And what you hear is this: fame doesn’t fix or fill you. Life is so much more than awards and accomplishments. Life is about love, acceptance, healing and growth.

Joey’s life began in Buffalo, NY and his father’s ministry pitched him into the culture shock of Tennessee and Alabama. Preacher’s kids live in a bubble. It’s hard to breathe in a bubble. But those experiences prepared him to “need” healing. And forced him to learn to breathe. When you hear his lyrics you hear his heart. And what you hear is this: fame doesn’t fix or fill you. Life is so much more than awards and accomplishments. Life is about love, acceptance, healing and growth. The frustrations of being a preacher’s kid gave him lots of opportunities for all of the above.

Joey was an athlete. As a competitive swimmer he trained hard hoping to make the junior Olympics. Life was training him for something else. Life has this way of using one thing to teach you another. Through swimming he learned how to train, compete, and work hard in pursuit of a goal. All those skills would be used, just not in the water. Joey graduated from Oakwood University where he studied Organizational Management. But that came after leaving school to join Take 6 in 1991 riding the wave of some of the group's greatest success. Take 6 was on a roll. The darling of the jazz world! 4 years in a row they won Jazz Vocal Group of the year. They traveled the world, sang to sold out crowds, and worked with legends of the industry like Quincy Jones. Joey, from the outside looking in, had it all. Joey, from the inside looking out, had nothing.
As Take 6 was peaking Joey was breaking. He found out that success isn’t a remedy for emptiness... Here’s where the transparency comes in... Joey broke. He hit the wall head on, and Joey went through seemingly impossible experiences. He lived through them...sang through them...wrote through them...and found his truth (oxygen) through all of them. Facing his truth caused him to grow into his calling. And, the wall was his WAY, his path. Joey knows what it feels like to hurt. He also knows what it feels like to heal. That’s why he’s committed his art to the work of helping people heal. Joey is sharing his journey with the love(s) of his life, his wife Tina and his 2 daughters. They live in Nashville, TN.