Step By Step Wedding Dance Music CD

'So what is it like to be in Jon's shoes!? 'Well, I grew up in a family of seven kids (four of my siblings were adopted). My dad was an optician (he sold eyeglasses), and my mom had a few different jobs depending on schedules and such. Coming from such a big, diverse family definitely helped me see things from a lot of different perspectives'. When did the interest in music begin? 'I guess I've always been a bit of a songwriter. Just about any phrase of conversation can come out of my mouth attached to a melody. Many times I don't even realize I'm doing it. 'As far as formal training, I started taking piano lessons from my grandma when I was four or five. I did ok, but the passion didn't really kick in then. I guess it was probably too structured for me at the time or something. 'When I was sixteen, I borrowed my brother's guitar a few times and I got hooked. I spent hours in my bedroom in the basement, learning songs from the radio and writing some pretty basic lyrics. I had a pretty limited amount of experience then, especially because I was so shy. I didn't have a lot of connections to draw from. Thankfully, playing music has helped me get over a lot of that.

' When did you realize you wanted to do music full time?'Like a lot of kids, I dreamed of being a rock star. Of course, I dreamed about a lot of things that weren't necessarily within the realm of possibility. But as I got more and more involved in music, I realized there was potential to do it full time. I tried it, and didn't die of starvation, so I figured I could keep doing it.