Striking a Chord with his audience
They say behind every overnight sensation there is a decade of hard work, and if so, Monroe's David Jenkins, 20, is poised for fame.
He first started playing guitar at the age of 11, having heard the music of Steven Curtis Chapman, a leading Christian musician whose music Jenkin's father enjoyed. In the next nine years, the home-schooled youth learned to play drums and bass, then taught himself to record his own music on a multi-track recording device, allowing him to play every instrument on his compositions.
