Bio
About The KaOwe
WHY I MAKE MUSIC
I grew up during a time when we had family and friends get togethers and when anyone saw the big group of people together, they knew exactly what was going on because music was the center of the whole thing. During that time, you'd see people dancing and doing the latest dances or even making up a dance to songs. We were doing group dances like the electric slide or the Smurf (who remembers that dance) and even doing a soul train line. There were people laughing, talking to each other. During that time, we had music that was fun and a lot of it talked about life, love, or sometimes nothing at all. It would be just a great vibing song. Today we have little to no music that evokes the feelings we had during those times. We had feelings of excitement, laughter, fun, and just feeling good inside. We had songs that educated people on life and life situations and now no one is making that type of music. Today a lot of music is so serious or about personal edification and self-praise. If it isn't that then a lot is about females spreading themselves wide open and dancing as explicit as they can or the degradation of women. Where are all the fun, educating, life experience songs? Today we have a handful of songs by some that come close and I applaud those artists that made them. But we use to have hundreds if not thousands of fun songs from hundreds of artists. My aim is to put as much fun, life experience, and life education back into music as I can by focusing on the people listening to it. I will be making songs about my life experiences but will also have fun with it and make songs that are just a groove vibe as well. I want to build a community that wants to get back to those awesome moments we use to have with music being the connecter. Because GREAT MUSIC CREATES GREAT MOMENTS!!! MORE TO KNOW ABOUT ME I grew up partially in Tennessee and mostly in Ohio. I come from a loving and supportive family comprised of my mom and dad plus 2 sisters. It was a time where we would go outside and play until the streetlights came on (and you better be home at that time). We use to play kickball and dodgeball in the street and that red playground ball was our playstation. I have jumped off bike ramps we built by stacking 3-4 concrete building blocks then put a board on top of it and jumped. When we would play basketball on the playground there was always that kid that would say Dr. J when he would take a shot or a kid yelling out Tony Dorsett or Franco Harris when running with the football. I used to drink water from the water hose outside and those saturday morning cartoons was everything. I never missed an episode of Soul Train and would stay up late on saturday nights to catch Wolf Man Jack and the Midnight Special. We road our bikes everywhere and no matter what girl you'd talk to they always said boys had cooties. Times were simple and a lot of fun. But every once in a while, we would have a meeting with that belt because we did something stupid. Trust me I tried my best to have as few of those meetings as possible. One of my sisters would turn into a female Usain Bolt when she saw that belt. I learned from her DON'T DO THAT!! Seriuosly though, our parents loved us greatly and did a great job bringing us up right. I could go on and on about growing up during the 70's, 80's and 90's, but I am going to move on. But let me ask this before I do, who told white girls in the 80's that spraying that stuff on their hair that turned it like concrete was the thing to do? I'll say this though; on a strong windy day their hair was never out of place. CRAZY!! Now I'm moving on.
I got started in performing music by having the opportunity to do it with people who have been in this business for a long time. But I would have delayed that start if wasn't for my fiancé pushing me to get out there. She continued daily to push, support, and encouraged me to believe in myself. So, I started working to develop my voice, sharpen my musical skills, and studying the art of performing. I also went to work learning how to be my own songwriter, producer, song mixer, and mastering engineer. This has been a process that dates back to me starting it in 2018. Along the way I have been fortunate to meet people who gave me bits and pieces here and there that helped on my journey. But a big source of help has been the 2 guys I've performed with over the past years. Those 2 guys are Del Saxman Jones and Maestro the Midwest Rapper. Del has taught me a lot about the business and how it works. He continued to emphasize the importance of being professional in this business. That goes from how you look, how you present and represent yourself, and how you interact with and treat others. Plus, the work you do behind the scenes that shows up when you perform. He also taught me about video work and creation as well running and doing the sound mixing for performances which I carried over into studio music mixing as well. What I have gained from him has been a tremendous blessing. Maestro has taught me a lot about performing and really feeling what you are doing. He's taught me about the energy and emotion that separates a mediocre performance from a really good to great performance. If people can't see and feel that energy and passion you bring to a performance, it makes it tough for them to get into you. For a lot of people, it would take years of trial and error to figure out and learn what they have freely given me. Because of them I have been able to somewhat fast track things a bit. But none of this would have been possible if it wasn't for my fiancé pushing me to put my name, face, and ambitions out there. So, I truly have been blessed (in so many different ways) and thankful to have her in my life. My family has always been there for me and supportive. My mom and dad have been also instrumental in encouraging and supporting me in life and on this musical journey. They would always ask how things were going and encouraged me to keep going. They also always kept me grounded and levelheaded. My sisters were always there being a support to me by showing love that a real family always shows. I also got that from my extended family as well. Music has always been in me to do since I was a little 6-year-old kid. I loved to dance and grew to have an affinity to play trumpet. I got a little plastic toy trumpet as a gift and I would always get it to play along to James Brown, Earth Wind and Fire, and other groups with strong horn sections. I would never miss watching an awards show because I loved watching the performances. They energized and inspired me, and those past performances drive me to this day.