Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area.
From an early age, she grew up exposed to a wide range of music genres, including church gospel music, jazz, R&B, and blues. She graduated from Willamette University and Berklee College of Music.

It was performed at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. The original song was chosen as the official song for the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2010 Shanghai Expo.
In 2012, she was invited by the Honduran National Philharmonic Orchestra to arrange and perform for the orchestra, which was a great success. In 2014, she was asked by the Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco to sing the national anthems of both countries at the Emperor's Birthday Celebration Reception. She has released five CDs of jazz standards and original songs that make use of these experiences.

Armed with a diverse repertoire and stage experience, he captivates audiences with his delicate and refined piano technique and his bluesy, heartwarming singing voice, unique to black people, reminiscent of Ray Charles and Nat King Cole.

Born in Rome in 1975. He had a deep interest in music from an early age and studied piano, harmony and jazz improvisation with Stefano Sabatini, Bruno Tommaso and Javier Girotto at the Saint Louis Musical University in Rome. He graduated with honors in composition, choral music and choral conducting at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome. His personal interests and musical skills range from Gregorian chant and Renaissance polyphony to modern avant-garde music. He also studied art, design and architecture at the Via di Ripetta Art High School in Rome. He has participated in various theater and video production teams, making live music and studio recordings, and is also the conductor of the Polyphonic Choir of the Church of San Bellarmine in Rome. In 2009, he moved to Tokyo and in 2010 realized a major project: an Italian restaurant, music hall and Italian cafe, where he worked as the representative, manager, design, music, food and art director. In the same year, he gave a seminar on 20th century electroacoustic music for students of the Faculty of Physics at Yokohama City University. As a professional pianist and composer, he is involved in the international music scene in Tokyo, while teaching classical piano, jazz and theory at the And Vision International Music School in Tokyo. He composes and orchestrates works for different kinds of ensembles and musical genres, ranging from jazz trios, pop rock bands, to symphony orchestras that also create music for commercial videos. In 2017, he gave a lecture on his large-scale work for orchestra, "Muography Symphony", at the French Embassy in Tokyo on the occasion of the Muography Annual General Meeting, and in 2018 at the Tama Art University Museum on the occasion of the exhibition "ANSWER FROM THE UNIVERSE". In 2018, his Muography Symphony was performed at the Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo, and in 2020 at The Symphony Hall in Osaka. In July 2020, he held a memorial concert for Ennio Morricone at the Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo.