[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