Biography

Chris grew up in what he would call a big Italian family. Everyone in this family, it seemed, was musical. Even his Aunt's dogs would join in howling when his family sang together. No matter what holiday it was, one thing was certain, they would always end up gathered in the living room singing and dancing.

Chris started playing piano when he was 9 years old, but it was more to placate his parents, whose idea it was in the first place - you know, like childhood was synonymous with piano lessons. The truth was, at that point Chris didn't even like music. His parents, however, who were both songwriters, assumed that he, too, would have a love and talent for music. You can imagine how horrified they were when their son, during a talent show - rather than sing, or play the piano - decided to tell jokes. Chris rejected music because to him music was the thing that took his parent's attention away from him.

When Chris was twelve his family bought a vacation home in Lake Arrowhead, California. This would not only become the place where family summers were spent, but this was to become the place where Chris found his music. While floating on the lake in their boat they listened to an old CD his father brought of a band known as the Eagles. He recalls that it was like hearing music for the first time. As a result he was to fall in love with Eagles' music, and with music in general. That summer became Chris's right-of-passage, for it was that summer that he found his voice, and his music. When his family got home, Chris' father got him his first electric guitar, and he began taking lessons, and was soon to discover that he loved to write songs.

This newfound talent would change him so that everything he would experience would somehow get stored in his brain and evolve into a song.