I was born in San Antonio, Texas at Lackland AFB to Filipino parents that met in California, that happened to be from the same province in the Philippines.  I found a passion for the arts and playing piano at age five, and was nurtured through a talented and gifted course. At age six, our family moved to Aviano AFB, Italy.  I continued to play piano under an Albanian named Dhurata, and won a national poster contest at age eight.  At age 11, we moved to Spangdahlem, Germany where I started to become involve with the church and Club Beyond.  I picked up guitar, and with my first paycheck, I bought an electric.  My friends and I had a band called Lemonade Stand, and we mostly picked up on cover songs and wrote poetry with simple compositions on the guitar.  At age 15, my family and I moved back to the small town of Aviano, once again, and I went back to playing piano, painting and drawing, and swimming for the Aviano Sea Dragons.  I painted murals at the chapel and school, and did service work in Czech Republic and Slovakia with Club Beyond-- spreading the word of Christ with my angel drawings.  I was an honor student, and represented my fellow high school classmates freshman and junior years as secretary and vice-president to my junior class. After graduating in the 10th percentile of my class, I spent my first year in college at Delaware College of Art and Design.  I was able to finish my associates degree in the Arts at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, and earn a bachelor degree in Interdisciplinary Studies degree at the University of Southern Mississippi. 

I currently work at the Hard Rock Casino in Biloxi, MS.
  

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