Ever since receiving my first album, I knew “what I wanted to be when I grew up”. I had to create music. 

I received my first guitar (a bright red  strat-style electric) as a gift for my 11th birthday and guitar lessons for Christmas that same year. I fell in love with the instrument immediately and there was no looking back. While a young David may have dreamed of being a rocker, I always felt a draw to the sound of an acoustic guitar. As the years went on those childhood dreams turned into a fascination with more intricate and intimate instrumental music. Hearing the fingerstyle instrumental epic “Ocean” by John Butler for the first time set me on a completely different path which led to me finding my musical voice, ironically without actually using my voice like I always thought I would. 

So much for belting out rock ballads to stadiums filled with people.

Dealing with chronic illness for most of my life, music has been an incredible outlet. I think the famous Norwegian painter Edvard Munch said it best: “Art comes from joy and from pain… but mostly from pain.” I’ve certainly found that to be true both for the art that resonates with me as well as the things that I desire to create. 

I’m grateful every day to have a Creator that gave us the ability to create and absorb art that can help us make sense of this hurting, and often confusing, world.

In 2017, I released my first EP titled “Trust” featuring 4 original instrumental compositions inspired by my experience with chronic illness and the faith in the God that has always held me up through it. 

In 2020, I released a new single titled “Distance and Time” written in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and followed up later that year by the full length album “A Year in Review” featuring songs written and produced while the world was on lockdown.