A little more about my artistic journey.

I'm an artist. I know this is general but it's honestly the only way I can describe what I do. Growing up, I drew. All the time. I was pretty good too. In highschool, my teacher let me instruct the class for a couple days since I was ahead of the bunch. I knew I didn't want to be an artist of that nature though because I saw no money in it. I mean, I know I didn't want to be an art teacher and I figured you only got rich off your work when you die. So that was out of the question. After High School I went to community college. I decided I wanted to be a director and make movies. I started taking classes with intentions of transferring somewhere in California. However, one fine day a friend of mine dragged me to an audition. It was improv so no real experience was needed. Since I had a knack for that sort of thing, she thought of me and brought me along. Well, I got a part and she didn't. So, I got into acting. My first gig was a show called Tony N Tina's wedding. After my first semester of school, I said ok I'll take this route instead. In front of the camera, behind it, what's the difference. Bye school. I played a few roles in the show and did that for a hot second until my fellow cast members lead me to getting headshots and applying to a couple local agencies. That went well, got cast in a couple national commercials, got in S.A.G. pretty quick and made a few bucks. Nothing crazy though. While that was happening I started getting interested in Music. I had always been a fan of rap but never even considered the idea of being rapper until one day my father heard something I recorded. He was shocked and from that point on pushed me to pursue a career in it. This was just before I was moving to NYC to take acting classes and further my career in acting. So I did both. When I moved to NYC, it was acting classes by day and open mics by night. The better I got as a rapper, the less I cared about acting. I was doing improv, scene studying, cold reads, even Meisner (Which is some crazy shit I might add). I really learned a lot but I felt like I wasn't ready for acting. I could do it, but I couldn't do it as well as I wanted to...yet. I felt like I needed a maturity and a lack of self consciousness that I hand't acquired. I mean I was only 19 or 20 at the time. Plus, I wanted to see this new found passion for Hip Hop through. I figured if I made it as a rapper, acting could easily follow. However, the other way around seemed more difficult. So, acting got the back burner and Music got promoted. After a few years in NYC I made my way back to MI. All the while, still rapping, and still doing whatever acting jobs I got from the local agencies I was still with. To date I've rapped all over the country and many parts of Italy.I have an album on itunes and an album nationally distributed in Italy. I've been in both national and regional commercials. I've been in magazines both in America and Italy. I've been in commercial print ads for Ford and other companies. I've been on talk shows, radio shows, and I'm still not satisfied. In fact I really feel like I'm just getting started. My most recent itch was photography. I had been wanting to style photoshoots because I've always been into fashion and I had spoken to a good friend of mine who had done a few photoshoots for me about a possible collaboration. Her busy schedule lead me to getting my own camera so that I can eventually shoot and style my own shoots. Well, now that I have my own camera, I can also shoot HD video. Which leads me to present day. I still draw, I still rap,I still produce/compose, I still act, I now write, I now direct, I now shoot, I now edit. Essentially my goal is to be able to do all of these things as well as whichever one of them I am best at. I'm an artist from head to toe. I'm grateful that ideas still come to me and I hope they never stop. It's a beautiful torture to finally get comfy in bed, and suddenly have an idea where you have to get up to write it down. I'll be sad when that stops. Or i'll just be sleeping.