Music was still in my life – the internet music scene was just starting to bubble, so I spent most of my free time in New York City at Nuyorican Poets Cafe (slam poetry was my life-line back then), at The Wetlands for the Roots jam sessions, or in my dorm room scouring Napster for Dilla produced Slum Village demos. I enrolled at Sarah Lawrence College in New York and took all of the film history and production classes I could while minoring in African and African-American Literature and Creative Writing. The group disbanded when I was in high school, so I set my sights on filmmaking and writing screenplays. As a young, signed recording artist I learned how to write and record, studio etiquette…this is pre-internet when big record label budgets flowed like water, so I practically grew up in a recording studio. We never released any music, but the learning experience was invaluable. I studied dance – classic ballet, pointe, jazz, tap, hip-hop, and African – then when I was nine I landed a spot in a girls’ singing group. My journey as an artist started when I was a kid.

Jack, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today. Today we’d like to introduce you to Jack Davey.

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