I'm a boomer who still thinks he's 25. In 2018, I relocated from San Diego to Palm Springs and I seem to be thriving in my new home town. I'm making friends, finding some musical partners, and embracing health and happiness.

My original songs come from the heart and from my life. Although my message has particular appeal for progressive types, I've been known to win over a bigger audience that crosses all lines -- gender, sexual orientation, age, and even (gasp) political persuasions.

I think you'll like my music. I really come alive in performance. But let's start from the beginning ...

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My Musical Journey

So what do you do when, at age four, you already know that singing is the greatest joy in life. Well, I decided to just keep singing. And I have kept it up for over six decades now.
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Although I wasn’t technically writing songs at age four, the few songs that I did know, I sang with great conviction. Singing with an open heart has become one of my trademarks. I didn’t write “Bring Him Home” from Les Miserables or “Could I Leave You” from Follies — but I try to sing those songs like I scribbled those notes and words myself.

I grew up with AM radio and heard a lot of incredible music at every stage of growing up. I still love to sing radio commercials that I heard in the 50s and 60s in small towns across America. But the real magic wasn’t the commercials — it was the music of Elvis and Buddy Holly and Bobby Rydell and Tommy Roe and Ray Charles and Guy Mitchell and Marty Robbins and, yeah, some girls in there, too — Patsy Cline, Leslie Gore, Brenda Lee, Connie Francis. And all the groups: The Coasters, Drifters, Temptations, Ronettes, Chiffons, Chirelles, . . . I know, it’s all coming out in torrents. And all of this was pre-Beatles, mind you. The arrival of those four lads marked another watershed moment in popular culture. And then there was Woodstock. And the California sound. And, and, and — a constant barrage of life-giving music that shaped my young life.

There’s another major influence that I can now bring up (‘cause we’re friends, right?) — and that would be showtunes. What a cliché! Well, Dad was a fantastic singer and a bit of an ham, so he brought home all the cast albums of the great musicals: Oklahoma, Carousel. My Fair Lady, The Music Man, Man of la Mancha. These shows had so many great songs that were filled with story and emotion and character. Everything wonderful that music can be in a young boy’s life was there for me. All of these influences (along with a moderate dose of Classical albums that Mom picked up at the grocery store) are now manifest in my eclectic musical personality.

Fast forward to college and I’m playing and singing in stairwells with buddies and loving it all over again but now I’m making the music! Another epiphany: Music isn’t just FOR us, it’s BY us. As an adult, I’ve sung nearly continually (ask my friends) -- a million-plus songs, written a few, done some concerts, brought some fun and tears to some audiences and now — it’s all I want to do.

The Friends & Lovers Concert series — from 1987 through 1996 — raised thousands of dollars for AIDS support organizations and other community-based nonprofits and they gave me a chance to collaborate with so many fantastic musicians in San Diego — Mary Barranger, Kenny Ard, Peggy Watson, Kay Etheridge, and
many more.

With the 2009 release of my first CD, Bring Love Home, I embarked on a new chapter in my musical journey — one that put music at the very center of my life. This album project also solidified my enduring collaboration with Drew Massicot. The ten originals on the Bring Love Home CD address topics of interest to the community I live in. They have a decidedly progressive point of view and I hope that the music can reach hearts and change minds on some of the critical issues of our day — homelessness, mental illness, marriage equality, loss of loved ones, and more.

Since that first CD launch, I have now recorded four more albums — December (2011), This I Promise You (2012), Just in Time (2013) and All of Me (2016). With each CD project, I continue to stretch, to collaborate with more musicians, and to feel more and more like the music man I've always dreamed I was.

Going forward, I am planning a packed musical calendar — concerts and club dates, albums, benefit concerts, and more. I hope to see you on my musical journey ahead.

​Peace and Love, always.

I’ve decided that what I love doing the most — making music that touches people’s hearts — will now become my life’s work.

​Collaborating with like-minded and like-hearted musicians represents an unrivaled joy in my life and I know many musical adventures await me.

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