My music: gospel-drenched, soulful music…socially conscious, spiritual lyrics that are Biblically versed…poetic and metaphoric love songs…I don't preach to people, but I share my thoughts on life so hopefully listeners can be touched by the experience. I take an honest approach to life, knowing that it encompasses all of joy, pain, conflict, understanding and more, and this all comes out in my music.My father was a pastor and choir singer, and my grandfather was a musician in a gospel quartet. Since I was steeped in a spiritual upbringing and deeply affected by the life-inspired lyrics of gospel hymns, I’ve always focused on impassioned vocals and heartfelt lyrics in my own songwriting. I want people to walk away with a sense of purpose, an urgency to find out what they should be doing in life. Traditional things like love, compassion, sympathy, mercy are out of style in favor of vices and materialism. But that stuff always has an end, or demise. When you have LOVE, you can go forever.As an artist whose music is so influenced by a higher power, I still struggle to live out what my music says. I understand that's part of being an artist. Once you reach that point you want to be, you can retire, but when you have pain and conflict, you have something to give to people...the only way you can get people to feel you is to be going through it or have gone thru it yourself. I'm writing about doing all the right things but still working my way towards bettering myself, and that's my struggle. But trying to ‘get right’ is everyone’s struggle, and that’s how I connect with people.My influences include lots of different artists and everything from gospel to soul, jazz to Afrobeat and reggae to classic rock, I try to infuse my music with what I truly feel in my heart, sharing emotions and aspirations that everyone can identify with. My forthcoming album, We the Beautiful: Children of the Sun, is a collection of both introspective and spiritually uplifting songs to inspire listeners to make a change for the better, both personally and socially. Everything I believe in manifests in the music. I’m even trying to reach those who may not have known that they are soul fans or how they are affected by spirituality – give me a listen, and hopefully you can understand the message in my music no matter what your background.
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