“Your music can never be more or less than you are as a human being.”
-Quincy Jones

Since the late 90s, he has produced and released records primarily under the Kanude and Val Holler monikers. His music has been featured in HBO's "True Blood", ​as part of the original programming for the inaugural New York Fringe Festival in 1998 (in which he performed in a crazy downtown rock opera "One Arm Red: Gospel Truth Family Hour" which he co-created), and early on as the co-composer of Robert Rodriguez'​ critically acclaimed, low-budget feature film debut "El Mariachi."​

From 1993 to 1995 in New York City, he was a contributing songwriter/founder and performer with post-new wave band Mind Over Matter and later he has fronted his own Val Holler and Kanude recording and live projects while based in California, Berlin (Germany), Texas, Oregon and Virginia.

His latest project is LightBody Sound, a conscious synth pop duo/band with his wife The Song Healer as well as producing for other artists and continuing to build the Lightstone Records imprint. In his spare time, he chips away at his severe handicap on the golf course and helps his wife raise their two school-age children.