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At seven, when most children are jumping around on playgrounds and watching cartoons, Singer-Songwriter fiZ could be found in a rocking chair, eyes closed, listening to Beatles albums for hours on end. “I used to have visions while listening to those albums of being this rock star and healing people,” says fiZ. “I have always associated rock and roll with healing the world and playing a part of it. It was never separate. It was always connected.”

Music has been around fiZ since birth. Having a stepfather that co-founded ’50s Doo-wop group, The Charades, music was as natural for fiZ as breathing. “I was always around all these great singers because of my stepfather,” recalls the singer. “The first time I ever heard them live was a magical moment. I was blown away.” As he grew, the prolific songwriter would pick up the guitar, keyboard, and mandolin and at age 12, wrote the first of an estimated 1,000 songs. Absorbing everything from Motown to Rod Stewart to Led Zeppelin, music became a familiar escape; a fantastical world where fiZ could tune out any problems in his life and just enjoy.

After recording and self-producing two albums, 2000s Transcending and 2004s Right Where You Are, fiZ brought in former Wings drummer Steve Holly and veteran producer Bob Stander to collaborate on the new album. Stander, who comes to the album with more than 350 studio credits in a decades-long career, bolstered fiZ’s natural gift for songwriting, a combination of stream-of-consciousness lyrics and songs based on self-imposed writing exercises.