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 BROTHA DEZ
UDC: Name? Who you are. Background Information? BD: My name is Dez, but they call me Brotha Dez. My background, I was raised in church all my life. My dad is a minister and my mom is a missionary. So I have had the background of a biblical type family pretty much all my life. I haven’t always lived up to that expectation of what Christs’ walk should be. I got back to my roots by an incident that happened to me, it woke me up. That told me that I need to be back with him. So that’s where it is beginning right now, I’m starting this ministry called “Soul Winner Click”. It’s a ministry based on bringing the gospel to the streets. UDC: Explain what Brotha Dez and Soul Winner Click mean to you? BD: Brother Dez is meaningless to me, it’s not about me, it’s about Jesus Christ. I go by Brotha Dez because that is my name. I’m not trying to be anyone I’m just being me. I’m being a vessel for him so my name means nothing, not to me anyways. UDC: Who are your musical influences? Why? BD: I have a lot of musical influences. I grew up on gospel albums and secular music. I grew up on hip hop as far as Run DMC, Big Daddy Kane, UGK “Comin Up” and Scar Face. Ya know, as far as old school stuff I’m talking about Bobby Womack and the Temptations. I had to listen to that because my dad liked Motown. I have a lot of gospel background as well so it’s all balanced a little bit. It’s all a learning experience.
UDC: What is one of your first musical experiences that you can remember? BD: I’m very musically inclined. I remember when I first learned how to play the drums. I played drums growing up in church at age five. That was my first time ever really playing in front of a large group and I became good at it. Even today I’m a professional drummer. Now, I deal with beat machines like the MPC, keyboards and synthesizers. Equipment like this can amount to new levels of blending in with what new music is doing today. |
UDC: What is priority number for Brotha Dez and Bread of Life? BD: Priority number one is to first preach salvation to the streets, in a streetly form to where people can understand it. God is raising a brand new army right now to be able to not compromise the things of this world but to be able to bring gospel to the streets. God chooses people like us to be able to push them into what they can understand. That’s number one for Bread of Life to be able to reach the streets and ministry of winning souls.
UDC: How do you feel the internet has affected your genre of music and the music industry as a whole? BD: It affected the whole industry as far as the burning of the CD’s, the people are not getting the correct amount of money that they are suppose to get, but sometimes you have to let them do that so your stuff will get out there. Some stuff you might want them to burn so it will get out in the streets faster and some things you might not want them to burn for economical reasons. I think at the same time it is messed up and it is good. UDC: What types of pressures do you face as an artist in your music? BD: By me being different, in the gospel industry, there are a lot of people against what I do, they feel it’s not churchy… that’s it’s not up to there standards. God has brought me to a higher level now to understand him in a better way so now I let him lead my life. That’s my thing now, letting him lead me and the rest of the stuff is nonsense to me. I just preach the word and do what I do, move on and be successful in that. That’s the whole point to why I’m doing this ministry, to win souls. UDC: Describe Brotha Dez five Years from Now? BD: Five years from now I will have probably won five million souls by then. I’m going to be successful and a millionaire. I’m prophesizing it right now as we speak. UDC: Are there any word you would like to express to your audience? BD: I would like to express that you keep Christ in your life first priority and everything else will have fallen in place. As long as you have him you can’t go wrong.
BROTHA DEZ
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