Andrew Neil

Andrew Neil Maternick was a recruited High School Athlete and attended the US Military Academy prep School (USMAPS) where he earned his appointment to West Point as a member of the class of 2012.  He began having issues and resigned in December of his Plebe Year.  He returned home and decided to enlist in the USMC.  Prior to reporting to Paris Island, he had a car accident & sustained a traumatic head injury.  Andrew struggled with serious mental health issues, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and suffered numerous psychotic episodes.  Living as a recluse in his parent’s basement, Andrew began to write songs out of nowhere, first on the keyboard and then in the spring of 2010, picked up a guitar for the first time.  He wrote his first guitar song on the top string the next day.  He declared himself as an artist and never looked back.  Music became his solace.