Music was my first language. Classical training gave me the vocabulary.

Music was in my house before I could hold a tune. When I was three, my mother made me a small choir uniform because I cried every time she left to sing with the church's ladies choir. So I sat on her hip through rehearsals, unbeknownst to her, listening and learning closed gospel harmonies. Whatever I know about blend, I learned there first.

By thirteen I was directing my first choir. Over the years I've directed or founded seven gospel choirs across St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the United States, including the LNTCG Youth and Mass Choirs, the New Life Music Ministries Tehilla Children Choir (which grew into Exalt Him Ministries), the SVG Mass Choir, and the Montgomery College Gospel Choir. I also co-founded the a cappella group B Natural during that same season.

The classical side came later. I earned an Associate of Arts in Music from Montgomery College and a Bachelor of Arts in Music Science from Columbia University in the City of New York. At Montgomery College I served as section leader and sometimes vocal arranger for the Chorus, Chamber Singers, and the World and Jazz Ensembles. At Columbia I sang in the Columbia University Choir. My classical repertoire runs through Purcell, Scarlatti, Fauré, Mendelssohn, Schubert, and Vaughan Williams. Learning to sing that music at that level is what changed how I hear gospel, and it's what I bring to consulting work now.

Alongside the performing, I've stayed close to the wider ecosystem. I've sung twice at Carnegie Hall as part of the Masterwork Festival Chorus, served as a Carnegie Hall music ambassador in New York, and joined the American Musicological Society. Music has never been a hobby beside the design career. It's been the throughline.