STEVIE J’S FATHER WAS A GOSPEL SINGER
Stevie J knows how to play a gang of instruments and he has brothers who know how to as well. He inherited the gift from his father who had his own gospel band. Stevie wound up playing drums for the band at a young age and eventually played guitar for them as well.
My dad had a gospel band, and my uncles used to rehearse at my house. I wanted to be in my dad’s gospel band at 6 years old and when I started beating on pots and pans, [I heard] ‘When you get good enough on pots and pans, I’ll let you play drums, so you got to put a hole in all the pots and pans.’ A year later, I was playing drums for the Jordan Gospel Singers. My uncle let me pick up his guitar and I started learning that. My dad let me pick up his bass and I started learning that. The keyboard players let me test their keyboards. As I went to high school, I picked up the trumpet and saxophone and various instruments…I never took a lesson for anything — all God-given talent. A lot of cats nowadays, they don’t play instruments. I looked up the best of them and that’s all I wanted to be. The best.
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