I have a lot of different interests, but my leading source of expression is music. Songwriting, production, and arrangement are pretty much how I got inspired to seek other forms of art.
I also have an interest in visual art as far a cinema photography goes and directing. I guess I look at myself as a curator and kind of think of things as facades from all different sides. If you have a specific vision and your vision taps not only into the music, but visuals, aesthetics, design, etc, it can be hard sometimes to give up some control over what you already have built out in your mind.
You were born in Chicago, and raised in Jamaica. How did that influence your background in the musical field? The cousins I grew up with would take me to singing lessons and one of the things that was mandatory in my family was the arts. I would go to voice lessons and guitar lessons. Everyone had a musical gift and I was the younger cousin that would tag along and just wanted to be part of things.
It taught me involvement and it taught me to know my place. The time I did spend in LA though, I noticed all my friends were so happy! My friends in LA were so different from my friends in New York. Would you say your time in New York helped prepare you for LA? You know the saying if you make it here you can make it anywhere.
Did NY help you get focused? I mean, not really laughs. You learn certain traits based on what your upbringing is. Like, get your wingspan out a little wider laughs. There is nostalgia about New York, which is one thing that I understand because I lived there so long and came up in Brooklyn. That culture and community in Brooklyn is a whole different thing from the city life. I appreciate that aspect of New York, all the culture that I gained and people that I connected to outside my world.
Taking it back to roots and inspiration I came across your Andre cover, Prototype. Most definitely, who is he not an influence to? If a lot of people were in his position, they would close up or go crazy. To continue to champion and campaign what he believes in and continue to express himself freely is one of the hardest things to do. We know you take pride in your songwriting abilities.
I look at songwriting as a vessel, more so than anything. I realize I have to step outside of myself to speak my truth. But, what good is that going to do for anybody if nobody is being real with anyone? Would you say most of your songwriting is personal or are you using stories from other people? Never bound by the shackles of genre, we travel and shift through musical landscapes breaking down barriers in the process.
Our approach to music is similar to that of the spirited tribal warrior; conquering new land as we travel the world winning wars through romance. As we venture into a new level in our careers, we continue to embody the Zulu warrior spirit while elaborating on the romantic qualities in everyday life.
The greatest minds are the ones that connect wholeheartedly with their artistic visions and do all they can to make it reality. The Guru in us all simply craves evolution and tranquility which comes with experience, which is simply the process in which we become more and more true to ourselves: being able to acknowledge our flaws and mistakes and wrongdoings and grow for the better.
In this music there is honesty; pure understanding or putting forth the effort to understand the emotions that make us do what we do.
We write to express and highlight things within ourselves and our culture that we feel hold some sort of significance, good or bad. We deeply connect with the many cultures of the world, traveling and over-involving ourselves with awareness.
This music we bring to you is a sonic form of connection, a humbling form of passion, and the advancement of art in form of romance. This new This could be the worst homelessness crisis in the last 50 years and we can do something about it!
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