Music That Uplifts With Kevin Whalum

Carl Brown is joined by the talented and soulful Kevin Whalum. Get a peek behind the curtain to learn more about Kevin Whalum as an artist and performer through his interesting stories and the conversation he and Carl share in this episode. Listen to find out how Kevin pulls people in not only with his music but by pouring his heart out and his gift for relaying positive affirmations to change the lives of people, especially the youth. Hear more of how his music and words break barriers that not only go in the ears but also go straight to the heart. Highlights02:42 I want to pull in the listeners to an environment that you don’t need a lot to groove. You don’t need a whole lot of instruments or computers or sounds and all of that. 04:00 I was playing as I was singing which is not something I normally do. I don’t normally play anything while I’m singing. I can play bass but I don’t play bass when I perform so it was all new. It was new, new for me, new for the audience and I want them to come with me, trust me.  15:40  A lot of people don’t understand music, they don’t respect it as a real thing which is how you see people just expecting to take your music for free and don’t expect you to worry about it. That’s my intellectual property. 26:03 When 2021 came, I was put into what I call a season of solitude. I call it actually the beautiful season because it was extraordinarily painful and extraordinarily clarifying for me. It made me confront myself. It made me answer to my mistakes, to my poor decisions in life. 33:56 My gift is already present. I just need to use it in a certain way. ContactFresh Coast Jazz Festival