My roots are American / Caribbean with my mother a pastor and preacher from the island of Dominica. My late father was a great Blues harmonica player from Chicago. I didn't grow up with my parents but had a chance to meet my father before he died. I was into HipHop at that time after coming through from Heavy Metal, RnB, Drum&Bass and had no interest in my father's pleas to meet some of his great friends in the Blues, thinking it to be a pre-historic music. How wrong can a man be !!    

My first brush with the Blues was as a teenager of 16...I was obsessed with Sunny Terry & Brownie McGee and Elmore James, enough to beg my girlfriend at the time to buy me an acoustic guitar. I played acoustic for about six months with a friend called Alex on harmonica and suppose, as neither of us could sing at the time, it was short lived. I moved on to Heavy Metal and signed to Sony for three years but gave it up to move into HipHop, RnB, Drum&Bass and computer music in general, which helped focus my songwriting capability.                                                                                                                            A miracle came with my father's passing away...I took one of his records (You shook me all night long by John Lee Hooker & BB King)...now get this people, I've always wanted to sing and as it appears, due to the choice of music I've been into, never could...but now I started singing along with this record and discovered my voice was a lot deeper than I had ever thought to look before (nothing like the Heavy Metal screeching I wanted to do)...discovering my clear deep, harmonically rich overtoned voice was a life-changing spiritual experience and singing the Blues is all I've wanted to do since. So I formed my band and set out to play both traditional and modern Blues alike...truth is I've never seen a cornfield and wasn't around during the industrial revolution of Chicago, but I feel, hear and respect the Blues of yesterday and my love for this deeply spiritual music had me to believe the only way to keep it alive is to keep it relevant and in sync with today's society & environment. I never had the chance to hear or meet any of our music's greats other than Buddy Guy and it is a shame for all us Blues fans that the majority of our heroes are dead. However, hearing dead men's licks from books wasn't enough for me - and I hope all you Blues fans - to express the feelings and inspiration I get from this music and I realise going forward and not backward is the only way our music will survive without becoming institutionalised music relics. I know the great masters just played whatever instruments they had and had fun, which is why their music was so spiritual and alive and that's what I try and do.