I started playing the drums at the age of three when I heard Harvey Mason and Joe Morello playing Hancock’s Chameleon and Brubeck’s Take Five. I was accepted into a music school at the age of six performing these songs but mostly they were impressed by my improvisation skills. In my childhood I devoted all my time to music. The works of Weather Report, Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, Allan Holdsworth, John Scofield and John McLaughlin inspired me the most.