CBS Survivor Cook Islands

I was born in New York City and raised in Miami. I joined the U.S. Marine Corp straight out of North Miami High School. Semper Fi Devil Dogs!

I started my music career as a teenager with the South Florida Heavy Metal band XERPENTS. After my band's break up and my military service was over, in early 1992 I sold all of my belongings, paid off all of my bills, bought a ticket and got on a bus with only $50 in my pocket and a dream bound for my old home town of New York City.

In 1997 I won a silver medal at the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) wrestling grand national championships in the Greco-Roman wrestling 220 pounds division. As an avid martial artist since the age of twelve, I've studied and practiced Pankration, Shorin-Ryu Karate, American Kenpo Karate, Muay Thai Boxing, Yang Tai Chi Chuan, Judo, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu earning black belts in some of these arts along the way.

In 1998 I became a trained Pro-Wrestler under WWE Hall Of Famer Johnny Rodz.

I founded The Heavy Metal band Forsakken in the summer of 2002.

In 2006 I was a cast member on the CBS reality TV show SURVIVOR: COOK ISLANDS where the world got to meet me as a dream chaser.

I stay busy doing Reality Events, Charity Events, Commercials, Movies, more Reality TV shows, playing guitar in my band Forsakken, and practicing Martial Arts. The meaning of life is to live. If you are not living your life then your life has no meaning. So dream big and live the life!