Originally from England but now based in Boston, he’s a podcaster, author, composer and producer who is the first missionary to become an EDM artist. In 2022 he put out a six-song EP, PLUS seven other singles and he’s targeting the middle of next month for his next release. As a minister he has preached to eighty thousand people and as a DJ Producer has performed to thousands more. On Spotify alone, his top five songs have been streamed over 680 thousand times. And the videos on his official YouTube channel have a combined total nearing a half-million views. Plus, one video released through Vevo on YouTube 16 months ago has more than 1.1 million views alone. He is touching lives everywhere through his music ministry as evidenced by his combined social media following of almost 112 thousand.
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“With my music I’m doing more than just creating beats. I want to put a very strong sort of gospel messaging in the music to lift people up, from anxiety, from depression.”
“My original idea was to put out an EP. But then once I started doing some research I realized, ‘Well, hang on, it’s quite a big ask for someone to listen to a new artist they’ve never heard of, for example, for 45 minutes, or for 20 minutes, even.’ But you give them a three-minute song, that’s not too much of an ask.”
“If you’re going to pay for promotion, it’s less expensive to pay for the promotion of a single compared to an EP of five songs or an album of twelve.”
“That’s actually what they teach in Berklee College of Music now. That seems to be the theme right now, to drip feed audiences with singles. But you need to have singles up your sleeve. You need a pipeline of material.”
“I started off in music in London. I was performing in London clubs. And when George Michael was alive… he heard some of the songs that I was performing in a particular London club, and he approached me, and he expressed interest to buying my songs.”
“I started playing piano from an early age. In fact, I first started playing the violin at school in the school orchestra… I was part of an orchestra that played to Queen Elizabeth II.”
“Let’s face it, trying to generate wealth in music is a hard task, right? There’s a lot of poor musicians out there that I know who don’t actually make it and they’ve held onto that dream for years and years and years and they haven’t really had any other income stream.”
“Don’t just kind of stay in that one lane hoping for your big break. There’s too many disappointed musicians who live that way and they end up poor. I would say develop multiple income streams that can help fund your own promotions, your own music career, until maybe that big break comes along.”
“The thing with EDM is when you hear a lot of the lyrics… it does have that feel good sort of sound design and tempo… it’s got a good beat, it makes people feel good, but quite often the lyrics are meaningless… It doesn’t exactly give people lasting hope in their lives. That’s exactly what I want to do.”
“I’m like a music missionary. I’m using music to connect with an audience, with the lost and a dying world, to bring the gospel, much like gospel music, but this is more of a modern take on gospel music.”
“On Fire”
“Set Free”