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I'm born 06/06/2006
It's a boy! Hilariously born on el dia del diablo, I was also born to Pixar's movie Cars playing in all the waiting rooms, patient rooms, and essentially all over the globe. Always has, and will be my favorite movie, Literally! -
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Wagon Wheel
My mother would frequently rock me to sleep singing the song "Wagon Wheel", a song that I haven't heard in over a decade but can still recite word to word. This probably had a massive influence of my feel for music -
"This is a piano?"
Thanksgiving of 2012, my Uncle, Patrick Disbrow, introduces me to his parents (my grandparents') old piano in their unfinished basement. As he asks if I know any songs from piano, I remember the song Hall of the Mountain King and Fur Elise, both of which I have never played, only heard. I take about 10 minutes and recite both songs surprisingly well. As he asks if I've ever played piano before and I respond with no, I think I quickly became his favorite nephew. -
Finders Keepers
Sometime in 2014, my grandparents found out about my aspiration towards the piano as they later found a piano an old friend of theirs were trying to get rid of to move. The piano was listed on facebook marketplace for free and they decided who else better to hand it down to than me. The old out of tune piano was placed in my room at my old house, and the piano surprisingly stays in that room to this day! -
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Piano's lessons
For a whole five years of my life, that piano taught me almost everything I learned about music without having a lesson in my life. The thought always crossed my mind to check out what piano lessons The Music Cottage had to offer, but my argument always was and will be that learning how piano should work would ruin my flow and style. If there's anything that should teach me how to play the piano, it's the piano. -
Fukashigi No Carte
Coming from an old anime I used to watch, the song Fukashigi No Carte is still my favorite song to play and improvise with. The title roughly translating to "A medical case that cannot be solved", the title and the anime weren't what had the influence on me to love it, it was the sounds it would produce that would. -
Moving Out
After a series of unfortunate events mostly landing on me from my father, a divorce and leaving was finally placed July 1st of 2019. Avoiding detail, his actions have and will always stay with me and make me a better person than him in the end. As I only seeked medication and therapy as of recently, my therapy before now has always been the music that will always stay with me to comfort me when I need it. -
A better place
As bringing my piano with me wasn't an option since we had moved into a small condominium unit with neighbors on each wall, Stopping by guitar center and spending every penny I had saved up was a must. I ended up getting a Williams Allegro III, in my opinion, the best budget-friendly option for any pianist looking to get serious in the future. -
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But wait, there's more!
Aside from Fukashigi, moving really opened my eyes to what other music there is out there, having an opened enough mindset to do so. A song I'll mention soon, City of Stars from the movie La La Land also had a large influence on my playing style, introducing an optional funky jazz rhythm to anything I'd like to implement it to. -
Getting somewhere
Adding a few more songs to my catalogue, Fukashigi always being my #1, I learned a variety of songs ranging from slow waltz's to boogie woogie, which for reference is the stereotypical old western tavern pianist-in-the-corner-of-the-room music. Learning this variety will significantly improve my style, flow and methods of playing and learning songs. -
La La Land
The movie La La Land wasn't only a movie to me, it was an introduction to what the modern jazz world of music has to offer. Plenty of songs from the movie such as Hermans Habit, Another Day of Sun and A Lovely Night spoke to me in a way other songs hadn't yet, but City of Stars stuck out to me. -
Going Pro
At this point, having songs of difficulty such as La Campanella, Hungarian Rhapsody, and Paganini's Etude no. 6 under my belt, and songs that spoke emotion like City of Stars, Fukashigi and Observatory, I decided if I ever wanted to make a dream come true, the time was than. Getting a Distributor was simple; anyone who thinks they can make money off you would take you as an Artist. The struggle was being accepted by the big guys. -
Accepted
Early November of 2022, I couldn't be happier with myself. Being accepted by Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Pandora and all the other big companies was a dream come true for me. With only a few songs really prepared to be produced professionally, I was left with my own editing and finalizing to get these songs on the road and uploaded on their streaming platforms. -
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Learning how *they* do it
Looking at artists such as JVKE, Magdalena Bay, even Phoneboy, a small band that blew up in 2021, It only becomes apparent how much of musical geniuses they are once you enter the same competitive scene as them. Trying to keep up with the criticism I'd receive, weather it would be constructive or crude, there always was a struggle to keep up with the constant influx of changes the media wanted. -
The falloff
Massively changing my style of music, I uploaded two songs to my Soundcloud page (largely to avoid copyright claims), BIKE WARRIORS! and Scarry Gary x Stutter were part of a new genre Phonk that is incredibly difficult to make alone. Using other artists songs like Tanger, SXMPRA and Kaito Shoma massively simplified the process allowing me to reach around 1,000 plays in a week for the first time, but keeping up Phonk as my primary genre wasn't what I wanted. -
Now
Since than, I've decided to hold off my hopes of bringing people the same joy I feel through music until I'm really prepared. Without a producer or any guidance, reaching that level of professionalism that the aforementioned artists are currently at is an unreachable goal, but preparing myself to get there one day is the best I can do. I have one song of my own I absolutely adore, currently complete but without lyrics, "Sleep Anymore" that would make the cut with more songs like it along side.