Marching to the beat of his own drum
January 07, 2015, Kathy Gardner-Jones
Andy Akiho’s love of percussion began in the mid 1980s when his sister convinced him to play drums in a rock band. During his first performance on the high school drum line, he instinctively knew that “music had to be [his] life.” The S.C. native was accepted into USC’s School of Music where he says it all started.