MOULTRIE — When high school senior Logan Padilla says he’s busy – he’s seriously busy.

Padilla is the drum major for the Colquitt County High School 50th Regiment Band, plays trumpet in the Jazz and Symphonic bands, and sings in the Senior Men’s Choir. He is also a part of the high school drama club and is participating in the One-Act Play Competition piece. Not to mention, participating in community theater as a member of Arts Center Theatre at the Colquitt County Arts Center, where he directed his own show last January. Then, there are his duties for 4-H, which include project chairman and member of the Colquitt County 4-H Council.

However, he seems to take it all in stride and said he enjoys being a part of each organization.

“I’ve just had fun with all of this,” he said.

He said he gives his all to everything that he does.

“People say when you’re involved with so much, you can’t put 100 percent of yourself into everything. But I don’t think that’s true,” he said.

Padilla was born and raised in Colquitt County, living most of his life out in the county. He said when he was younger he sang with his church choir at Liberty Hill and that was how he became interested in music.

“I guess that’s kind of where it started,” he said.

Later, in elementary school, his teacher, Mrs. Cook, had an electric keyboard in her classroom and, he said, he loved the different sounds it made. So, he asked for one for Christmas and got it.

“I played with the sounds for a few days,” he said.

Then, he said laughing, he lost interest but he did start playing it later on. He learned to play a few songs “by ear” and said he only took a couple of months of formal training in piano. So, he doesn’t consider himself that great of a pianist, he said.

In middle school, he decided to take band classes and had to try out different instruments to see what he was suited to play. He said he tried percussion first.

“Mr. [Greg] Daniels said let’s try something else,” he said chuckling.

He then tried the saxophone but couldn’t get any sound out of it. He was just about to give up when Daniels told him to try the trumpet.

“I’ve been playing ever since. … I’m really glad I did decide to go with the trumpet,” he said.