Interview with Trace Marx - The Culture News

Interview with Trace Marx - The Culture News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ladies and gentlemen, Good afternoon, Welcome on the Culture News.
My name is David sob Rohan. I have the pleasure
to have today on night Heart with you all the
Culture News and many of the platforms are wonderful audience
name Trace Marks.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Let me spread it out for you. Trace Marx spelled
m A r X.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
He is a wonderful hip hop then sol afrobeats audience
who has released a new track called Angels All About
Me and we are so glad to have him today
over the phone.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Please meet Trace Marx. Trace, how are you today?

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Good? Good, Thank you introduction APCI, Thank.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
You so much for being with us.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
So first question I have for you is who are
you and how did you start music?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Where are you from?

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, thanks?

Speaker 3 (00:52):
So born originally in London and moved to South Florida
when I was about five, and I grew up around
this way. Parents in Jamaican, The whole family is Jamaican,
and yeah, I grew up over here.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
Now I'm in Miami living it up so good times exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
And who are the audience who have inspired you the most?

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Dude, I would say definitely Michael Jackson that number one.
You know you listen to some of our music, you
hear a lot of the harmony that I use, or
trying out different voices. I feel like every song I do,
I'll come up with a different way of doing it
from the last one. But it's really studying how even
Prince and Michael both would be in there just trying

(01:39):
different things out, taking things out, putting more things in.
And you know that I started music to your first
question when I was actually at FAU up in Boca,
and I was there and they had a class called
computer sequencing and pretty much for the mid term you
have to make a song yourself. So I was a
business manajor but someone I was just talking to music
all day at work street a PF change or whatever.

(02:01):
So they're like, you should take these lives. So then
all my electives became music electives, and that's how I
got into music pretty much.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
So good time ago, and indeed it's a it's a
beautiful journey. We're so glad to have trace marks over
the phone. So then fast forward into your new track
called Angels all about me.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Song for sure for sure.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
So actually it's a very deep song, my deepest song
for me. So I wrote the song probably a couple
of months ago, and you know, it was a protective song.
I'm a spiritual person, so it's you know, expressing a
different part of me artistically. I hadn't been to before.

(02:44):
And then unfortunately, you know, my grandfather was sick at
the time with Parkinson's. We've been dealing with that for
a little while now, and he happened to pass a
few weeks after I made the song, and then the
funeral happened to be scheduled for the same day that
I had already scheduled to record the song, so I went.

(03:06):
I attended the service in the morning and then recorded
the song in the afternoon, and it was like a
ten hour session and it just I could feel his
presence there. And then the song, obviously being angels all
about me, became, you know, a song attribute to Pops,
and yeah, it's kind of has gone that way, and
you know, the family and his wishes is that you know,

(03:26):
any help or anybody that wanted to donate with Donato,
the Michael J. Fox, Parkinson's and Jamaica Hurricane Relief foundations.
So you know, I made him co creator on the
song and the credits, and his half is going to
go to those foundations. So I'm real, real happy about that.

Speaker 5 (03:42):
And of course we have a special thought for your father, definitely,
and this is a beautiful tribute. This is a great
song Angels All about Me Trace March. So before we
start to say goodbye to each other, what are your
next projects?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
What is next for you?

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, I know there's a lot going on.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
You know.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
We got this song obviously, just came you know, it's
doing really well, pitching up and got a song and
just recorded. You might hear my voice is a bit stretch.
What last night, I had an eleven hour session recording
my first rock song. Actually, so excited to get that out.
And it's called My Toxic Trait, So I'm really excited

(04:25):
to get that one out. He came out.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
You know, it's perfect we wanted.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
So as soon as I recover, we're gonna get back
in there and finish the Mint and put it out.
That's January. Then there's an EP on Valentine's Day coming,
and then you know, pretty much every few weeks we're
gonna keep hitting him until till summertime with the album, and.

Speaker 6 (04:42):
Uh, you know, don't know by then, and we'll be
there to support you and to applaud you, trace Marks,
remember that name, trade Marks with this new song which
we're gonna play right now called the Angels All.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
About Me and All About Me, A beautiful song, ladies
and gentlemen.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
My name is David so We.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
I had the pleasure to have to tell on the
Culture news on I hout video a wonderful audist named
trace Marks. He had called Angels all about Me. Stay
chuned with us. It's a beautiful day.