Djing was a complete accident for me. I just fell into it. Being from the small town of Lawton, Oklahoma, there was very little culture or any type of actual dance music scene. However, I was always heavily drawn to all kinds of music. I grew up listening to a lot of classic rhythm and blues and funk. Old Cameo, Fatback, Shalamar, Michael Jackson, the Brothers Johnson, Earth Wind & Fire, Frankie Beverly and Maze… Soul driven, funky music was very appealing to me. Later, I got into Kraftwerk, Soulsonic Force, Malcom McClaren, and other early electro. I started playing piano when I was seven then violin when I was nine so I really opened up and began to appreciate much more the world of music had to offer such as classical music and the like. By the time I got out on my own at age 17, I had learned the drums and some guitar and had a taste of music that spanned from rock to rap. But, house music and electronic music was really what caught my attention.

I would usually have to drive a few hours to Oklahoma City or to Texas to hear really good underground dance music. I was mesmerized by the originality, boldness, and creativity and this sound so I became determined to find this music for my own listening pleasure. I'm old-school so in the 80's, records were available at regular music store chains. I could go into Hastings and buy 12" just as easy as I could buy a CD. So, I started buying 12" because the songs I liked were usually only available in that format. CDs were still fairly new and not every dance song was available on cassette tape. I ended up having a cardboard box full of records. Not a large collection but, enough to have fun listening when I couldn't make it to the club. DJing wasn't even a distant thought.

The closest thing we had to a dance club was a place called Club Elite. It was a teen club but, the average age was around 19. I went there every week…dancing my butt off to New Order, Westbam, Inner City, Bomb the Bass, and lots of old hip hop like Stetsasonic, Redhead Kingpin, Twin Hype, and many more. I became the biggest house head…buying all kinds of vocal house, garage house, and hip house. All I wanted to do was go out and dance as much as possible and find as much music as I could. Then…one day, I made the amazing discovery that I could make beats on a drum machine and time them to acapellas on records. I figured if I could do that, I could definitely match beats with a pair of turntables. So I went to Club Elite and spoke to the DJ. I told him I was interested in djing. He just happened to be moving back to Puerto Rico and said the job was mine. I hadn't even touched the tables yet so basically he threw me to the wolves. I took over his spot and basically began my DJ career. I never even owned my own turntables until 6 years after I started. If I was working, I was practicing and learning. The rest is history as far as DJing. I started producing in 1994. The same year I got my first set of tables. I just happened to get my studio later that year.