John Arruda: singer, songwriter, guitarist. Married with children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.

..........I started playing the ukelele when I was about 7 years old. Mom was prepping me for the guitar, but I didn't know it then...I was just having fun with the uke. It wasn't long before I had written my first song. It was a song about a puppy dog named "Corky". It was a sad song and made my sister Elaine cry. What a powerful thing that was, to control someone's emotions with a song! That's when I knew that I wanted to be a song writer, I was about 12 years old when I graduated to the guitar. Now my fingers could stretch across the fret board and I could play all of my favorite Beatle songs...Hey what else? I have literally written hundreds of songs. I will try my best to add a few more videos of some more of them very soon. 2nd Tyme Around is my band and we play all of my original songs. We have videos of my music here on the band's channel and more to come.