Starting on the drums at the age of 4, and guitar at 5. By the time FreedomAndForgiven was 13 he was already working on his own reorchestrations. He is also a. Flamenco guitar prodigy, and previously voted one of the Top Ten unsigned underground guitarist by an indie music blog.
He has earned the nickname "The Mad Conductor" because of the extent of his reorchestrations. He not only taught himself to read, write, and transpose music for every single instrument in western music, but also translate and reorchestrate Romance period Russian symphonies.
He has been given the moniker as "The Founding Father of Flamenco Psy," and "The Founding Father of Psy Bass" from independent music blogs.