Why I left San Antonio

From nearly the moment I arrived in San Antonio, it was already clear, especially after my short music career, that my eyes were set on somewhere larger. It was not clear at the time where the next stop was, but I did understand, pretty early on, that this was going to be an important stepping stone for my future. I wanted to be a part of something special, something sacred, and Mark and Jenny (E Muzeki) gave me just that. Learning music with them showed me for the first time in my life that ANYTHING was possible – I just had never set my own goals before. Once I knew that I did not want to play music, and that I wanted to become an intellectual in some form of expression, I then understood that San Antonio, even Texas, could not fulfill that. I had a brother in New York, and I applied for a master’s program immediately – after all, New York was the center of the universe, and it proved to be just that while I was there.