Mr. Cole is a musician and songwriter originating from Burbank, California, where he began playing guitar at the age of eleven. Soon afterward he started performing in rock and jazz groups around the Greater Los Angeles area. In 2014, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee to study Commercial Music at Belmont University, where he performed in the school’s highest level ensembles, including its prestigious groups Jazz Band 1 and Small Group 1. His time at the university included a tour of Colombia as a member of a jazz group led by Dr. Bruce Dudley, where he taught clinics and performed. Since moving to Nashville he has performed in a range of styles that includes jazz/fusion, rock, pop, gospel and R&B music, with performances and recordings for artists Kate Kelly, Billy Stonecipher, Miranda Powell, Jon von Boehm, Sarah Jordan and Group Nap. He is the leader and principal songwriter of his instrumental funk group Deep Fried Organ. He has also played in the pit in Nashville performances of musicals such as Jason Robert Brown’s Five Years After, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock, and Tom Kitt and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Bring It On.