Sky Surface Is Living Out a Life Seasoned with Musical Salt
Sky Surface has stayed steady on his musical journey
Sky Surface grew up in the rural areas of southwest Georgia. He developed a passion for music at an early age. His genre of choice being hip hop. There is a chasm of times and many miles between the child aspiring to do music in Blakely, Georgia and the man that now creates music in Mobile, Alabama. It is the same person, just older and wiser.
The desire to create a joyful noise using hip hop was manifesting itself in Sky Surface's daily life at the age of nine. Sky Surface stated, “I was writing music, freestyling, and beating on trash cans in school, at the house, and around the neighborhood, but I didn't start recording in a professional music studio until I was fifteen years old.”
Platinum Sounds Recording Studio in Albany, Georgia was the place that Sky Suface recorded his first rap songs. The studio was also frequently used by gold selling hip-hop artists, Field Mob.
During his early years of doing music, Sky Surface was able to garner regional success. He signed a record deal with an Atlanta-based record label, securing a $10,000 advance in the process. His records were played on the radio in Albany, Georgia; Dothan, Alabama; and more cities in that region. One of his records from this part of his musical journey is still played on the radio station in southwest Georgia to this day.
Stolen recording sessions and one fateful live performance at a nightclub changed the trajectory of Sky Surface's music career. A concert goer in the audience of one of his shows was shot and killed inside of the venue. Sky Surface reflected upon that night as he said, “People get hyped up off of music and make bad decisions. I saw that man get shot in the club that night and it help me realize the dangers of the lifestyle that came with the type of music I was making.”
The tragedy of that night offered Sky Surface the opportunity to analyze his life from a greater perspective than just pursuing the lights and screams that come along with being a rap star. The experience helped Sky Surface realize that life was a real long road that could unexpectedly dissipate in the blink of an eye.
The pivot away from rap included a change of geography and a five year period of musical hiatus for Sky Surface.
Sky Surface found himself in Mobile, Alabama seeking metaphysical growth and maturation. He had come across Bishop White and Apostle White, the leaders of a Christian congregation called The Church.
Outside of his new found spiritual family, he ran into Christian hip-hop artists that gave him a Christian hip-hop mixtape on a CD that had the likes of Lecrae, Tripp Lee, Canton Jones and other artists from the same genre on it.
An expected storm in a nightclub years earlier had conceived moments of soul searching that had drove Sky Surface away from creating music. In his quest for inner peace, his passion for music had found him on his road to peace.
After listening to the mixtape, Sky Surface got a new revelation about the trajectory of a comeback in rap music. He returned to the music studio after five long years to make hip hop music in the genre that he heard on the Christian hip-hop mixtape that he had received by chance.
Sky Suface stated,
“You have to see the light, even in the darkness. Because whether it be by voluntary choice, or involuntary in nature; your choices and decisions are going to force you to see the light. Some people don't see the light until the consequences of bad choices land them behind bars serving a long prison sentence. Some people are fortunate to see the light before being forced to by bad decisions.”
Sky Surface has performed in Atlanta, Georgia, the state of Texas, the state of California, and in the state of Alabama during his reborn music career. Sky Surface's latest album, Street Music, has also achieved a million streams across the digital streaming platforms of Spotify, iTunes, Tidal, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Audiomack, Google Play, Deezer, and other digital service providers (DSPs) that host his music.
Sky Surface also has songs featuring Christian hip-hop maintains Canton Jones and 1K Phew. He went from being inspired by their songs on a mixtape to those same artists being featured on his own tapes.
Sky Surface is appreciative of the success, but communicated that his aim is not to merely achieve fame as a rapper. Sky Surface said, “I want to use my platform to give other music artists and music business professionals a chance to have their gifts and talents get some light as we spread the gospel. We can achieve those two goals and feed our families at the same time.”
These days Sky Surface collaborates with his music producers Major, Jarius, Gibbo, and Palace, as well as his videographers Ray Knowledge, King James Jr., and Jenkins in hope of creating joyful sounds and visuals that give the audience light.
Sky Surface also spends time serving in the United States Army as a member of the 683rd Firefighter detachment based out of Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Sky Surface was matured by life experiences and metaphysical pursuits. Salt has been metaphorically equated with wisdom since antiquity, and Sky Surface's life and musical journey has definitively been seasoned with salt.
