Hi and Welcome!

Where to start? I’ve had an unusual career as a singer-songwriter and, now, a video creator. I only started writing songs in 2014 when I was almost 60 years old. I had been terminated as Senior Paralegal from Lee Memorial Health System during the mortgage meltdown and financial crisis and could not find other employment.

To make matters worse, I separated from my wife and was going through a divorce. I had left  only with the bare essentials and two dogs, Sam and Joey, the only things I really cared about and wanted. We rented a small one-bedroom apartment and they were right by my side every night, listening and watching me play guitar, drink lots of wine, and sometimes cry. I started writing music in my pain. My dogs and music became my life. 

I could not find employment and started Coastal Research & Investigations, a private investigative agency specializing in electronic discovery and computer forensics. I also started playing my guitar in public and was soon playing at some of the best resorts and other venues in the southwest part of Florida, to include Naples, Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel Island, and Captiva.

I recorded my first album, "Ruff Draft", in 2016, but had to stop performing live in 2018 due to peripheral neuropathy in my legs that presented mobility issues. I started physical therapy and was hoping to return to live performances when the COVID pandemic hit and all the live music venues closed. So, I started writing a lot more songs during the quarantine and would share my music by performing songs live on Facebook as a way to provide a little online entertainment for people until live venues reopened.

I released my second album "Climb on Board" in 2021 and "Younger Than Ever" in 2023. I also competed in the 2022 and 2023 Sounds of Summer Singer-Songwriter Competition where two of my songs made it to the finals and which I performed before judges and an audience at the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center in downtown Fort Myers. But I didn't win.

And lastly, I would be remiss not to introduce Mike DiVito, the real “artist” behind the curtain when I call myself a recording artist. He takes my songs to another level. Mike not only played the instruments on my last two albums, but he is also my recording engineer with a special gift for blending sounds, tracks, and melodies into something above and beyond. Please buy our records so Mike can quit his daytime job.