From drums in church to Billboard charts — this is how it started.

I got my start in music early — drums at 5, trumpet and baritone in school band, and eventually piano by ear at 15. But it really clicked the summer of ’02, messing around with Fruity Loops on my mom’s old family computer. That one summer at my cousin Justin’s house changed everything.

By 2004, I had my first MIDI controller and a hunger to create. I’d spend nights layering drums, finding melodies, and experimenting. Gospel, soul, funk, hip-hop, and pop ran through my household, but hearing contemporary gospel at my friend JR’s church is what really shifted my ear — it opened me up to new textures and emotions in music.

At one point, I got accepted into the Musician’s Institute in LA during college — even auditioned and made it in. I backed out last minute. That was one of those “what if” moments that I’d later circle back to in a powerful way.

After graduating college, I went into law enforcement. I was good at it, but I knew deep down I was meant to create. While succeeding in that world, I started watching YouTube videos on producing and slowly got pulled back into it.

Then the signs started hitting me heavy.

I randomly bumped into Eric Stanley, a popular violinist at the time, in a grocery store. We talked, exchanged numbers, and next thing I knew I was in his spot downloading VSTs, Kontakt libraries, and getting re-exposed to the grind. He even secretly signed me up to perform at a live music night that same evening — which pushed me back onto a stage I hadn’t touched in years.

A few months later, I met a guy at the gym who introduced me to another producer he knew — someone I realized I had met five years earlier at a random Guitar Center trip. I still had his number in my phone. That person ended up being London Louis, my production partner in what would become our duo, The Culture.

Crazy enough — we were both trying to move to Atlanta around the same time, and some of our music networks already overlapped. That move changed everything.

Placements started rolling in:

• Verse Simmonds – “Body Yadi”

• KR – “Party” (2017)

• KR – “All Goes Down”

• Kiana Ledé – “Get in the Way” (2018)

• Tory Lanez – “It Doesn’t Matter” (Top 20 Urban Radio, Billboard)

• Collaborations with Ace Hood, Savannah Cristina, Arin Ray, Rah Swish, Ross Ramzey, Roe Xander, and more.

I was also invited to work on an album with Musiq Soulchild — which still blows my mind, since I did a cover of his song for my high school talent show. We ended up working on two records together that haven’t been released yet, but the experience itself was full-circle.

DJing came naturally. I was always the one curating vibes at house parties and college kickbacks. That’s how I learned to read a room before I ever touched a controller. In 2016, I got my first DJ controller and started taking it seriously. A few years later, I added turntables and continued to refine my skillset.

Since then, I’ve played private events, weddings, and brand activations for clients like Credit Karma, TQL, NASCAR Hall of Fame, City of Charlotte, and Carolina Panthers’ Steve Israel. I treat every event like a canvas — blending sound and emotion in real time.

And to this day, I still think about what my mom told me:

“When I was leaving the hospital with you, a woman looked at your hands and said, ‘He’s going to play piano one day.’”

At 33, I finally feel like I’ve got my wind. The vision is sharper. The foundation is set.
Now it’s time to scale.

No Genre, Just Feels isn’t just a tagline — it’s my story in motion.