We were lucky to catch up with Beautiful Perfection recently and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Beautiful thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Can you talk to us about how you learned to do what you do?

Music is my first love, so as a child I spent countless hours listening to the radio, my parents record collection, and looking at music videos on BET & MTV. At that early age, I didn’t know music by genre, I separated music by good music and bad music. I told my parents that I wanted to learn saxophone, after listening to a Grover Washington album. He looked cool on the cover of the album with his gold sax and I loved the sound of the saxophone. My parents bought a horn for me and from there I had some formal training, but I pretty much taught myself how to play sax, piano, and drums by mimicking my favorite songs at the time.

I wouldn’t speed up the way I learned music. I believe the time I spent being trained in a classical music format and mimicking my favorite hip-hop, rock ,& r&b songs made me the musician that I am today.

The skill I feel is most essential to being a good musician is having “good taste”. I believe If you have good taste in clothes, art, movies, women, etc., I think it translates into the music that you create. I can hear when something isn’t good and wont appeal to the masses, and I think that comes from me having good taste. I think good taste is a underrated skill.

The only obstacle I encountered early on was the lack of access to the information of learning the music business.

Beautiful, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I consider myself a creator, but to simplify that title for the readers, I produce music, I DJ, I write songs, I direct videos, and I design clothes. I entered the creative industry during college by making hip-hop beats with a college friend. We created beats everyday for a whole summer, and when we felt confident in our work we started mailing tapes of our beats to people we found in a music industry book we found in Billboard magazine. Soon enough, we received phone calls from multiple people who are now legends like Stu Fine, Tony Maserati, and Craig Kallman. Craig Kallman called us to do a remix for a Mad Skillz song called “The Nod Factor”. Tony Maserati called us to do a remix for a K.D. Lang song called “Sexuality”. So those were our first placements in the music industry and from there we did additional production and post production work on numerous songs with multiple producers and artists. Some were minor hits, but mostly album cuts. From there me and my production partner formed Darkroom Productions and our goal was to become “super producers” and create a boutique record label. We started recruiting artist in Baltimore and DC to develop and work with. This work lead to a mixtape series entitled “Hamsterdam” named after the notorious open air drug market from the tv series “The Wire. The mixtape began to circulate in Baltimore and landed in the hands of staff of “The Wire”. The music director and creator of “The Wire” wanted to include music in the show in the background from artists from Baltimore to give some scenes more authenticity. We did a deal with HBO to produce music for seasons 4 & 5 and also produce songs for the soundtrack. This work lead to us being featured in many publications and also working with multiple hip-hop & r&b artists on mainly mixtapes and some albums. Im very proud of the work we did at the time because it gave many artist from Baltimore and DC a major platform to display their talent for the first time. Currently, im working with and developing aspiring artists from Baltimore to help them reach worldwide notoriety and acclaim.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

I’ve met extremely talented people in the Baltimore area, so my mission is to help turn the city into one of the major entertainment hubs in the country like Atlanta became in the late 90’s. We’ve had major r7b stars emerge from the city but no respect to anybody, but we still haven’t had a major hip-hop star emerge, and I want to accomplish this with my team entitled The Incredible Creation.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

The most rewarding aspect of being a creative is having an idea in my head be executed and released to the world exactly how it emerged in my head. I have ideas pop into my head all day, every day, and im not stopping until all of my ideas have been executed, thats my passion.

Contact Info:

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