*Thank you so much for listening to my music and visiting my profile page! I feel blessed:)

*What I play.....
I mainly play guitar, but I also use other stuff like vocals, keys, drums, reverse playback, software programming while composing, performing, arranging, twiddling my thumbs, staring at my ceiling, or watching TV.

*Where I started....
I remember about more than a decade ago, I would visit my cousins in Chicago, IL, who just moved from the Philippines.  They were very musical, playing various instruments to popular music like Metallica and Greenday.  I thought this was so cool coming from a 10 year old kid's perspective and really had no experience seeing music live, up close, and personal.  One visit, my cousin, Arvin (who was my very, very first musical influence) decided to give me his old acoustic guitar. I was so excited even though the neck was broken from an airplane ride.  The strings on it seemed to be like 1 inch away from the fret board.  It was like jumping on a trampling ha ha, but I had fun with it. I was care-free and curious.  Immediately, I strummed away, not really knowing anything and created music by hitting the open strings and placing the end of my pointer finger on the first few frets.  

That’s how I started. Before the rigorous practicing and earning my 4 year degree in Jazz and Contemporary Music, I had eyes like a child who just had his first bicycle ride ever. Like everyone else, I had to start fresh from scratch. 

*What I listen to.....
Along with my first musical influences in rock and metal, I am pretty eclectic. Here are a few artists that I like to listen to nowadays: 
Jazz: Miles Davis, Pat Martino, Hiromi Uehara, John Coltrane, Antonio Sanchez, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Lage Lund 
Classical: Maurice Ravel, J.S. Bach, Villa Lobos 
Rock: Led Zeppelin, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Oceansize, 
Other: Marie' Digby, Steve Reich, Ravi Shankar, Michael Jackson, Kaki King, Boyce Avenue,...to name a few. I can go on and on cause there is a lot of good music out there!

Darcy&#x27;s Ego is following

Darcy's Ego is following