amusing.  I don’t think that people have specific influences; it’s more that they pick up subtle things that they like from one person here and there, and then put them all together in a cool new way to form their own sound. 

I consider myself to be one of the luckiest people alive to have had the opportunity to record a CD because there is no cooler experience than hearing the finished product of something that you pour your heart and soul into and then getting to share it with other people.  So, when you listen to Mixed Emotions, you won’t hear it as a pop CD or a country CD or a rock CD.  Instead, it’s just a CD of music that people can relate to and, personally, that I can relate to.  I always put my all into everything that I do and this is no exception, so I hope that you like what you hear and can also get something out of it.  Music speaks to people like very few things can, and it has the power to touch people in a completely unique way.  It really is true that music is magical.

~Andy

For me, singing is one of those things that makes life so special.  The fact that wherever you are, no matter how old you are, you can open your mouth and music comes out is such an amazing thing and one of the main reasons that I love to sing.  No matter how hectic life gets, when I sit down at a piano and sing, everything else seems to fade away. 

I currently go to school at Middlebury College in Vermont and live in Eden Prairie, Minnesota after growing up in Sugar Land, Texas.  Even though I’ve never lived there myself, I sort of consider NYC to be a home away from home, considering the amount of time that I have spent there my whole life.  So where am I from?  Everywhere.

What kind of music do I listen to?  Pretty much everything.  Growing up, I listened to a lot of older music like the Beach Boys, Beatles, Turtles, Frankie Vali and the Four Seasons and Dion and the Belmonts, then a little more recent things like Bon Jovi and Bryan Adams.  As I got older, living in Texas, I started listening to a lot of country music.  Things like Travis Tritt, Toby Keith, Trace Adkins, Rascal Flatts, Tim McGraw, and other people and groups like those who really knew how to rock country music, but who also could sit back and sing a beautiful heartfelt song.  After moving to Minnesota and reaching high school, I started listening to more mainstream music like 3 Doors Down, Nickelback, Matchbox 20, Daughtry, and other bands like those.  So it probably doesn’t come as a surprise that I’ve always thought the question, “so what are your musical influences?” is a little bit