Skip to content He grew up bruised, bewildered, and poor, a small boy at the piano trying to turn chaos into chords. His father’s rage left him unconscious on the floor; his mother’s untreated mental illness left the house flooded with tears and terror. Between them, he learned two things: that love could vanish without warning, and that music would never abandon him. Those early wounds bled into the songs that made the world sing along.
