Painted by hand.
Produced with AI.
Lived in New York.
The canvas that started it all — painted in an art class in Queens, NY, with teacher Nia Bocanegra.
It started with a paintbrush I hadn't picked up in years. In a small art class in Queens, New York, guided by teacher Nia Bocanegra, one afternoon on a yellow canvas became the spark for this entire album.
Every song on From New York With Love is written, produced and directed by me — fusing the newest tools in AI music production with something completely organic: paint, canvas and instinct. The songs that needed to be seen as much as heard, I painted myself.
I want this album to prove something simple: that creating responsibly with AI is still art. The technology is another instrument in the room — next to the piano, the paintbrush, and two decades on stage. It doesn't replace the story. It helps me tell it.
Every track here is one of the many stories I lived in this city — the nights, the bills, the love, the hustle, the sunrise after the set. New York taught me everything I know, and this album is how I give it back.
