The only thing we can change is ourselves. Yet this can change the world.
Sky offers music that is instantly likable, yet, like the wine in his home of Sonoma County, gets better with time. Sky is a winner of West Coast Songwriter's Song of the Year 2008 (Tied Up Tied Down), three-time winner of "Best Performance” and two-times for "Best Song” (Space for Uncertainty, Tied-up Tied-down). We Are the Ones (We've Been Waiting For)" received an honorable mention in the Indie International Song Contest.
Aptly named by his dad while looking out the window from the Point Reyes Youth Hostel on the beach where he was born, Sky has walked a unique path. Instead of looking for instant notoriety, Sky spent his first 30 years learning about the inner world and trying to come to terms with the suffering of life. Between his work as a physicist and the practice of his music, he strove to find broader meaning in life’s course.
In a dream one night, he was asked “are you a Moses or a musician?”… Sky answered instinctively “I'm a musician.” From that night forward Sky dedicated himself to his muse and has never looked back. In becoming focused on his own life-passion, and becoming willing to let the people in his life be themselves, his own life has transformed. Sky’s intention is to liberate himself from suffering, and inspire his audience to do the same. He lives the life he believes in, and puts it to song.
Sky has played piano since the age of 3, and has performed around the San Francisco Bay Area with various groups. He has studied at Berklee College of Music, UC Berkeley (BA Physics), and with numerous private teachers. Sky also experimented with a normal life as a high school physics teacher for 5 years.
Sky has also published one paper and is composing further work on the connection between physics and spirituality. This work draws upon his diverse experiences, studying relativity, holography, the trigonometry of music, quantum mechanics, and the meditative practices of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions. The first paper, On the Holographic Nature of Light and its Measured Speed, can be found for free download at his web site.
