I am Tracy Kerbuski. I was born in Muskegon, Michigan, the youngest of three surviving sons, and was raised mainly by my mother, Cecelia, and she was... and is... the Rock! I started mimicking songs by Tammy Wynette at the age of 5. My father, Tom Sr., was pretty heavy into record collecting, so all of us boys were musically influenced early on. My father got me started playing drums at 8. I practiced once a week until his death (one year later or so) but kept playing drums into my early teens. A childhood friend, Tony, and I formed a 2-piece band that quickly grew into a revolving door of talented musicians. This lasted 8 wondrous years of song writing and performing. I met a lot of great people and players. During that 8 year stint, I was forced into being a guitarist because they were very hard to find. This gave me a great way to express myself... I locked myself in a bedroom for two years and wrote chops while developing my scales, chords and structures... So you can say that I'm “Self-Taught.” I learned enough and was able to join my first circuit band at 16 while juggling an original group as well... Writing and collecting my own style and songs... I had my first record contract with Steel Vengeance at 22yrs. with Black Dragon Rec./France. My second at 24yrs. was with the same band to Giant Rec./New York, USA. When I left Steel Vengeance 2 years later, I had already been preparing music and members for my next band "DROP HAMMER".... After a few months, we were up and gigging. Original members were Tracy Kerbuski, Scott Carlson, Tommy Vallejo, and Bruce Danz... We cut our first Demo recording "STIMULATION OF YOUR NERVES" and had a "Huge" response including Venezuela, France, Germany, The UK, Switzerland, Spain etc.... Which helped us get signed to Red Decibel Rec./Minneapolis, MN. They helped us to sign with Metal Blade/Caroline Records.... A Full-length album followed "Mind and Body" and an M-TV video and "Get in the Van Tour" was on.... with the joining of James Sullivan on drums. We then moved off into other directions after 5 years, but still remain good friends. I formed a band called BoldFace in which I wrote songs for two guitars and we released an 8 song demo called "Response". It was poised to well in the industry but in 5 years things can go south... Continuing to write and collect, I returned to the circuit with a few projects (Dark Blue Room and Ten Ton Krush) that mixed both “original and cover” music and it proved successful for 8 years, and became a constant musical existence. 7 more years passed bye bringing with it many originals..... Two more successful cover bands, 4U2NV and Evenkeel, and a stint on the road with The Jasmine Caine Band, all rekindled my passion for guitar playing and writing. During these 4 months, a new band was formed, Violent Faith. It brought with it a worldwide platform to showcase my writings and messages, giving me the ability to take it a step higher with 4U2NV and working with a brotherhood of like mined artists, who believe in the musical message, to the world masses, bringing an heir of hope from struggle to which all can relate.