I debuted my new single, “Love Letters,” exclusively on Bandcamp in early February. Why, you may ask? Well, as an independent artist, Bandcamp allows me to connect directly with the people who actively support my music; when they purchase a song or an album, I’m able to see who they are and, most importantly, thank […]
Sometime towards the end of 2023, I decided to take a leap and submit a proposal to for Pop Con 2024. Over the past couple years I’ve had the opportunity to nerd out in public with presentations about Prince‘s music, but I hadn’t yet ventured into the waters beyond talking about my favorite artist. I’m […]
I know. It’s been nearly 2 years since I’ve made any updates to my site. I’m trying to do better! Since the last time I posted here, so much has happened! As you may recall, in February 2022 I released my single “Alright,” and the EP it calls home, ‘LOVER,’ arrived in July of that […]
If there’s one thing about me that never changes, it’s that I’m a sucker for love and an even bigger sucker for a good love song. From my first forays into putting pen to paper to bring my original songs to life at the age of 11, to sometime last week when I put the […]
The Family’s self-titled Paisley Park album debuted in August 1985, and was the first and only collection from the group on the label. Thanks to the Purple Avengers, a motley group of Prince music enthusiasts and historians assembled by Deejay UMB on Twitter, who, along with Edgar Cruize, created the #PrinceTwitterThread series, we’re showing this […]
In celebration of Wendy & Lisa’s brilliant ‘Girl Bros.,’ released 4 September 1998, I decided to re-post a blog I wrote in 2014 about how the album has guided me through tremendous loss and how the music endures all these years later. October 1998. I had just moved to Burbank, and was getting settled into […]
On the 5th anniversary of Prince’s passing, I’m revisiting the words I wrote just hours after the news broke in 2016. “So here I sit in my lonely room, looking 4 my sunshine…” 11:01AM, Thursday, April 21, 2016. It’s quiet. I’ve turned off the TV to shut out the annoying noise that is ABC’s The […]
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