At the age of 5, Jimmy would sneak into his brother's room to play on the small unused electric organ playing kid's tunes and improvising. Thanks to the simple one button chord system, Jimmy soon  discovered  how the  same note can sound different just by changing the chord.  Not knowing that this was called “harmony” he found it very magical. He later bought a keyboard on his own, then another one and finally a piano, on which he still continues to improvise.

Around 12, Jimmy saw BB King doing a special guest appearance on the Bill Cosby show. In that episode, BB King played one of his famous four bar intros. Jimmy instantly felt something  and said "This is what I want to do !"

He later discovered David Gilmour's great guitar sound on various Pink Floyd songs and dreamed that he could do something similar. At age 18, he rented a saxophone to play along with BB King's records as well as Sidney Bechet's. He was getting closer to expressing his soul but still thinking about the guitar. At 20, one of his brother's friends lent him a white Ibanez to see what a guitar feels like. He played it through his keyboard amp and, despite the awful sound, it brought a smile to his face. He bought a fake Les Paul Gibson  and a small  Peavey amp  and  started to play with BB King (once again), Carlos Santana, and Gary Moore records. Despite the crappy mechanics of the guitar  , the fake Les Paul had an amazing sound and Jimmy started to play for hours and hours, regretting that he did not start as a kid, believing that because of that he would never be able to really play the guitar. One night, he went to see a friend who was performing a small gig. This friend was accompanied by a great guitar player that had a "I give guitar lessons" sign at his feet. Jimmy thought this would be a great opportunity to fill the void left by a recent break-up. At the first lesson, Jack, the teacher, asked him "What do you want to play ?" "Blues," Jimmy answered. This is what he learned, along with a few more tricks. After four years, he had enough material in his hands to work on, he stopped taking the lessons and kept practicing on his own.

Occasionally, one of his very good friends would encourage Jimmy to play for him. Still feeling shy about his guitar skills, Jimmy would always deny the request. However one night, he decided that he could record a song just for his friend. It took him several days to finally come up with "Let Me Introduce Myself" . It was the beginning of online music (still a few years before iTunes) and Jimmy decided to post the song on one of those websites. The song ranked quite well and got air time on the famous "Upper Room with Joe Kelley" radio show. Seven years later, Jimmy decided to finally put everything on an album and this is how the "Words Don't Say It All" CD got released in 2008.