Ezemdi
Whats up, Its ya boy, Ezemdi. I'm 19 and goin to school at Berklee College of Music. It took me a while, but I've finally got some tracks on my site. I'm a recoding artist/musician,/producer. I've been doin some work and collaboratin with a record company on the rise over in Boston. I've collabed with artists like,Staxx, I.E, Lingo, and soon to be more. The label is Silvercity Records. You can check them out at Silvercityrecords.com. They have more recording artists on the way. WHITE CHOCOLATE PRODUCTIONS.. Coming soon......
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
I am what you would call an all around musician. I started playing the piano when i was six years old. After that, I got involved with other insrruments like the drum set, acoustic/electric guitar,bass guitar, trumpet, organ,trombone, xylohpone, and percussion. However, voice is my main instrument. I've only been singing for two years and I love singing more than anything other instrument. I know I still have a long way to go, but i'm looking forward to working hard and improving my sound.
I've been doing a lot of studio work. I started recording during my sophomore year in high school, but I really got into it when I teamed up with good friends like Jared Jones, Melvin Hill, Javan Hollagan, Micah Christian, Daniel Reynolds, Sipho Kitner, and some other local artsits. I'm very versatile when it comes to making instrumentals. All these people on my list here have diferent styles. HOwever,I'm looking to do R&B, soul, gospel, a lil Jazz, a lil pop, and a lil hiphop. Sometimse i may even go oldschool.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
I do some live shows. I perform mostly at Colleges. I have performed in Stone Hill College, Massassoit Community College, Bridgewater State, and Quincy College,and Umass Amherst.
A special moment to me was when I had to perform for my chorus class, during our finals. The reaction I recieved from my classmates was amazing.
Your musical influences
I have a lot of musical influences, but the person who influenced me the most would have to be Brian Mcknight. I really like his style, tone quality and lyrics. My other influences are Maxwell, Alicia Keys, Boys to Men, Nsync, and India Arie. Alicia Keys in my opion is the most taleted recording artist out there right now. She is someone that i would love to collaborate with. other influences are Justin Timberlake, Nas, Kanye West, R Kelly, and Usher.
What equipment do you use?
whenever i'm recording, the producers and i usually work with Magic studio delux, Protools, Acid, Cubase, or Fruiti loops.
Anything else?
Another thing I forgot to mention is that the piano is my second instrument. I do sing and play together a lot.
I'm very thankful for where i am right now as a recording artist. I would like to first and formost thank God for giving me the talent, drive and determination. I'm not gonna go anywhere as an artist without him.
I would like to thank my boy, Jared Jones,for really getting me into the music scene. His drive, and determination kept and still keeps me going. I also wanna thank my parents for helping me out with wherever, whenever and however they could. Its a good feeling to know that they are supporting me.
I wanna also remeber, Joy Okonkwo, Chidi, Okebalama, Ezemdi Okebalama, Favor, Kodi, Melissa Burke, The Jones Family,Melvin, Javan, Mrs. D, Danny, Micah, Sipho, Staxx, Lingo, Sergio, Romain, Melissa A, Melissa C, Rauleigh, DJ, Mike, Pastor Loui, Pastor Elezer, Sherry, Virginia, Andrew Geary, Aron Christian, Ben Albert, Ive Kem, Kim, Liz, Mindy, Marina, and Nick Edwards.
I'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER JOE
SANON, MICHELLE CHIEFE, KRISTI SAVAGE, CONNIE CABELLO, VYVY VO, JEANINE BUTZ, SHAONA SEN!, CASSANDRE PHILLPE, ANDREW GEARY, SOPHIA VEIGA, EMILY LEAFFER, JOANNA YACTAYO, KEISHA ICART, KENNY ALIONE, JENNY LARA-TEMPLIER, SABINE VICTOR, QUANTAI JAMES, TONI PASSILY,:FABIOLA GUITEAU, KATELYN HILL, JENNY JEAN BAPTISTE, OLIVIA DE PINA, NELSON dE PINA, TYLER KRAUSS, MEGAN MURPHY, TIESHA POWELL, JOANNA WAKELING, MARINA TEIXEIRA, JESSICA ZAMANSKY, SETH GOLDER, JASON MURELL:SCOTT MACGREGOR, GARRETT HOFFMAN, MIKE WALSH, SHAWN MURLEY, KEITH COHEN, PAUL GATELY, AARON FREEDMAN, PETER KALOGEROPOULOS, SCOTT WEINER,IAN MCDONALD, STEVE CONNORS
I also wanna give a special thanks to someone who just came back into my life recently. Rochelle, i'm not about to let you out of my life again.
If you have any questions just e-mail me at ecc86@verizonmail.com