Layered. When asked to describe myself using one word, that’s my typical response. Now, you may be wondering, “what does that even mean?” It means I’m an overly complicated, deep, philosopher-like person. Not really, it just means that there are things about me that you may never know, and that’s on purpose. It takes me a long time to fully open up to new people, or old friends for that matter. Thus, I use the word “layered” to emphasize the idea that there are layers you’ll have to slowly pull back to get to the root of who I am as a person. Much like an ice cream cake that has fudge and cookie crumbles in the center. Yep, you got it, I’m essentially nothing more than an ice cream cake, waiting to be enjoyed with a plastic fork.

Anyway, enough about that. Where to begin? Well, my name is a good place to start I suppose, and it’s Forrest. Forrest Emery. I was born in Manteca, California, adopted at birth, and have lived in Springfield for about 18 years. I’m extremely passionate about music, specifically drums. I started playing when I was about 13 and I’ve been entirely self taught since the beginning. The whole reason I decided to come to Lane was an experience I had in a recording studio with my band. I enjoyed the process, as in mixing, editing, and post-production, so much that I knew I wanted to pursue a career in audio engineering, or, at the very least, something to do with multimedia.

My ultimate goal is to become a successful audio engineer. Whether that’s in music, TV, live events, or anything in between doesn’t really concern me. In fact, doing all of that sounds great, and hopefully at some point I’ll be able to. Even though it’s only been a week, I’m convinced that Lane is going to give me the tools, experiences, and connections I need to not only pursue my dreams, but achieve them, and I look forward to the ride.

Oh yeah, here’s a picture of me, taken by one of my good friends as a “Man Crush Monday” post. (Spoiler alert: It’s back when I had cool hair).

P.S. Check out one of my most recent bands in the link below to hear me drumming and singing.