Today we’d like to introduce you to Terrell Davis.
Hi Terrell, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
I was born and raised in Detroit Michigan and as T-Spackle. I’m now making powerful new waves across the Atlanta dance and music scene and beyond state lines to your favorite music festivals and events. Having begun my journey in 2015, I have stacked skilled mixing in styles from dubstep, riddim, tear out, and house to hip-hop, old school RnB, and unheard re-imaginings of your favorite top 40 tracks. The passion and unity that I witnessed in my local scene as I’ve gained respect and support gave me a drive and determination to perfect my craft. Further influences by mainstream artists like Dion Timmer, Skrillex, and even more underground artists like Vezzel and Phocust fuel my desire to give audiences feelings of elation and enjoyment on the dance floor. Being involved with growing musical projects and affiliations like Emerald Summers Presents with other amazing local talents like Alaaniel, RaidenRok, and Dirty Lux only sharpen my live performances and reinforces my mission to spread the initial good feeling that EDM has given me, show how music can come from the heart, and how it can speak to the souls of the masses!
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
My biggest challenge has been having confidence in what I provide in a performance and trusting that the crowd will receive it the way similar to how I have received other performances which have changed my life — That, along with finding the right mentors I trust to coach me through the process of making music in a way that I know will express my music exactly how I hear and feel it in my mind have been the things that I’ve found challenging. Currently, I’m in search for those right mentors and hopefully, I will have them before the end of the year.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
Besides just being a DJ, I like to take my audience on a real journey through music. Of course, you’re going to headbang and dance, but even more so you’re going to forget about all the troubles that life brings you, even if only for an hour. When I get up to perform it’s a lot like a ministry to me. I present you with a song, a vibe, a feeling, and even sometimes a WORD, and then you do whatever you feel that you are led to do with it. Those are the things that set me apart. I don’t just get up there to press play and make a few bucks. I get up there to help you celebrate the good things that life has brought you, through your sorrows when life gets you down, through your anger when all hell is breaking loose in your life, through your pain when you feel lost or when you’ve lost something or someone close to you, but most importantly through and to the love that connects us all on the dance floor regardless of who/what you believe in or don’t believe in, who you love, what your race is, or what your political affiliation is.
What quality or characteristic do you feel is most important to your success?
In the EDM scene, we have a “code of ethics” that is simply known as PLURR, which means peace, love, unity, respect, and responsibility. This has been my driving force for my music and my life ever since I learned about them. Even in my traditional Christian upbringing, I was always taught by my Bishop Jim Swilley and my current pastor, his son Judah, to love God and love others in the same manner that I loved myself. It only made sense that I would gravitate towards the rave scene’s code of ethics because they pretty much sum up everything that I believe about life and how to treat your fellow man.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: Instagram.com/TSpackle
- Facebook: Facebook.com/TSpackle
- Twitter: Twitter.com/T_Spackle
- SoundCloud: SoundCloud.com/TSpackle
Image Credits
Alaaniel Davis Rose Lo Nick Brower
