About Ziggy: Zach “Ziggy” Wilson from Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina; is a multi-faceted performing artist and producer His love and passion for good music has driven him to be a force to be reckoned with. Ziggy gives it to you straight, he is a full blooded Samoan, self-motivated, independently minded and has irreproachable morals. His early childhood as a Navy baby took him around the world and like most other child prodigies, Ziggy started his musical career in the church. He was born into a musical family as his mother and uncle were professional musicians. At age five, Ziggy was given his first guitar from the grandfather that would eventually raise him due to life tragedies. Ziggy’s heartbreaks included being born with acute hearing loss, his mother being murdered in front of him at age nine and enduring the …show more content…
A firm belief in his musical dream lead him from Roanoke Rapids High School to Full Sail University in New York City where he graduated with a degree in Recording Arts. He also attended East Carolina University to obtain his Business degree. However, his duality eventually caught up with him and sidetracked his musical quest. Ziggy decided he should serve his sentence rather than continue life on the outside doing probation for his indiscretions, it was during his incarceration that Ziggy’s life changed, he concluded that his past street antics were nothing but traps and distractions, his epiphany led to him renewing his spirituality and reinvigorating his motivation. Upon release from prison, Ziggy re-connected with some of his hometown friends and began making beats and dropping vocal hooks for the local talent. Ziggy’s reggae tinged vocalizations, from his performances with college bands, gave his voice a unique sound and as he started making Tropical Pop tinged tracks in the studio he realized he hit on a formula that was tailor made for
Dougherty graduated magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota in 1924, winning scholarships to Juilliard to study piano with Josef Lhévinne and composition with Rubin Goldmark. ]He moved to New York,
Anderson had a very strong musical education. At age eleven he began piano lessons and music studies at the New England Conservatory of Music in Cambridge. At his high school graduation from the Cambridge High and Latin School, Anderson composed, orchestrated, and conducted his class song. In 1925 he entered Harvard College. While at Harvard he studied musical harmony with Walter Spalding, counterpoint with Edward Ballantine, canon and fugue with William C. Heilman, and orchestration with Edward B. Hill and Walter Piston. Between 1926 and 1929 he played trombone for the Harvard University Band. He eventually became the director of the Harvard University Band for four years. In 1929 Anderson received a B.A. magna cum laude in Music from Harvard. The magna cum laude is the next-to-highest of three special honors for grades above the average. He was also elected into Phi Beta Kappa. Anderson continued into graduate school at Harvard. In 1930, he earned an M.A. with a major in music. He began studying composition with Walter Piston and Georges Enesco; organ with Henry Gideon and double bass with Gaston Dufresne of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. As well as his studies in music, he continued for his PhD in German and Scandinavian languages. He ultimately mastered Danish, Norwegian, Icel...
It wasn’t until he got to college that he returned to being more active in magic. He started at Queens College but soon tired of the long commute and iffy weather. Having become a fan of both Elvis Presley (yes, Mark was a collector) and barbecue, he decided Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis) would be a good school to attend (and maybe he would even meet Elvis; more later on
When he was two his family moved to Dallas, because his mother wanted a better life for her kids. When he was 16 he was making enough money on his own in Dallas to become a professional. While he was still a teen T-Bone self taught himself to play the guitar, banjo and ukulele. Walker also worked as musician at dances and carnivals. Walker began his profession...
Art Blakey was born to a poor family in the heart of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1919. He was working in the steel and coal mills when he was only fourteen. There were no child labor laws in those times. He had to work to help support his family and put food on the table. Blakey turned to music as a way of escaping the exhausting day-to-day labor of the mills. Blakey taught himself how to play the piano. Even though he couldn't read music, and could only play songs in three keys, Blakey was a crowd favorite a several local venues. He used to make fifteen-twenty dollars a night in tips every night he went. At fifteen Blakey was leading his own band. They were small and unknown, but played at clubs all around the city.
Osbourne Ruddock, known professionally and affectionately as ‘King Tubby’, the ‘Dub Master’ of all dub masters, is truly the Daddy of Dub, in every sense of the word. Not only was he one of the most innovative musical engineers of his time, but an artist, a pioneer, and a teacher to the procession of dub masters that would follow in his shadow.
Many people from the 1900’s contributed to the evolution of the history of rock and roll. However, Jimi Hendrix was the rock legend who changed the way music was made and he raised the bar for the rest of the music industry. Jimi was born in 1942, in Seattle, Washington, he had a difficult childhood, being raised by a young mom who had Jimi at seventeen and a dad who eventually left and started another family, he was often left living with relatives. He only saw his mom a few times before she eventually died in 1958. In many ways music became a sanctuary for Jimi since he grew up not having much. Jimi loved blues and rock and roll and when he was sixteen Jimi got his first acoustic guitar and taught himself how to play. Shortly after he began
At 22, after two-thirds of a year at Berea College in West Virginia, he returned to the coalmines and studied Latin and Greek between trips to the mineshafts. He then went on to the University of Chicago, where he received bachelors and master's degrees, and Harvard University, where he became the second black to receive a doctorate in history.
in high school in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1921 he entered Columbia University, but left after an
He met a girl named Cindy and she was the reason that he began to do drugs. It all started when Cindy Gravis said “you wanna get high?” (Blehm 43). Adam devoted a lot of his time to Cindy. He spent a lot of time with her and her friends. Later on Larry and Janice found out what was happening and decided that they needed to get this taken care of. A lot of times they did not even know where Adam was. Finally, they had Adam arrested. Larry said, “I’ve done the hardest thing in my life today. I’ve had my son arrested.” (Blehm 66) This definitely hurt them so much, but they knew that it was for his own good. Adam Brown had to live with “that vision-of his mother sobbing into his father's chest.” as he sat in his jail cell. (Blehm 5) Larry and Janice began going to church and praying for their son. They changed their whole life around, which ultimately changed Adam’s life as well. Them going to church became one of the greatest things they did for Adam. Their actions showed how much they cared for him. This is one of the greatest things they could have done. They brought Adam back from all of his hard times, and after getting arrested he knew he didn’t want to do that again. Janice and Larry were real
He was in their band. He played french horn starting in middle school and was a natural throughout high school. Noah elaborated on this by saying, “I enjoyed music very much. It helped me become the person I am by making me take responsibility for doing my part to help the band.” Also in the band, Noah met his amazing wife Laura. “I got to meet her after one of the Band concerts we were at, and after a while, I asked her
He began his music career started on Tin Pin Alley, New York Times American song-publishing industry, as a song plugger. On getinmedia.com, the author states, “The song plugger is the person behind the scenes pitching a songwriter’s composition
Bob Dylan was born as Robert Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, in Duluth Minnesota, where he spent the first six years of his life, and then his family relocated to Hibbing, Minnesota. By the time this musically inclined boy turned ten he could already play the harmonica, piano, and taught himself how to play the guitar. In his first year of high school, he formed a group, the Golden Chords. Dylan then went to the University of Minnesota for arts only to stay there for three semesters. After playing at various coffeehouses he realized school was not for him so he moved to New York, when he turned twenty years old and had hopes of meeting his idol, Woody Guthrie, who he visited many times at the hospital. (Bob Dylan Biography | Rolling Stone) During his time there, he signed with Columbia Records after being spotted by John Hammond, who he is still with today. In 1965, Dylan married Sara Lowndes and they stayed together for twelve years and had four children together, one of their kids, Jakob, is in a band called the Wallflowers. (Bob Dylan Biography) The first album he composed was folk songs with him singing while also playing the harmonica and guitar. This album self-titled, Bob Dylan, had only two of his original songs, “Song for Woody” and “Talking New York”. His second album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, inc...
After high school, John Coltrane moved to Philadelphia with his mother, where he experienced many musical elements and influences. He worked odd jobs and took saxophone lessons. For a little while John Coltrane studied music at the Ornstein School of Music, but his education was interrupted when he was drafted into the U.S. Navy at the end of World War II. Even in the Navy he played music regularly in the naval
Robert Allen Zimmerman, A.K.A. Bob Dylan, was born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Mississippi to Abram and Beatty Zimmerman. At a young age it became very apparent that Dylan had an amazing musical gifted. By the age of nineteen Dylan could play the harmonica, piano, and guitar. While growing up, his friends and siblings would have classified Dylan as a “loner”. Though Dylan kept to his-self as a child, he had very big dreams and ambitions. Dylan longed to be more successful than one of his heroes, Elvis Presley. In a way Dylan achieved his goal. He became iconic. Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard were just some of the artists who gave Dylan his drive. He would later go on to schoo...