“Art Imitates Life” + New Singles From My Debut Mixtape “Days In The Midwest 🌵”
I’m on a journey 🐫, your on a journey. We’re all on a journey. And just like all journeys, a unique path of my very own. Since releasing my mixtape “Days In The Midwest🌵” it’s crazy how everything that I wrote about from personal life experiences, free thought ego reflections, and pain expressed in my songs, either found it’s way back into my life again to test me, or brought me back to the lyrics, and comfort of my own music. Feelings of being lost, confused, and then rediscovering myself again. I guess art truely imitates life, as they say. Basically a Sagittarius ♐︎ will turn their wounds, into wisdom. I’m not perfect, but it’s the beauty in shining a bright light on my imperfections that allows me to clearly see the areas in my life, and places in my spirit that need most healing. It’s an uphill 🏔 battle.
All of my singles from my first mixtape are officially out. #FourWings 🕊 was the lead single released in 2019 which seems like ages ago. My new singles 11:11✨, #DaysInTheMidwest 🌵, and #BlackWallStreet💲 from my debut mixtape ‘Days In The Midwest 🌵’ are available now on ITunes, Spotify, Amazon Music, and all streaming platforms.
The inspiration behind the photoshoot for my singles was to pay homage to Black Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and my hometown Tulsa Oklahoma. I also wanted to show off me embracing my natural hair. I’m currently growing out faux loc dreads , and I think it’s important for people to see images of Black men, and women embracing their natural hair.
Another very important part of my photoshoot for my remaining singles from my first mixtape was to pay homage to my grandfather Curtis LaVern Wright, who passed away last year December 24th, 2019, on Christmas Eve in his sleep. Although he passed away peacefully, served our country in the Vietnam War, and lived a long life, 2020 started off rough for me, and my family before the COVID-19 pandemic. My grandfather was also also a musician, and his favorite artist was James Brown. He also played the electric, and acoustic guitar. The guitar 🎸 I’m holding belongs to my grandfather, and after he passed away I was gifted two, out of the many he owned that other family members got to keep as well. My Mother jokes all the time that maybe I get my voice, and musical hobbies, and performer interest from my grandfather. I feel like I took so much time for granted with him while he was on this Earth 🌎, being too preoccupied with life as a 20 something, and I wish I got to sing, and dance with him more. I plan to continue his legacy, by learning how to play the base, and acoustic guitars that carry his spirit, and incorporating that into my music.
#OnAJourney 🐫 was planned to be released this Summer 🌞, but as of right now it’s looking like fall 🍂 season! I appreciate those of you who are waiting for it. I will not disappoint. I promise it will be worth the wait! Going forward, I will no longer be making promise dates for mixtapes/albums. It will come out when it comes out. 2020 has been a challenge for us all! And that is apart of the journey. I’m doing this all with no label, or management. I’m independent, managing myself, and being guided by my own in intuition. The anxiety is crazy.