Today we’d like to introduce you to Smooth.
Hi Smooth, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
I’ve been singing since I was a kid but got my first taste singing in front of people when I was eight, my cousins ask me to help them sing my aunt happy birthday and when it came time to perform, they pushed me out in front of everybody and made me sing. Once, I was done everybody in the room got quiet and my momma started crying, I knew then I had something, I just didn’t know what I always wanted is to be a rapper though I always like the flashy lifestyle.
I really didn’t start taking music seriously until I got in high school, once all the girls found out I could sing I was singing every day; a few friends of mine had a group, and they were pretty dope but they didn’t wanna let me be in it because I had some problems with one of the member’s friends. I’d rather really be running the streets but after losing one of my close friends to gun violence, I told myself it was time to do something different, out of nowhere, I get a call from one of my high school friends and he asked me if I still sing because he had a song for me, I went to his house recorded the song and told myself, “I could get used to this.”
In 2010, I had my first son and started having problems in my relationship with my son’s mother so I started to write about it, and that is how the song should come about because I was cheating on her with a woman that I went to job corps with. Fast forward to 2015, I was sleeping in my car when I dropped my first album and I mean really sleeping in my car like nobody could ride with me because I had all my clothes in the back seat but I knew I want to do music, so I would get to work get off go to my cousin’s house to shower and get out hit the streets with my CD and give it away for free because I wanted the city to hear my music, that was 2015.
It’s 2021, now and people still come up to me asking about that first CD and I’ve dropped two EPs since then and hella singles, I’ve even started rapping and dropped my first single and video for the song Ms. Ratchet.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
I’ve been homeless, shot, and been in crazy relationships. I’ve even had my identity stolen but I’m still here for a reason, I guess God really has a plan for me.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I specialize in singing R&B that’s what I’m known for, around the city the “Ladies Man” is what they call me, but I recently started rapping, I guess you could say being my own feature what sets me apart from everybody else is that I could come in and sing and make the room melt or I could switch it up and make the room sit up and listen to me rap because of the way I say certain shit.
We’d love to hear about how you think about risk-taking?
2018 I quit my job and moved to Georgia to actually pursue music that was the biggest risk of my life because I was taking everything I had to go follow a dream that I still believe in to this day, it didn’t work out in my favor though but at least I took a risk most people won’t even do, hell I’d even do it again knowing what I know now.
Pricing:
- Hooks $75 ( singing )
- Verses $120 ( singing )
- Rapping hook ( $50 )
- Rapping verse ( $100 )
Contact Info:
- Email: [email protected]
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/smoothmusic816?r=nametag
- Facebook: http://Facebook.com/Darnelllevysr
- Twitter: http://Twitter.com/Smooth_1200
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCL64DIjAU7sGY5PQXBZPdXg
- SoundCloud: http://SoundCloud.com/Darnell Levy
- Other: https://www.snapchat.com/add/smoothmusic816?share_id=MzJDMkQw&locale=en_US
