Bio

Hometown:	Cape Coral, Florida
School:	The Conservato r y of Dirty Little Tricks
Employer:	Self Employed Recruiter

Former co-founder of The Idea; currently singer songwriter for The Humble 5 and The Dirty Rotten Sinners, both Christian Alternative bands. Influences are The Beatles, Elvis Costello, early Who, XTC, Aaron Sprinkle, Matthew Sweet, The Posies, Badfinger, Big Star, Phil Keaggy and Michael Penn. But the greatest thing in Matt's life is his wife Janine, and his beautiful children Justin, Jordan and Zoe. Zoe is known as Matt's "Beautiful Handful". Jordan is "Everybody's Buddy", and Justin blows Matt away because he's funny, caring and ridiculously intelligent. Matt does his best to praise and exalt God every day for the blessings He has given him, learning how to kneel to stand tall. Most recently, Matt has been filling in on drums for McGregor Baptist Church in Ft. Myers, and on bass and drums for Celebrate Recovery which he is thankful for the opportunity to serve.