Four months ago, I decided to leave my long-time passion of performing in a singing group.  At the time, it was the right thing to do.  I have no regrets about my decision because it allowed me time to think, clear my head, and concentrate on my own goals.  It felt like a well-needed break from the craziness of tour life and the stresses of being in a professional singing group.  The funny thing is, when you think you’ve got everything figured out, God throws you a curveball and makes you realize that you really are not in control of anything. 

Two months after announcing my departure from Legaci, I get a call from the guys asking if I’d be able to go on tour with them to South America as a temporary replacement for Dom (who had left the group for personal reasons).  My first instinct was to say no because I had just gone through this whole big ordeal of leaving the group (which was not an easy decision).  But after learning that the guys had been practicing with Jay (Legaci’s founding member) so that he could be ready for the tour, I felt motivated to go.  Jay had not been able to attend the past year of touring, and I always felt like it was incomplete because he wasn’t on tour with us.  This would be his chance to experience the complete JB tour experience, so with that I decided to go.

While on tour, it felt like old times.  It was very fulfilling to see Jay meet the entire Bieber crew and experience all the things we did on tour the past year….the huge stadiums, performing in front of thousands of people, traveling from city to city in foreign countries, backstage, catering, the countless airports and hotels, TV shows… just every little thing.  Being back on tour did change me and made me miss being with the group.

Although my experience coming back was positive and enjoyable, I still did not forget why I left in the first place.  I was tired of compromising and had lost clarity of my real goals.   While on break I had finally been able to work on the music and ideas that had been put on hold for so long.  It was extremely gratifying to once again create my OMA (one man a cappella) videos and get back to vocal training & playing piano and guitar.  I had not been able to do any of that while we were on tour because our hectic schedule combined with the amount of effort I was putting in to push Legaci.  Paired with my creative frustrations was the fact that we had different views on where we wanted to go musically with the group. 

On the last few days of the South American tour, I had several meetings with the guys and realized that we still wanted to work together musically.  We just needed to figure out how to make it work so that our personal goals wouldn’t be compromised.  After a lot of talking and discussion, we figured out a situation that would incorporate our personal goals into the overall goals of the group.  For me, that meant that I could continue to create music and work on my musicianship, while assisting Legaci in their primary goals of releasing an album and eventually going on their own world tour.

Whatever your thoughts on the situation, just know we all love making music.  We kind of got away from that the past year while on tour.  The past few months have allowed us to refocus and renew our Visions.  We are now ready to make some real original music for our fans.  If you doubt what I’m saying, just keep an eye out over the next few months and we’ll show you =)

Music is made better together, rather than apart.