Herman was introduced to music at age 3. Remembering his childhood days on the coast hearing sounds of Cal Tjader, Wes Montgomery, Ray Charles, Cannonball Adderley, Nancy Wilson, to say a few, soaking up and remembering everything he heard. 
He started playing saxophone at age 11 with his instructor, Charlie Banacas, who Miles Davis said, “If you don’t know Charlie Banacas, you don’t know music”. Over the next couple years, he played with the high school band, and the years following in club bands. He further studied with such people as Herbert Mims, who at the time was a musical director for The Whispers, John Handy (renowned jazz saxophonist in the bay area who made his bones with Charlie Mingus).
After graduating school, he became more active with music, playing in various venues throughout the Bay Area such as Yoshi’s, Great American Music Hall, The Boom Boom Room, Biscuit and Blues, and two stints at the Monterey Blues Festival. He played the Blues Cruise in the Caribbean, played with Blues artists Alvon, Tommy Castro, and Jake Sampson. He’s worked with various corporate bands as well as the original group Suspects of Soul.
He’s been playing with Rhythm & Soul since 2007.