We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Jaye King a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Jaye, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today We’d love to hear about the things you feel your parents did right and how those things have impacted your career and life.

My mom was a single parent. She taught me on many occasions that my anger can be redirected to do the right thing. Rather than loud outburst, focus it on something productive. Her work ethic inspired me. She worked hard to provide for me and my sisters. Today, I focus that “passion” on helping others like me see that there is more to life than what they can see. Perspective is reality and my moms shared perspective to me helped to shape my perspective today.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

This is a solid question. I got started in my path of music through church. I grew up around church and played drums. Music and sports was always where our community was found. We escaped through loud, relatable music and worked hard in athletics. Wasn’t until I didn’t grow(height) coming into high school and my experience with the Holy Spirit that I truly turned to music. My stature discouraged my pursuit of sports and intensified my curiosity in music.

Through music, I aim to tell stories and provide perspective that spreads faith, hope and love to people everywhere. Music always gave me hope for better days. Through artist like Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Al Green to name a few. I wanted to be a part of this. Offering those without hope for tomorrow, something to look forward to through music. Pair that with my faith, a labor of love would be doing my part through my musical gift to share this with everyone. Just doing my part like so many other great artist have done for decades.

I am most proud of the honesty in my life. My artistry isn’t a character I dreamed up. It’s truly me. My life, the struggles, how I found faith, telling my story for others to find hope and doing something with what I have learned as an act of love is inherent to who I am. I’ve always learned from the mishaps and mountaintop experiences others grew through. I hope to live my life in a way that others find inspiration to take a new path or try something new.

Main thing I’d love for potential fans, followers or clients interested in my brand to know is I support good news. News for those who are broken, hurting, needing direction or a voice to amplify to good. “If you don’t have something good to say, don’t say anything at all.” Well, I found someone good and I want to share Jesus with everyone I can. One song at a time. If you’re considering me, we will band together to help people everywhere through music and outreach.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

Most rewarding aspect of being an artist or creative is originality. It’s all truly borrowed. We are heavily inspired by those who came before us. To be a great creative, you must study and honor those who came before you. God was a creator. As a creation creating, I get to put my “original” stamp on an existing work. Just doing my part to keep the history of good news going.

Are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?

FOR SURE! Delegation isn’t weakness. Do what only you can do. It’s ok to find able, more competent people to share you vision with and link arms to accomplish great things. Don’t feel you need to do it yourself. It’s usually out of fear we choose to “do it ourselves”. We don’t want to be hurt or robbed of what we are doing so we work harder instead of smarter. Life happens. People hurt but people also help. God uses people to accomplish His greatest work. Being a leader means delegating and allowing others to help you along the way. Behind every great leader are a host of smarter advisors and relationships. Leverage this.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.jayeking.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jayekingmusic/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jayekingmusic
• Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/jamar-king-b308871b3
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/jayekingmusic
• Other: linktr.ee/jayekingmusic

Image Credits
David Gardner, Riley Thornton, theChapel.cc