“I realize that God gave me the gift ... to bring my voice and my words to the hurting, lost, and broken.” —Rodney
Ripped jeans. Long hair. Earrings. As a teenager growing up in Iowa in the 1980s, Rodney Pieres had the appearance of an aspiring rock star, but he did not want to just look the part—he wanted to be a rock star.
“For whatever reason, I just had a natural inclination,” Rodney recalls. “Every time I'd pick an instrument up, I could figure it out by ear.”
Rodney’s guitar-playing uncle introduced him to the hard rock sounds of bands like Led Zeppelin and KISS, and by the age of 6, Rodney knew that he wanted to be a musician. Starting when he was a sophomore in high school, Rodney played in a few bands, and his interest in music soon became an obsession. But beneath his obsession with music was a darker fixation with drugs and alcohol that soon overshadowed his musical ambitions.
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