Music has been in me for as long as I can remember. I didn’t have the discipline for piano, but at ten my parents gifted me my first instrument: a clarinet that became my gateway to falling in love with sound. Over the last twenty years I’ve moved between many instruments. Somewhere along the way, I picked up a guitar and learned how to let my voice sing. Music is everywhere, all the time. I’m continually in love with learning how to hear it.

It’s hard to say when my journey with organizing and undoing white supremacy began. I can trace its roots to childhood books that humanized people my culture demonizes, and hard questions my teachers asked in high school and college. In 2007, I lived and traveled in India, Nepal and Tibet for a semester, which thoroughly shattered the white Californian suburban worldview I’d grown up with.

Somewhere between Trayvon Martin’s murder and the Ferguson uprising, I learned how anti-blackness, along with indigenous genocide and land theft, is one of the keystones upholding American white supremacy. I became determined to devote myself to the work of uprooting it as much as I could from myself and my communities, a path I will walk for the rest of my life.

In 2015, I founded The Seventh String, a transcendental folk band that released its debut album Off To Starboard in 2018. My solo debut RAINBOW SHADOWS came out on November 19, 2021, and in 2022 I moved from Austin, Texas to Richmond, Virginia, prompting a wholesale reorientation in relationship to my communities, lands, and places.

These days, my fans get poetry, musical and life updates over on my Patreon, and I am embarking on my next endeavor: an ancestral European music project that teaches white people to sing songs of our ancestors, while also confronting the incomprehensible harm our people caused as we left our traditional cultures & became tools of American white supremacy.

Through singing, education, discussion, and somatic practices, I want this project to help us confront our ancestors’ complicity in American genocide, enslavement, and empire, reconnect with our ancestors gave up, and explore how white supremacy, privilege, and dominator culture still live & express through our own bodies and lives.