What sparked the early love of music?
When I was REALLY young, I’m talking 0 – 12 my life was full of many family road trips and video games. Both these things exposed me to so much music I connected with and loved before I even understood why. In my parents car, it was always The Beatles or Billy Joel playing, I would be reluctant as a kid to admit I liked any of it until I started playing piano at 14. Once piano came into my life, all these songs from my early childhood came back to me and I fell deeply in love with all of it. When I started playing piano, I would pick up most songs by ear. Within the first year of playing I had already figured out how to play most songs on both The Beatles and Billy’s greatest hits albums. It was really the only thing that made sense to me and in some ways still is! – YASSiN
Was there an album or performance that made you say “That’s what I want to do”?
There are many albums I LOVED growing up that made me feel like “I want to create something like that!” Those albums varied from Bring Me Your Love by City & Colour to The Black Album by Jay Z. That list can go on and on, but a performance I saw that changed my world was also when I was 14. I got to see Billy Joel AND Elton John on a joint tour…With my recent discovery of the piano, this was everything I could ever dream of. This sounds silly now, but I remember trying to sing and play piano at the same time and not being able to do it, THEN I remember seeing this concert and it felt like all the sudden I could. I know that doesn’t make sense but watching that show changed my path for sure! – YASSiN