Music

I’ve been singing and figuring out pop songs by ear on the piano for as long as I can remember. In middle school, I played French horn. I didn’t stick with it — I didn’t much want to do marching band in the Texas heat — but I did cross-train on cello, and played that through high school.

My biggest love, though, is choral music. There’s something magical about singing with dozens or hundreds of voices, co-creating a wall of sound, beaming the most wonderful and hardest parts of our own histories into the audience.

I’ve had the privilege to sing soprano and alto with the Atlanta Women’s Chorus, and tenor with the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. If you’ve never listened to SFGMC, they’re an institution — creating music and chosen family since 1978, back when chorus rehearsal was the closest place to home many gay men had ever felt. I was very lucky to sing in the live premiere of Unbreakable, Andrew Lippa’s musical about queer history, with a song per decade. Listen on Spotify here. If queer oral history is your thing, listen to interviews with SFGMC singers on what the chorus means to them here.

Today, I sing tenor with Inkloosiv Voices, Toronto’s premier R&B and gospel choir. Here’s a short video introducing the choir.