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I'm originally from the UP of Michigan, and I moved here to the Twin Cities about eight years ago, and kind of just jumped right in, started meeting people, put out an album in 2020 called The Fire and the Medicine, and that was kind of my statement.

It was like, hey, here I am, and this is what I do.

And what inspires you as a songwriter?

To me, I'm always trying to capture a mood, trying to capture a feeling.

And so I've kind of learned as I've done this to recognize those things.

So the biggest thing is getting it down in its truest form.

And like the song American Hypocrisy comes from a frustration.