Rony Seikaly credits his teen years in Greece for his lifelong love of house music. “Greece is where I acquired a taste for house music as the evolution of disco,” he says. Though he’d been DJing since he was 14, he didn’t consider it a career back then. After a celebrated college career playing basketball […]
“It was pretty immediate for me…” says singer-songwriter Wrabel, of when he knew he wanted a career in music, having started playing piano and writing songs in his late teens. “Once I started writing, I knew this is what I wanted to do forever.” Along with Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, he notes his Great […]
Neal Francis has been playing the piano for as long as he can remember and always dreamed of becoming a musician. “Our first piano was in the dining room. I loved to perform for my family or anyone who would stand and watch,” he says. “My mom and dad had a huge influence on my […]
“I grew up in Trinidad around my whole extended family, lots of aunts and uncles and cousins,” says singer-songwriter TRISHES. “I was always singing, always performing. There was a period from about seven to 12, after moving to the United States, that I didn’t think I could be a musician, because none of the artists […]
“In the incubator, I suppose,” is David Keenan’s response, when asked when he knew he wanted a life in music. “I’ve always made music and it’s always made me.” Discovered at 15 after running away from his Irish to home to play guitar on the streets of Liverpool, the Dundalk bred musician and poet found […]
“I recently found footage of me as a two-year-old dancing in my childhood kitchen with my brother Jake while our parents played music around us. We loved it.” Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez recalls, of growing up in a family of musicians. “I was always singing and improvising with my family. It always felt like the path ahead […]
“We all had played in various bands together in and around Grand Rapids,” guitarist and vocalist Jacob Bullard tells us, of how he and Jacki Warren (bass/vocals), Brian Voortman (drums) and Chad Houseman (guitar/keys/percussion) became a band. They named themselves Major Murphy from a book about the paranormal. “It comes from a book written by […]
In case you haven’t heard: SIX60 are the biggest band in New Zealand’s history. Like, ever. After meeting at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, Matiu Walters (vocals, guitar), Marlon Gerbes (synths), Eli Paewai (drums), Ji Fraser (lead guitar) and Chris Mac (bass) formed a band in 2008. Their name came from their […]
If you somehow haven’t heard of Yung Bae, you’d be one of the billions (two billion, and counting) who hasn’t experienced his 2019 get-up-and-dance runaway hit “Bad Boy.” “Growing up in Portland,” he tells us, “I was always attending concerts…so I was very interested in anything that the scene had to offer.” Music was only […]
Josh A’s unique, signature blend of hip hop, rock and electronic music has garnered him more than 720 million worldwide streams. By the time he was 14, the native Floridian was already writing and producing his own music, earning an underground following for his meaningful tracks that cut to the core. It’s no surprise that, […]