Sonny is a modern day troubador in both his professional and musical lives, traveling across the US and the globe to ply both his vocation (consulting) and his avocation(songwriting). His musical journey started in East Meadow, New York (a few towns over from Hicksville, hometown of Billy Joel). He started taking piano lessons at age 4 and was quick to frustrate his teachers, who wanted him to pay attention and not play everything by ear. Growing tired of formal piano instruction at age 11 (when playing soccer and basketball seemed more important), he never stopped playing and wrote his first song at age 16 (while sitting in English class). This lasted throughout his college years in Ithaca, NY, where he began to play some of the campus coffeehouses regularly, and to annoy all those who lived with him with his late night playing and writing.

Out into the real world, work was all consuming and did not leave time for music (or so he thought) until the events of September 11th... The singer/songwriter in Sonny mentally captured all of the unfolding events (as he was in the middle of things, on the 81st floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center when the 1st plane hit) and led to his first new song in many years, called, aptly, "Coming Home," which is one of the thousands of stories of the day. With a newfound sense of musical purpose - and with the maturity found at age 35 that was missing at age 18 - Sonny began to write again. He also began to play out at live venues again, and discovered his voice in places like The Evening Muse in Charlotte, NC.

This CD is 20 years in the making... as the saying goes "better late then never"...