Audio Jake

Jesus above all.
James 1:19-22. Acts 20:24.

I was classically trained on piano since age 4. I bought my first guitar and started writing my own songs when I was 13. About the same time, I started listening to a lot of punk rock (Green Day, Pennywise, The Offspring, Blink-182, etc.) in addition to all of the classic rock I had grown up with (Van Halen, Deep Purple, Guns N' Roses, etc.) along with Guitar Virtuosos like Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, and Tony MacAlpine.

I spent a lot of my adolescent years in the world of Punk Rock/Metal. I was drawn to it by thinking I could be the person who speaks truth to power and calls out the lies being propagated by society and its leaders. But ultimately, that all fell apart.

I realized there was no point to fighting people with a runaway love for themselves when I was doing the exact same thing. I realized I couldn't just call out lies when I didn't know the actual truth. I realized that my life was a mess, and that I was trying to call out other people who had bigger messes in their life to make myself feel better about my own.

I came to the realization that Jesus Christ is the ONLY Way, Truth, and Life. I surrendered to Him the "Punk Rock" image of myself I so badly wanted to become and so vehemently was refusing to let go of. Once I truly surrendered the most valuable thing in my life to Him, everything else in my life fell into place. I hope my music inspires you to do the same.