My journey.

My musical journey started at 19, the year a friend bought a guitar. Watching him play it pulled something open in me, and I taught myself — first on YouTube tutorials, mostly Flamenco.

I played my first paid show at Joplins restaurant in Wilderness, South Africa. Soon after, a drummer and I started a band, and we toured the country with whatever rooms would have us.

The early success came with a cost. I fell into a cycle of parties, drugs, and alcohol that lasted years. I lost connection with the people I loved, with reality, with myself.

I hit an all-time low — paralyzing hopelessness, despair, and grief. I knew I could not keep going the way I was.

I asked God to change my life, and He did. My wife and I were both transformed, and in 2016 we were baptized together. The addictions that had defined me let go.

I started playing music with a different center. On stage one night, I felt clearly that the music I was making was no longer mine — it was meant to be returned to God, who gave it to me in the first place.

Every show, every album, every loop is a way of pointing somewhere beyond me. My hope is that the music reveals Jesus Christ, and that it brings a little healing and peace to people in hard seasons.

I live in Hamburg with my wife. I record everything live. The handpan, the cello, the looper — they are just the tools. The work is the work.