I’m a native New Yorker who grew up in Brooklyn. Had my first band at age fourteen and my first of three recording contracts (Polydor, Columbia and RCA) when I was in my twenties. Out of those deals, I had two songs on the Billboard charts and a Top Ten Dance Club Hit. But due to an assortment of strange circumstances (they kept firing the presidents of the labels – no lie), I figured I’d better do something else to pay the bills.

So I started writing “jingles” for commercials and moved to San Diego. I became a partner in the music production company, Patterson, Walz & Fox, with Rick Patterson and Ron Walz. For about thirteen years, I wrote and produced music for everything from pig drugs to TV themes, i.e., The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. Our client list included Chanel, Coca-Cola, Disney, the Gap, and McDonalds, as well as major networks like NBC, CBS, MTV and VH-1. I also co-scored two of the Killer Tomatoes movies (where George Clooney got his start).

That was good money but not much fun. Then I changed all that. Wrote a couple of musicals, Meat Street and Jingle This!, and started my own indie label. At the same time, I was co-creator, composer, and illustrator of the Confetti Company for multi-cultural children’s books, narrated by actor Robert Guillaume. Following that, I wrote and performed a multimedia one-man show, Pigeonholes,in which my live performance interacted with the action on screen. Theatre critic, Pat Launer, calledPigeonholes “amusing, heartfelt, filled with gems of social commentary and human awareness.”

In 2007, my wife and I moved to Florida. I got more involved in multimedia and music, and now have eight self-released CDs and several music videos, one of which won two film festival awards.

I was fortunate enough to have Barry Gross take the office space next to my studio. We admired each other’s work and thought it would be great to combine his art with my music. So here we are, getting all EXPOSED, in the name of art.