This was when I was growing up in Cameroon, and attending boarding school.

The girls (from an all-girls boarding school) will visit our school once or twice a year, and we’d put on a concert for them… it was pretty cool

– we used to think we were... the best things since sliced bread – you should have been there… J

Anyway - This is where I honed my skill.

But I didn’t really start writing songs as sweet as “Simple As I Am”  
– which won Finalist in Song Of The Year Contest (VH-1 Save The Music) – until several years later, when I moved to the United States at age 17…