This is my Story

I’m a prophetic musician, coach, author and seer. I’ve spent most of my years being up on stages singing, playing trumpet, leading worship, or as of recent, learning how to rock on an American Telecaster that was gifted to me by the universe. That’s what most of my life story revolves around: metaphysical manifestations by the divine, portrayed through my life; prophetic insights — as early as the age of 3 and 4 for both.

I’ve lived most of my life feeling “split in two” — and that’s just the dilemma I hope to help others with. Down to the date, details and location of the day — I was born a bridge-builder — and also someone who had no problem making the family skip church for my arrival. It’s a natural state of being for a small percentage of the population — which is why it sometimes difficult to find, "where we belong."

Music became a clear calling in my life when I was 13, singing both in choir and playing trumpet in jazz band at school. My teachers noticed my talent and asked me if I wanted to do a big-band arrangement, which was something they hadn’t done before. I sang the song, “Tangerine”, and during that performance, I knew I would be singing for the rest of my life. This also planted the intuitive thought, that my life's work would consist of the concept of “fusion”. It would however, be another 20 years till I found out what about. 

I wouldn’t say I was an exceptional singer though — mainly I had a good ear and could drive the melody. I wasn’t a young child star like so many prodigies we know of — I really had to work to have an exceptional singers voice. Looking back, I had a suppressed voice in the other areas of my life due to traumatic experiences robbing me of it, including a 15-year suppressed memory that didn’t just stifle my voice, it silenced my character, expression, autonomy and sense of freedom. You can hear the difference that memory recovery makes on the voice when you listen to my music with Black Bird Collective. False Identities album was produced well before I recovered my suppressed trauma; where GET OUT OF MY WAY was produced 7 months after the most harrowingly dark experience of my life. The lesson learned in all of this: don’t count on waking up — metaphorically, or literally. 

The human voice takes up over half the body. When you use your voice you create blood flow, energy, movement, a rising temperature within the body. When you speak or sing, you are using about 100 muscles in your body. One hundred. In other words, your voice is everything, it is the organ of your soul. When you speak or sing, you are transmuting a thought or feeling into sound waves. You actually bring your subconscious to its own awareness by emitting sound into the physical realm. Thoughts and aspirations then become a tangible experience to sort through or work towards.

We know that sound can cause things to move. This is true with your voice - where language is a critical part of determining one's steps and healing trauma.

With trauma, with your dreams, with anything, when you give language to them, you are letting them live. With my C-PTSD, I lived for 15 years with a suppressed traumatic memory that I was able to uncover solely by using my voice. You can heal everything in your life, change anything in your life, just by speaking, listening and taking action. 

If you are here and wanting change in your life, just ask yourself, "Is that my voice saying this, or someone else's?" If it is your voice, challenge yourself to reject the negative thoughts and reframe your subconscious mind. 

Get talking — the right way.