Today we’d like to introduce you to Trevor Wiggins.
So, before we jump into specific questions about the business, why don’t you give us some details about you and your story.
I grew up in small town northeast Georgia. Typical single mom with two boys upbringing. You know how the struggle goes. My mom started getting less mobile and more sick when I was in high school and by the time I was 21 she passed and I was lost.
I had just finished college at AIMM in Duluth for audio engineering and spent a whole lot of time trying to find myself.
I bounced around North East GA, couch surfed Johns Creek, Duluth, Gainesville and a couple of other places before landing in Athens because I wanted to be closer and do work in ATL but rent is wild out here.
In all this time I dealt with a lot of depression and a whole lot of money issues but I kept writing, performing and engineering. Somehow I landed in the position splitting my time between Atlanta and Athens doing all of those things for various artists.
Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
My mom died and my world kind of crashed.
I had spent a couple of my formative years helping her take care of my grandmother but both of them were really too sick and bills were too expensive. My grandmother needed around the clock care and I think that took its toll on my mom more than she ever let on.
After she died, my only choice was to live in that house or figure shit out. I had spent my whole life with the idea that I would take care of my mom and we would get by. That was my existence until she died.
I had dealt with small bouts of depression before that but I spiraled. I drank, dropped acid, and did a whole lot of things I was too fucked up to even comprehend. I’m sure I hurt people’s feelings and I still struggle with the idea that I spent so long in a haze that I lost myself.
Me and three of my friends turned brothers started a music group (The YOD) in all this time but we were all lost. All depressed and scared of the world. We had no running water for the better part of a year. We would lose power. We were in our early 20s and barely eating but always chasing a high. Idk man. We didn’t understand any of this and nobody was telling us we were wrong; they were just telling us they were worried.
Even though all of this I worked. Drunk, high, sober. I always managed to get to work and win over my bosses enough to not fire me.
I slowly kept building my studio because music was all I knew. (It’s still all I really know.)
I was low. Like super low but something in my mind kept me going. Through depression and attempts at my own life, something inside me told me to keep going.
Alright – so let’s talk business. Tell us about Trvy – what should we know?
I think I’m most known for being a little ridiculous and little in over my head at all times. I just want to work on something I love.
I mix music and I make a lot of songs. I shoot videos and take pictures. I market it all but not in a like “I’m great at all this”. I just do it with the idea that I know what I want.
I want to be comfortable in a way I’ve never really understood but I want to help others as well. I want to produce the best version of music that I can with the best people that I know.
I’m just proud that I’ve made it this far. That I’ve found people that sit at the table with me and are excited to explore this existence with me.
Any shoutouts? Who else deserves credit in this story – who has played a meaningful role?
My Aunt Mimi (Melissa) – is probably the reason I made it this far after my mom passed. If my mother was the air of my existence, my aunt could only be described as the water. She’s honestly the reason I know anything about the world after my mom died and I owe everything I am to her.
The YOD, BYV, and Volumes Hip Hop – the people who’ve stood beside me on this journey of music and life. We have and will always share our successes because we built this together.
Victoria Utz – my girlfriend who makes me a better person and a better artist. Nobody pushes me as hard as she does.
Pricing:
- Book Recording Sessions – $70 for 2 HR
- Features – $150
- Videos Starting at $150
Contact Info:
- Phone: 7064992293
- Email: trvyfeatures@gmail.com
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/trvyf
- Facebook: www.Facebook.com/trvyf
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/trvyf
Image Credit:
PICTURES – The YOD, ALBUM ART – @XLCHORTY
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