Andrew Sa

This is written by an, a New Yorker, a new New Yorker, a Brooklyn guy.

His name is Liam Kazar, and he's a good friend of mine and a brilliant singer-songwriter.

We spent a lot of time together working in Chicago.

But during the pandemic, we had been writing to each other about writing.

... um, unabashedly, was something I really needed to see.

I think about Rufus Wainwright when I was a teenager.

He, when I first heard Poses, the record by Rufus Wainwright, at 16, he gave me permission to even dream this dream of being a, an out, available, uh, singer-songwriter singing about my own truth, you know? And not trying to fit within the constructs of society and what they wanted me to be.

And, and Patrick furthered that, gave- giving me permission to return to country music.