Complex sentence: Though he never stopped writing and performing music, Etheredge primarily took on a successful career in software development, in which he worked for 21 years in software before deciding to return to music full-time in the early 2010s.
Split into simpler sentences: Though he never stopped writing and performing music, Etheredge primarily took on a career in software. Etheredge successfully worked for 21 years in software before deciding to return to music full-time in the early 2010s.