Meet Casey Powell | Musician, producer and creative director.

We had the good fortune of connecting with Casey Powell and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Casey, why did you pursue a creative career?
Being creative is one of the only things that can keep my focus for hours and I really love it. I’ve been playing music and doing art my whole life so when it came time to pursue a career I felt like I would be doing myself a disservice if I didn’t do what I did best and love the most.

Please tell us more about your art. We’d love to hear what sets you apart from others, what you are most proud of or excited about. How did you get to where you are today professionally. Was it easy? If not, how did you overcome the challenges? What are the lessons you’ve learned along the way. What do you want the world to know about you or your brand and story?
If I’m not playing guitar I’m either playing bass, drums, keys, engineering or producing (or all of the above) but no matter what I’m doing you can usually tell which one I’m doing by hearing it. I’m influenced a lot by funk, rock, soul, r&b and psychedelia and I love everything to be very vibrant in sound and aesthetic.

What I’m most proud of right now is the music video to my most recent release “DELICIOUZ” a lot of time and effort went into it and I had an amazing team helping me and I feel like it’s the first thing I’ve released that really has my sound and visual style captured.

How I got to where I am is mainly just not giving up and learning how to balance everything the best I can and knowing that the best you can is the most you can give. It’s definitely not easy and if I didn’t have people believing in me I don’t know if I could’ve made it this far. Doing music and art full time is a tricky game but it’s not impossible. Some of the best lessons I’ve learned is if your doing art don’t be afraid to get as freaky as you want with it cause what you think might be too weird might be someone else’s favorite part and you should always practice and drink water. Practice makes you better at what you do and water keeps you alive, both are keys to growing.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
Some of my favorite restaurants would be foku, el mocajete, and north of bourbon. Places to go, waterfront park, Cherokee park and Iroquois park. Drinks gold bar, meta, the pearl and atrium. Then the flamingo lounge has some fun shows as well as headliners, and Zanzabar.

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
This is funny, but It’d be very remiss of me if I didn’t dedicate it to Goku’s journey in “Dragon Ball Z”. Watching that show as a kid helped me frame my work ethic, approach to collaborating and seeking out mentor ship as well as seeing the value in training and friendly competition. I’ve definitely applied a lot of lessons I learned in the show to working in music and art. When it comes to mentors of mine that deserve some credit in my personal story; I wouldn’t know how to play guitar if it wasn’t for William Husband and Craig Wagner. I wouldn’t know how to record and produce it if it wasn’t for Michael Saunders. I wouldn’t know how to sing if it wasn’t for Kiana Del and I wouldn’t be as inspired if I didn’t get to play with all the amazing musicians I get to play with every week.

Website: Caseypowellproductions.com

Instagram: @caseypowellmusic

Twitter: @stratocasey_

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Caseypowellmusician

Youtube: https://youtube.com/c/CaseyPowellProductions

Other: https://youtu.be/GWNXpvEA98I

Image Credits
sally wegert, Jake Toloczko, paisley Thomas, Kiana del, jordan Blase