This passionate lover of anything Frank Zappa garnered his first drum kit at the age of 5, and it’s been a steady musical assent ever since. He’s a music major at Williams College and a multi instrumentalist (drums, bass, guitar, lap steel and pedal steel). He is the founder of the jazz fusion group GrossMongue and the founder of the Diego Mongue Band who made it to the semifinals of the 2024 International Blues Challenge.