Willy's Blog

Hey everybody what’s going on?
Just as Katie mentioned in her blog, you all have possibly heard our music and may have even watched our youtube videos but still you don’t know much about us as individuals. So… HI!!!! My full name is William John McKenna IV. I am 17 years old and am from St. Louis, Missouri.
Ever since I was very young my childhood dream was to be a baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals. Though I still love baseball, my dreams have definitely changed since then. I have since gotten into playing guitar, playing tennis and also doing a little bit of acting. I guess you could say that I am interested in just a little bit of everything.
I began playing baseball around kindergarten. Along with baseball I also took up tennis as a very young child as well. I began acting my eighth grade year when Katie needed help with finding guys for her one act play and I volunteered to help. Since then, I have done a few one acts and a few full length plays and fallen in love with acting.

I began playing guitar freshman year and just like every other activity I completely loved playing. I just though that it was such a cool concept that with this instrument I have any song that I want to play right at my fingertips. Even though I did not originally take guitar to play in a band I am so happy that I began playing when I did so I was able to develop my skill so I can now play all of Katie and I’s original music. One of the main reasons that I have loved playing guitar so much is because of our wonderful guitar teacher Michael Levine. Michael has been one of the main components to our band, both teaching us how to play guitar and helping us write the music to go along with the lyrics and he also currently plays at open mic nights and concerts with us.
Even though I play guitar, the true hero of the band is Katie. Katie had the original idea to even start the band. When she originally approached me about a band I was skeptical at first because it was just something that seemed totally out of the blue, but now that we have started there is no looking back and it is one of the best decisions I have ever made to agree to start kMw. Not only did Katie have the original idea for the band but she also writes the lyrics and is the one constantly pushing me to be the best I can and to contribute as much as I possibly can to the band.
I hope that this has truly let you our fans know more about me as a person. I love all of our fans and thank each and every one of you for the love and support you have shown us since we have started. Though we are only at the beginning of our dream we can not thank you enough for the encouragement so we can pursue our true life long dream.

Because Katie is insisting that I list my "favorites," . . .

Movie: Role Models

Band: Fall Out Boy

Food: Pizza

Celebrity Crush: Demi Lovato

Peace Out.

Willy