Eric was born in Gainesville, FL on Feb. 23, 1981.  He attended Talbot Elementary School, Fort Clarke Middle School and Buchholz High School.  He has expressed himself musically since his earliest years.  He took piano lessons for several years while in grade school, played drums in his middle school band and began composing original music in high school. He participated in a dual enrollment program his last 2 years of high school, enabling him to take college courses at Santa Fe Community College which satisfied both high school and college requirements, so that he was only one course short of an AA degree when he graduated from high school.  He completed course work for a BA in Business Administration at the University of Florida, graduating with honors in 2002, and in February 2003, he got a “dream job” with Carnival Cruise Lines as a piano bar pianist/singer.  Since then he has cruised from the ports of Tampa, Port Canaveral, Miami, New York and Long Beach, CA on 3 different ships (the Inspiration, the Pride, and the Fantasy) to the Western Caribbean and New Orleans, to Bermuda, through the Panama Canal and to the Mexican Riviera.  He is currently sailing out of Port Canaveral to Nassau and Freeport (April-May, 2004) and will spend the summer and fall (June through October 2004) sailing to the southern Caribbean on the Destiny out of San Juan, Puerto.  He has recorded 3 CDs, one of original music and two of cover songs, with more to come!