Born and raised in Silicon Valley, I attended Stevens Creek Elementary, John F. Kennedy Jr. High, and Monta Vista High. After high school I moved to Los Angeles to attend the University of Southern California, initially intending on obtaining a degree in architecture. However, after two years in that program, for a variety of reasons, I changed my major to Civil Engineering, with an emphasis in Building Science. It has taken me quite some time to achieve my degree, and as of right now, I still have a little work left to do. Ideally, I'd like to work in emerging construction techniques — materials and methods that have been slow in adoption in America due, primarily, to labor costs.

I have been fortunate enough to be able to travel extensively, having visited three continents, twenty-two countries, and thirty-two states plus Washington, D.C. Three of these trips have been as a part of some choir tour. In 1994, I traveled with my father's choir to Germany, the Czech Republic and Hungary. In 1996, as part of my high school chamber choir, the Madrigals, I went to South America, to Peru, Brazil and Argentina. In 1997, again with the Madrigals, I returned to Europe, this time to Poland and again to the Czech Republic.

Music has always played a major role in my life. Beginning with piano lessons when I was quite young, I became frustrated with my lack of progress, and switched to voice. I sang in a children's choir for a couple of years, until finally I left that group as I was the only boy in the choir of sixteen. Had I not been only ten years old at the time, I might not have thought this was so bad a situation. However, leave I did, though I continued to sing in church. I joined the "choir," as it were, at church in 1988, being the only child in an all adult group. When I'm at home, I still sing with the same group, though many of the members have changed in the last fifteen years. About the same time that I left the children's choir, I took up the clarinet. But, after two years of that, I gave up, again frustrated with my lack of progress. In high school, as I mentioned above, I was a member of an elite performing chamber choir called the Madrigals. We performed for weddings, private parties, elementary schools, school assemblies, or just for tips. Each year we took a tour in the spring. I joined the music group at the church I began attending in L.A. when I got to USC. After several months with this group, we decided we were pretty hot stuff, and decided to record ourselves. This ambition became an obsession, and begat News At Eleven. We put out our first album, Have You Not Heard, in February of 2000, and are currently working on our second album. Through this group I have met great friends, learned much about music — making it, recording it, appreciating it — and have taken up yet another instrument: bass guitar. I have been playing for about four years now, and while my progress is still perhaps slower than most, it is steady. I enjoy it enough to keep with it, and it gives me a greater appreciation for musicianship than I ever had while just singing. Now, although News At Eleven is scattered across several time zones (and two continents), I still sing at the same church, the USC Catholic Center.