Hi. Welcome to my website.

A few words about me and my music. I'm an American underground Indie artist now residing in Europe. I have a selective hippie/ bohemian coffee house rendezvous type audience but my music has also been used in short films and commercials. The advantage of being such an extravagant artist is that one doesn't have to do anything fashionable and commercial or to compete with others. So, I write songs when inspired and make recordings when I've got what it takes to do that.

The environment I grew up in had a great influence on my music. It was Chicago's South East Side, in the area that comprised the former Hyde Park Township where many Americans such as President Barak Obama and many American artists were born, lived and worked in. But I grew up in that part of the Township that was near Calumet City on the Indiana boarder where during the Prohibition night clubs featured Las Vegas-style showgirl revues and artists such as Sun Ra, Frank Sinatra, Sophie Tucker, Keith Speaks or Gypsy Rose Lee used to play on Calumet City's Strip. Calumet City is also featured or mentioned in many major movies. Calumet in North American Indian language means "Peace Pipe". So some of us used to call it "Peace Pipe City"; though most earlier folks used to call it "The Strip" or "Sin City". I believe that Calumet City was the prototype for Las Vegas, and in many ways was an oasis of freedom like Amsterdam in the Netherlands (Holland) still is today. The only things remaining after those heydays of Cal City are American music and culture and the many smiling faces left with happy memories of a different era. Later I moved to the heart of Chicago's Gold Coast and lived near Rush Street and Old Town, which were other great entertainment centers, and from there I moved to Europe.

Chicago is the home of many types of American music such as Sunset Cafe, Big Bands, Jazz music, Gospel music, Rhytm & Blues, Soul music, Country music i.e. Barn Dance - Grand Ole Opre, Chicago Blues, House Music, Acid House music, Blues Brothers, Hip-Hop music called Chi-town and much more... It was also a great American folk music revival center for an elite group of the bohemian scene. And like many traditional Chicago musicians, I didn't have any guitar lessons but learned to play music by myself and on the street. So, I developed my own extravagant style and method that I call "Street Style" that is different from what one would learn in a music school in those days. But basically speaking, what I really learned there was to play music from the heart or the soul and not to pay too much attention on being technically correct. I also learned that the best songwriters are not necessarily the best singers or musicians.

Chicago 1962

Chicago 1966



Warsaw, Poland 2009