Fearless in the business arena, I’m a architect of innovative ideas and thrive on turning dreams into reality.
Behind the MPC, Keyboard & Soundboard, I orchestrate beats, tweak frequencies, and breathe life into melodies.
In the digital labyrinth, I’m a troubleshooter and repair whisperer.
From the music studio to the computer workbench, my life is a symphony of creativity, technology, and relentless ambition.
Born and raised in the heart of Music City, the youngest of four brothers, art has always been a part of my life. Everyone in my family from my brothers to my mother and father have skills that vary from pencil, ink, paint, and music. My oldest brother Robert is a absolute master of pencil art. Damon the second to oldest is excellent with pencil, ink and color. My father is handy with a pencil as well. Our mom is a singer as well as a skilled painter, her favorite being oil painting. Now, me…I prefer the simple life of just a pen and pencil.
When it comes to music rather it was my mother singing around the house or Freddy Jackson, MC Hammer, Whitney Houston, or Keith Sweat blasting from whatever stereo was going in the house, I’ve always enjoyed and felt a deep connection with music. I often found myself tapping and beating on tables or walls. When no surface was available, I would do some sort of closed mouth beatbox. The inner sides of my teeth were used as hihats and kicks while I would slam my tongue down on the floor of my mouth to simulate a snare drum. I still do that to this day. It’s how I come up with many of my music concepts.
When I was around 12 or 13 years old I got my first computer. A Packard Bell Multimedia F170 with a Pentium 133mhz CPU, 16MB Ram, 1.7GB Hard Drive, and 2MB Video Memory. I guess you can say, computers became my special interest. Everything else took a backseat. I hyper focused for years eventually becoming a computer technician doing hardware and software repair as well as building PCs. I did this as a hobby as well as serve many customers around from Gallatin, Hendersonville, Lebanon, Mt Juliet, Hermitage, Antioch, Brentwood, and of course all of Nashville.
In 2003 when I dove headfirst into music production. I recall getting a demo of Acid Music Demo software on a cd from a computer magazine. That was my gateway into working in music professionally. A buddy from work was aspiring singer and introduced me to Fruity Loops. He had the beat making software, I had the recording software. Equipped with only a Dell Optiplex GX100 PC, Acid Music and Fruity Loops software and a cheap Radio Shack 6 track mixer, the musical journey began.
We worked on music day in and day out. Our equipment scaled pretty quickly to pro audio hardware and software and even a few booths, one homemade and one built into our home. While there were some highlights such as recording, mixing, and mastering a demo for an artist from the Midwest who was visiting Nashville and working with a few other local artists, many years passed with little success. Around 2009 my focus switched back to computers. Music was great, but we were not getting any younger and I needed to make a decent living with my girlfriend at the time. So I built a website to advertise and take appointments and was back on the road doing computer and phone repairs. Music remain in the background for a little while. Eventually I had completely left it behind and moved on.
Fast forward to 2023 I had a decent amount of cash from my job saved. The pandemic was dying down, but the economy being the way it was, I knew nothing was certain. One night it hit my dead in the face….ya boy got skills. I nice with computers, I can build website, AND make music with mixing and mastering skills to go with it as well as advertise from when I ran a computer repair business. It all came full circle. I brushed up on my skills and now in 2024, I’m launching High Heat Beats, an online store for Beat sales and leasing. This time I have a clear mission, goal, and vision.
I’m scaling heights and pushing boundaries