"jimmyd" started piano lessons at the age of 7. He studied under Wanda (Klein) Bailey, a graduate of the St. Louis Conservatory of Music, for 14 years. He also entered the St. Louis Conservatory of Music, which sadly doesn't exist anymore, and studied under Dorothy Dring Smutz. He started writing music in his early teens and is still writing. He also plays and writes for the "King of Instruments", the pipe organ.