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Born in captivity in 1945, this son of a wonderful soprano and a great tenor spent the first seven years of life in blissful symbiosis. Soon however, he realized that he had five brothers and sisters who were also competing for the same air. Luckily, he was a natural-born leader and ran his siblings like poodles.
After
finishing Palisades High School, U.C Santa Barbara and UCLA, he
had a near death experience courtesy of Timothy Leary. As he
saw his life
passing in front of his eyes he realized it was the wrong
life. So he moved to
London to catch up with his old band mate Wayne Grajeda.
After a month he
was sure there was no money in England and fled to West
Berlin where he visited
Francis Serafini and T.M.Fabian at Hagelberger Strasse 14 in Kreuzberg. After
regaining consciousness, he was told again that one could actually make a
living writing and playing music. Since he had obviously died and gone to
heaven,
he decided to stay and spent five years with the “Berlin Circus”.
Radio, television, recording,
touring…what’s not to like?
In 1978 he decided to return to the world to return to the world
with his girl friend in tow on a fiancé visa. Back in the states now he lives
peacefully working at engineering and architecture. Music was never in second
place however, and he continues to write and produce, having written over 200 songs. He bought
a nice house with a
recording studio and learned to play drums.
Today he is
working with the producer from Three Dog Night writing
and producing songs under the stage name of Jimmy Travis for new acts including
ones for the Latin market in Los Angeles.
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