VoyageLA - Rising Stars: Meet Marsalis Davis
Today we’d like to introduce you to Marsalis Davis.
Marsalis, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
My music journey started back when I was a freshman going to sophomore year of high school. That’s where I met my best friend Kevin in math tutoring. We never went to math tutoring for help at all, but mostly to look at the girls who did. In the back of the class, Kevin and I would be freestyling and make up all kinds of rhymes. That’s when Kevin had told me he actually had a recording set up at his house. From there on that’s where it started. Through the years of my adolescence, I never thought about taking music seriously until it was when I started going through a depression. Me and my mother didn’t get along so well growing up. It got to the point where I wouldn’t even speak to her. Feeling ashamed to talk to anyone about my emotions towards anything, I started taking my craft and morphing it into a passion. Songwriting started to become a major part of my life for me at this point. Knowing it was my only outlet to release and feel free, I began to become more engulfed.
