Meet Timothy Trumpet, Jr. of TrumpetSoundz in North Druid Hills

Today we’d like to introduce you to Timothy Trumpet, Jr.

Thanks for sharing your story with us Timothy. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
TrumpetSoundz spawned from my work as a recording artist. When I began releasing music on Soundcloud in 2017 under my stage name “TYMMYT” I soon realized that to make any of it substantial that I would have to have some sort of entity represent me, so I just came up with the name “TrumpetSoundz” because Trumpet was my last name. The more I think about how I began my path as a musician I can’t help but feel like it was always there. For as long as I can remember I had always had an eclectic love of music. My Dad would always play all types of music from old hip hop to underground alt bands who hadn’t turned mainstream just yet. My grandpa would always play smooth jazz anytime I was in the car with him so that just put certain sounds in my ear growing up. It wasn’t until I was about 11 or 12 that I got to get into understanding music by playing trumpet in the band.

A lot of the members of my family are musically inclined too like my Dad plays the drums, and my uncles can play guitar, my aunt is a jazz singer, my grandma made a record or two when she was young, and now my cousins make music too. I think I was the only one who thought that with the last name like Trumpet playing the trumpet seemed to be the best fit. August 2017 marked the real jump for me as a recording artist though. I was heading into my sophomore year at Bard College and I just wanted to see how much of this passion I could make into a reality. Now, going on three years later, I’m about to graduate and have met so many great people along the way of making a place for myself in music that I just want to keep growing for the world to hear it and catch the vibe.

Has it been a smooth road?
In no way was it easy to get to this point, and a lot of things had to fall into place just right for me to even get this far. I just chalk it up to divine timing. At one point in my life, I didn’t even think I would finish high school. My family had gotten evicted around 2013 and we had to live with my grandparents who lived in the West End until my senior year of high school. The high school I went to was the best thing I had because of the band and my friends honestly so my family scraped up the cash to get me there every day. Looking back, I just think about how hard it was feeling like I couldn’t tell anybody anything about my situation out of mostly self embarrassment you know? I try to talk about those times often now because I realized that when life would throw a curveball at me I would just turn into a lone wolf and hold all of my pain between myself or my family. It wasn’t healthy. I started acting out and doing things that could have just resulted in me getting locked up somewhere, but I had my family with me to hold me down so I was able to stay on the right path of my life more than not.

Tell us more about your work.
TrumpetSoundz is just the label name housing the things I do as “TYMMYT”. I just want to foster a team of artists and creatives who can pool their resources and ideas together to create great art. What I hold as an important, maybe even the most crucial aspect of TrumpetSoundz is the push for everyone to have ownership. I aim for the label to serve as a vessel for fostering independent artists just like myself. 2020 marks the time when artists in the music industry have complete access to all the tools needed to form a sustainable lifestyle as an artist. I believe in a label that can aid in that process and partner with artists rather than trying to scam the talent of the world out of their time and money. Right now, we’re still at the starting stages, but whenever the building blocks come they always fit perfectly so the goal right now is to just enjoy the journey and work endlessly to grow as much as possible.

How do you think the industry will change over the next decade?
The music industry is a tough case because I feel like there are so many avenues, resources and artists that the next big thing that would shift it probably already exists but just might not have reached the spotlight yet. It just seems like change is so exponential. At the start of 2010 people were buying CDs and now, ten years later, streaming is the main way people digest music. It’s just mind-boggling to even try to predict what could just pop up in the next five to ten years. Who’s to say we’ll even have streamed in the next five years? Who’s to say artists might even be bold enough to unite and form their separate streaming services like Tidal or various versions of Soundcloud? There’s no telling what could happen, but I am sure to say that the sound wave of music that everyone is on will definitely change soon. With so many artists nowadays losing their lives to addictions it just has to.

Contact Info:

• Email: ttrumpetsoundz@gmail.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tym.myt/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/trumpetsoundz
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/tym__myt

Image Credit:
Miles Bitton, Jah’Marra Garcia, Jazondré Gibbs

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