[0:00] [Music] [0:04] con [0:07] con we took music lessons and vocal [0:09] lessons at KS Music Conservatory for [0:11] Performing Arts since here in Woodbury [0:13] and I had this amazing vocal instructor [0:16] for like 11 years her name is Andrea [0:19] wheeler and she changed my entire life [0:23] she showed me how to use my voice she [0:26] taught me that it is an instrument and [0:28] so I really appreciate her her [0:32] guidance I got involved in music at a [0:35] really really young age I was [0:37] three and I had just gone over to the [0:42] panel that we had in our house and just [0:44] started clunking something out my mom [0:46] thought it sounded really really good [0:47] and so she was like okay for a [0:49] three-year-old you kind of don't suck [0:51] let's get you into some lessons and [0:52] kadence had just recently stopped uh [0:55] piano lessons so they still had like the [0:58] plan for lessons so they just show me in [1:00] there um and I I stuck with [1:03] it in my head guitar players are like [1:07] the Pinnacle of coolness so it was [1:10] guitar all the way my guitar music [1:12] teacher Jeff brusi taught me at knns [1:15] Conservatory of Music and was very [1:17] influential and it wasn't until I [1:21] started taking it seriously that we [1:24] started to really connect and like Bond [1:26] on a like a cool teacher student level [1:30] he he really instilled a sense of like [1:33] perseverance and uh dedication into my [1:36] playing and I appreciate that I can kind [1:39] of let out any type of energy I am [1:41] feeling on the Drums Jerry Shelton from [1:45] ath and Science Academy was a huge [1:47] inspiration for me and I just really [1:50] appreciated like his presence and [1:51] confidence in me I was like put in a in [1:54] an upper class and I'd get kind of looks [1:56] like why are you here I just really [1:58] appreciated that he was like no you're [2:00] going to be in my class cuz I I want you [2:01] to be here and you deserve to be here [2:03] and um I just think about that a lot and [2:05] it makes me really happy