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My parents are both musicians.

My mom is a music teacher, and my dad plays the organ, and he's the retired pastor of a church.

And so I grew up with them putting me on the front pew and playing instruments, started off with the drums and then moved to saxophone from there.

I chose the saxophone because when I was in school, the music teacher presented several instruments to us.

And when he presented the drums, everybody said, "Oh, nice."

He presented the flute, and everybody said, "Oh, nice."

And when he presented the saxophone, it seems like 50% of the girls in the room said, "Ooh, saxophone!"

So when I saw that, I said, "I'm gonna play that instrument."

And that's what drove me to the saxophone.

What I like most about performing is the energy that I receive from the crowd.

It's something, as I usually explain it, it's like a drug that you can't get on the street.

And that's what I really like about it.

It's great.

I like to see the smiles on people's face after I play, and I hope that they come in feeling better, should I say leave feeling better than they came.

The two tunes that I played for you, the first one was called "Honeydew," and that song was produced by Greg Fears, and I wrote the melody for it.

That song was actually named "Honeydew" after George Benson's son passed away in a club called Honeydew.

And so we did a song thinking of George Benson's son.

And then the second song that I played was called "Sunday Doo Dah," and that was also produced by Greg Fears Jr., and I wrote the melody for that one as well.

And that was a song that was composed after church on Sunday.

It was just a melody that I was hearing, and I tell Greg, "We gotta do this song," so that's how that came about.

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