Who am I? I'm xyz Parker and I make alternative music. I guess I'd call me a singer-songwriter: but also I do the bass, guitar, program the drums, and mix/master everything. I love and don't love to talk about myself, so this is pretty hard to write. I started playing guitar in 2024, I was inspired by Van Halen and Rush and Boston and some 80s stuff like that. I had always listened to Nirvana a little, but I started to realize how much I gravitated towards their songs specifically, so I sat down and listened to In Utero. That album changed my life. Never had I heard something so raw and emotional; with all that rad imagery and brut in the lyrics, HUGE drums, and feedback and shit. I LOVED it. At first, I only ever learned songs, but I felt an unrecognizable feeling when I would mess around and think of random riffs and stuff (I had no idea what I was doing, I'm entirely self taught hahhahahha flex.) In 2025, I began to be good enough to make my own stuff. Conveniently, I had been gifted FL Studio by my awesome dad as a kid when I was really into Techno music, haha. It took me many mixes to figure it out, still I improve. My highschool years so far had been spent dealing with depression and a feeling of loneliness, but music understood me more than I did. I have always made my music however I feel at the time, a lot of my original tracks (many unreleased) were extremely dissonant and angry, or extremely depressing, I still make songs like that, but not so often because my moods are much more complex. In 2026; I have really found myself. After I released Finding the Light in Heresy, I bleached/dyed my hair and got really into metacognition and philosophy. I almost don't recognize the person I used to be. I understand myself now. In my life, my goal is to help people the best I can and create positive change in peoples lives. Outside of music, I want to become a therapist. If I were to give one piece of advice in life so far; it would be to do what you feel, be the you that feels real. You are more unique than you'll ever know.