a microphone belting out ABBA, Britney Spears, Shania Twain, and every other CD I could get my hands on.

I became a certified choir kid pretty early on in life (and I’ve got the All-State Choir plaques to prove it). Being in choir made the transition to also being in the school musicals pretty obvious. Choir kid, theatre kid, art kid—the holy trinity of coolness in school. By the time I entered college, I really wasn’t sure where to turn but music remained my constant. I studied at length with the world-renowned Dr. Jim Henry, founder of the Ambassadors of Harmony, as a member of an elite acapella jazz group, Vocal Point. With a solid base of classical, operatic training, I took off for the East Coast. From there, my sights became set on musical theatre. I continued to grow and learn in university and in masterclasses with more of the greats like Dominick Amendum, Jessica Vosk, Garrett Liam States, Erin Speer, Ann Varwig, and others.

Regardless of my current hyper-fixation, music was always there. Musical theatre, song writing, art inspired by music, poetry inspired by music—it was always music. Today, I love being a musical chameleon—never allowing myself to be pigeon holed into one sound or genre. With formal training, I read sheet music well and am a self-taught rhythm player on piano, guitar, and ukulele. I can also bring fill out an acoustic set or rhythm section with cajon and auxiliary percussion—having even played all of the percussion in a three person pit for a production of Into the Woods.

While I love being in cover bands and performing creative covers of songs from every decade and genre, I cannot wait to begin releasing original music of my own and with Second Wind Knox. I am available for hire for studio work (at-home studio capabilities), fill-in gigs, and am looking to start my own band based out of St. Louis, Missouri.