Education: I received my BA in Liberal Studies with a Minor in African American Studies and an emphasis in Music from SF State University (June 2021). I received the first John Handy Scholarship entering the music department at SF State in 2008. I also received a full scholarship to Berkeley School of Music in 1987 which I declined to go on a tour with the late J Spencer, Motown Mo Jazz Recording artist who passed on in 2004. I attended grade school in the Oakland Unified schools (Brookfield Elementary and King Estates Jr High) I attended high school at Berkeley High School and was the drummer for the award-winning jazz band in 1986 and 87 under the direction of Charles Hamilton. I attended all the Peralta Community Colleges (Alameda, Laney and Merritt) before attaining my BA. And I was always in the music community of the bay area and abroad.