We then went on to Maui spending two-and-a-half weeks recording new music ideas with Lindsey, which years later ended up on the new Fleetwood Mac album. On the second leg of that tour, we opened for Tina Turner in Stadiums around the US, concluding at Radio City Music Hall in NYC. In 1992, I was hired by Lindsey Buckingham from Fleetwood Mac to be one of his guitarists and sing background on his Out of the Cradle tour. I went on to put out an album with my own eclectic folk/jazz trio, Red Van Go, doing two tours of Japan. It was very fun and funky music where we were all featured on our instruments and vocals. He had an all-female band, and we toured throughout the US, Canada, and Australia. Then I started touring with Leon Patillo from Santana on his “Love Around the World” tour. I continued playing in clubs and studied bass with Bunny Brunel and Jeff Berlin. I also developed a love of modern classical music from that same professor. After my music professor at the time, Stephen Ruppenthal, found out I welded, he asked me to create an instrument for one of my class assignments. While living in Eureka, I apprenticed with an artist named Stan Bennett, who welded kinetic sculptures. One of the tracks I played on that album was for Zil and bowed cymbal, played by Paul Whitehead, best known for creating the Genesis album covers. I had also recorded with The Neoteric Orchestra on the album “The Pillory” by Jasun Martz, singing and playing an instrument that I had invented called the Zil – so the studio wasn’t foreign to me. That was my entrance into ASCAP and understanding the importance of royalties. I recorded an EP with them that was used in the 80’s movie Hardbodies. When I graduated, I started touring and recording with the female metal band Vixen. I immediately loved the instrument! I performed at all the rock clubs in LA like The Troubadour, The Whiskey, Madame Wong’s, and all the rest. While getting my music degree at California State University Northridge, I started playing bass in rock bands. My first guitar teacher was Burdell Mathis, who taught Spanish guitar, as well as fingerstyle and Jazz. When we moved from Connecticut to Los Angeles, I started studying the classical guitar as well as accompanying myself singing pop songs. I started singing when I was very young and was in my first musical production at age five.

My Sicilian-born father made his living as an animator and illustrator, and my parents met singing in a choir.

I come from a musical and artistic family.

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