ABOUT ME
I am a professional performing and
recording musician living in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I
lead a popular polka-variety band committed to
preserving the traditional sounds that made Milwaukee famous. I also
write and produce music in other genres.
I grew up in a household full of
highly-accomplished musicians,
including a church organist, jazz bassists, and a heavy metal drummer.
I
started playing the piano when I
was just
tall
enough to see over the keyboard, received my first drum set when I
was
ten years old, started taking tuba lessons in the 4th grade, picked
up
the bass guitar in the 7th grade, and somewhere in the middle of all
that, I
began
playing the accordion.
I officially started my musical
career
at age eleven, occasionally playing drums with a dixieland band. In
1986 at the age of sixteen, I joined my first polka band, and remained
with them for twenty years. During that time, I became
involved with
several other bands in the
Milwaukee
area and also started up my own band.
In 1990, I opened a home-based recording
studio called Polkasound
Productions. For the next 30 years, my studio provided audio and
graphic design services to musicians and business in the Milwaukee
area. Today Polkasound
Productions is a developer of
polka-oriented virtual instruments for computer-based musicians and
composers.
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