The years before and up to 2008 held a lot of good memories and unfortunately even more bad ones than good ones for the longest time. Without rehashing that information in detail here on this page, I want to tell the story of how this album came to be.
in the mid early 90’s I had been performing for nearly 10 years at a variety of places and wanted to branch my capabilities out to more exciting things like theater, film & tv, and more. I was yearning for a nightclub act to develop and then I ended up getting cast in quite a few shows back to back for a period of 2-3 years. It boosted my confidence in many ways, had a definite improvement to my vocal capabilities, and it seemed like everything was going perfectly, finally. I had wanted to perform pretty much all my life and not only was I getting the opportunity to do it, I was getting better at it all the time and expectations also became higher from those who were assisting me at the time.
I had almost signed with record labels two different times at that point, and I just felt that was my destiny . to be a recording artist, write and perform my own music, and just run with it. Some of my song ideas were pretty good and received well, and then a few came along as more of a conceptualistic idea of what a certain song could turn out to be. One of those ideas was “Worth The Wait”; a song about love that I believed to be well written musically but I struggled with a version for vocals. What I wrote was trite and I never let one soul hear the original lyrics. That was in 1993 or 1994.
I would play the song on the piano every now and then to remember howto play it and to hear it, but no more recording since that first version.
Then I started becoming ill in 2007 and 2008, and that lasted for several years and was very scary. I was approaching my early and mid 40’s and didn’t know how much longer I was going to “be around”…. and it was very sad to think “Wow, was this really worth the wait?”
Just as fleetingly that thought flew away until 2009 when I started getting better and healing in many ways . I found that I not only wanted to heal quickly, I wanted to move past some major ghosts in my life, some of which have kept progress at bay on many personal levels, but that is the way that whole things.. you are given what you can handle (usually) and you should have some support around you while you try to grow…. Some other things changed and I began getting better by leaps and bounds, and I found that I had many songs blossoming within me – some good, some not so good, some about subjects I’d never sang about before or even thought about, but I also realized that the lyric content was going much stronger and easier and that has progressed even to this day.
By 2014 I’d lost 135 pounds, felt wonderful, was working out and looking great, and I decided that the BEST way to deal with the emotional turmoil was to write everything down into song – to not only challenge myself to get this story out of my head but to also help bring strength to anyone else who was suffering. And with that, the real purpose behind Worth The Wait began.
The album will be out September 1, 2020, – my 55th birthday – come hell or high water, even in the face of this pandemic. It was enough to send me back to school full time to start, and finish, my Bachelors of Science in Audio Production. The benefits have been amazing – it’s made me grow as an artist, changed the way and manner in which I write and given me technical prowess I severely lacked before. And now, I have a collection of 13 songs that tell my STORY, my life, and give many hints at who I became through some very rough times.
You can check it out at www.worththewaitproject.com – I’m very proud of it. Still in demo mode and not fully updated at the moment, but it’s there.