Jesse Turner of Siggno opens out about overcoming personal problems.

Jesse Turner is the frontman for the Latin Grammy-winning band Siggno. The award-winning singer and artist recently spoke up about overcoming personal life challenges, including depression, through singing at an early age.

Turner’s father died while he was a child, and he suffered with the grief as a teenager, according to an interview with Tejano Nation radio affiliate La Voz 93.3 FM in Abilene, Texas. “You’re aware of my hardships. I was a melancholy youngster, a boy whose father died when he was seven years old, and I was trying to figure out where my father went when I was 13 or 14, so I became a cutter,” Turner explained. “After I became a cutter, I hurt myself, I ended up in the hospital and I realized I was hurting my mom.” Turner began creating songs to combat depression, and it became therapy for the young composer.

“That is why I wrote ‘Mama’.” “I said, ‘This girl isn’t the love of my life; my mom is,'” he confessed. “So, instead of cutting myself, I began cutting paper with a pen, which eventually became songs. I began writing lyrics. I began writing song after song. That’s why I was able to compose so many songs early in my career: I was in therapy with God and myself, writing my tale.”