Born of a white mother and an absentee Kenyan father, residing in Indonesia as a boy, raised in adolescence by a white single mother in Hawaii, he was forced to figure out his place in life on his own.
Hijo de madre blanca y padre keniano ausente, su infancia la pasó en Indonesia y la adolescencia, al lado de su madre soltera en Hawai; por lo que se vio obligado a hacerse un lugar por sí mismo.