I AM NOW LIVING AND BASED IN THE U.S.A TO DO MUSIC!
4 years ago, i took a giant leap of faith as a 21 year old to follow a crazy God given idea to leave a stable job, family and friends to go to the USA for 6 months in hopes to find new opportunities and see what i’d be able to do with music as a career. In those 6 months i was skyrocketed with opportunities I’ve only dreamt of doing with music and gaining connections with people in the music industry who not only take their work in music seriously, but looked after me and treated me like family as a young person not knowing anyone in a different country in a super risky business that normal people in society wouldn’t understand. I never felt more understood and appreciated as a musician in my life til i got to the United States and after that moment, i couldn’t go backwards and not do music full time. And I knew that i wanted to make the USA my home.
The next 3 years would be the most challenging continuing to do music full time in a country where music work is super tough, super small and during a time of covid lockdowns, witnessing my mums stroke, moving house and lack of opportunities, i continued to have faith and hold on to staying to do music no matter how small and insignificant it seemed and how small of an income i was (and still am) making. I’ve turned down any job offers that weren’t related to music and even jobs that would take time away from my role as a part time music director at my church which i really and stayed faithful to because i really truly believed that one day an opportunity was going to open up to do music again in America even though I literally wanted to give up, if there wasn’t any opportunity for me to go back to the USA and i knew that if I wasn’t going back, i would have to consider doing something other than music full time if i were to keep living in Australia. I have been risking EVERYTHING. I’m not the most talented musician that would make artists turn heads and want to hire me or record labels interested in my work, but I continue to work hard, love what i do and believe for the best.
Even though its been super frustrating and hard over the last 3 years doing music full time, I’m thankful to have been offered a small part time role as a music director in my church that i grew up in and thrived in during the hardest times and partnered with people to grow in Christ and get the church back on its feet and better than ever after the lockdowns, figured out to use the internet to my advantage in creating musical content that gave value, online productions, sessions, making amazing sounding guitar presets and being someone to help build people up because an absolute miracle opened up in September 2022 which i Can’t thank God enough for.
My friend Alec Rees all the way in Michigan, USA (who i met in Sydney in 2019 via @droff) offered me an opportunity to go back to the USA and flew me over in October 2022 and offered me a role as a music director at Central Wesleyan Church in Holland, Michigan which will allow me to live in the US and work while also allowing me to live out my dreams as a session/touring musician and music producer for any other projects or artists who would be interested to work with me.
This has been such a journey in the making and I can’t wait to be living my new life in the USA doing music from 2024 and beyond! Thank you to the amazing people who have worked so hard to try and sponsor me and get these documents sorted and had unreal patience to get to this point. I take no glory from this but only give thanks and Glory to Jesus Christ alone because I wouldn’t be anything without him!