Being a kid from the Philippines who had a career in blues at 15, my future looked as bright as it could. I was called Lightning Kid by the Señors of blues in our country for how I performed a range of renowned pieces by Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Three Kings (B.B. King, Freddie King, and Albert King), Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, and the like. This talent brought me to parts of the world I never knew, at a young age, I’d get to see - The New Daisy Theater on Beale Street in Memphis, The Royal Albert Hall in London, Aomori in Japan. 

For another 15 years of my life, all I did was play the blues, and every time I did, I would pour my heart and soul into it. Until one night, at a regular bar gig, it struck me that for 15 years, I have been telling stories of other people when I have my own story to tell, and so I embraced change. I embraced the discomfort of breaking the shackles of what I used to do because I refuse to die playing the same song every night to the same crowd at the same bar, and so I changed my ways. I wrote my own story, and if you are reading this now, thank you for listening.