Zachary always knew he was meant to be a Musician and creator. “When I was a kid, I was always inventing little songs. Songs about what I had for breakfast, or about the birds I would watch out my window. And somewhere along the way, it just became obvious to me that I would keep doing it my whole life.” He started playing music professionally when he played for many different gospel and catholic church services, being a Catholic himself. He then soon got into Jazz when he visited New Orleans and experienced jazz for the first time. Now he is an aspiring jazz musician at Texas Christian University.

Despite his rapidly increasing popularity in the jazz scene at Fort Worth, he still wants to spread the message of equality in music. “Working with musicians all my life, I’ve seen firsthand the discrimination within the behind-the-scenes of music performance and composition. Especially in classical music, you’ll rarely see a piece written by a woman or someone other than a white male.” He has also worked with musicians from many different ethnicities and has seen that there are not a lot of musical opportunities for people of different cultures and ethnicities. “Being at TCU, I have seen more diversity within just my percussion studio, however, it is still not an equal representation as you will see in the picture of my studio.”