My music career has been quite a journey. I grew up in a musical family successful in the entertainment business in Los Angeles Ca. By the time I reached the age of eight years old I found myself performing live shows on stage playing ukulele and singing with my two older sisters my older brother and my mother at Disney Land and Knotts Berry Farm where my mother performed consistantly with her 23 piece renouned hawaiian show band. How cool is that. During that time I picked up a guitar and the rest is history I found my calling! Since then Ive enjoyed a successful career in this crazy wonderful business consistantly performing thousands of live shows throughout the US. including television and radio. For the past 40 years Ive been a recording studio session guitar stylist in Los Angeles CA,

Nashville, New York and Las Vegas. I have found success as a song writer, composer, lyricist, music arranger and music producer. Performing and recording a wide variety of popular original music genres and styles. This profession continues today. Performing live to an audience who loves to celebrate great music is my greatest passion. Its all about the live crowd the live performance and the excellent song choice. In the mid 70's I enjoyed much success and positive recognition throughout Northern CA performing with my band Stage Fright. In Nov 1979 my sister Dawn and I were offered a recording contract by music producer John Parks in Las Vegas NV. We both agreed and moved to Vegas to begin recording. We also began performing live shows on the Las Vegas strip and downtown Vegas as a duet performing with a number of great musican's, recording artists and entertainers throughout our journey. In 1982 I was offered a performing band entertainment contract with the Frank Moore agency in Las Vegas.This is where my Las Vegas music career truly began. This allowed me to stretch my legs as a lead guitarist frontman and move forward with my own versatile show band (The MotherLoad)  performing and enjoying enormous success throughtout Vegas, Reno, Lake Tahoe and beyond. Exclusively Booked through Frank Moore entertainment by Mr Penny Mayo one of the most respected and loved agents in the music business He decided I was The Guitar Man. He believed in me as a guitar stylist entertainer and frontman. He booked me non-stop until his passing in 1986. By then I had established myself successfully throughout the music circut as a versatile lead guitarist frontman with my own Las Vegas show and continued to successfully move forward. Throughout the years Ive put together even more successful groups in Las Vegas. One band in particular stands out! GYPSY SKY. 1991 - 1994 This talented versatile band took Vegas by storm! and was voted #1 Country dance band in 1992. Being a versatile session guitarist Ive recorded with Multi hit maker Grammy winning music producer Keith Olsen at Sound City Studios - GoodNight LA. R&B hip hop hit songwriter producer singer Devante Swing and his group Jodeci. Rapper Flo Rida. Tom Parham at Hit Track Recording Studios in Las Vegas NV. Mega country music hit songwriter producer Earl Bud Lee in Nashville TN. Legendary Top blues producer of Kent Records. Also well known as the God Father of Rap. Mr Morey Alexander. The List goes on. This versatile music schooling throughout the decades has given me the ability to create my latest show performing as a single! Yet I am a complete band! A one man show with occasional guests vocalists for special events. Completed by well produced backing tracks. All instruments performed and produced by Pat Navarre at (Dare to Be Original productions) Consisting of a powerhouse rhythm section including percussion bass guitar piano keyboard synthesizer a full string section Hammond B3 organ and a horn section. Creating a versatile dynamic foundation allowing me to highlight and feature my lead guitar work and vocals. Most importantly my crowd pleasing song choice's span seven decade's. Great songs are timeless and they document those precious moments in time throughtout our lives. It is my unstoppable passion to take my audience on a journey by featuring a versatile mix of those hit songs that not only helped shape each decade, but to also take each person to that special moment in their life when they hear their special songs. Throughout my shows I also pay tribute to Some of the most respected and celebrated guitarist throughout R-n-R Music history. Music is a precious gift a celebration of life and those certain special songs are a powerful reminder of those special moments in time throughtout our lives. Contact me for booking's and together we will celebrate seven decades of some of the best moments of music history.

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