Biography
I was born on the 29th October 1966 and grew up in a small rural village called Maxey near Peterborough Cambridgeshire. I have moved around a bit, but I am now back close to Peterborough.
My first musical inspiration was Elvis Presley; I was about 10 years old when I remember listening to an old vinyl 45 record of Elvis Presley singing "dont be cruel", I was hooked from then. While my friends were spending their pocket money on the latest chart hits I was building up my Elvis collection, by the time I was sixteen I had most of his recordings. I guess it was Elvis that introduced me to a wealth of different styles of music and he did it all so well, he had a real gift of communicating a song with such sincerity and soul. My musical tastes grew from there to many various country and rock and roll singers such as Jerry lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and the Everly Brothers. It was quite unusual for a boy of my age then to be listening to music that was more from my parents era, but little did I know it was feeding my desire to one day be involved in music myself.

Finding a voice
I had no real background in music other than absorbing the music that I was listening to. Like most teenagers I would sing along to my favorite songs. I remember in the school playground we would have some fun, friends and I would often get together and burst in to song, I would often sing lead vocal while my friends would do some form of backing like a 50`s doo wop group, in time my passion for singing and music grew, and often would get asked to sing at friends and family parties.

Barber/Hairdresser
I regrettably left school before I took any exams because I had a job to go to as an apprentice barber at a salon that I had previously been working as a Saturday boy. I can honestly say that I never really felt totally at ease being a barber/hairdresser, to me it seemed a very claustrophobic environment, I was always quite naturally a very physical person not only interest in music, but also very keen on physical pursuits, I seemed to have extra amounts of physical energy that within a barber shop environment there was no release for. That was always a source of frustration for me being so static (I have slowed down a bit now though)....But It gave me a unique education in human character and behaviour,I stuck it out for 20 years learnt my craft well and eventually owned and managed my own salon,I gave up full time hair dressing in 2003, but occasionally do some part time barbering to keep my hand in.