Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Giovanee Welcome. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Alright, so we’re so thrilled to have Giovanee with us today – welcome and maybe we can jump right into it with a question about one of your qualities that we most admire. How did you develop your work ethic? Where do you think you get it from?
Growing up in a Jamaican household the culture and lifestyle kind of becomes a part of you. Seeing how life was growing up in Jamaica I understood that hustling was big part of the culture. Knowing this I felt like there was so much I can learn taking on countless jobs. Theres was a point in time where I’ve even worked 3 jobs at once. Ive done it all from the base worker to supervising, health field, and ultimately doing my own crafts. With each job that I’ve obtained was a new skill learned. I would then apply these skills to be able to handle any challenge to come. Anyone can go to school, but not unless you go though that experience you’ll never truly learn.
Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
Growing up I wasn’t the most outspoken person. I was a B+ student at best. Living in a slightly sheltered home it wasn’t always work hard, go to school and get a good job. These so called “good jobs” list only consist of your average doctors, lawyers and government jobs. No matter how much I thought about the career path I should take nothing stood out the most to me. Then early on in my high school years I joined the gateway program and that’s when my love for the arts started.
Joining the gateway program I focused on two things and those were culinary and poetry. Getting into the culinary aspect I felt so free with each dish I made. I was able to learn new techniques and flavor combinations. It lead me to branching off and teaching myself new dishes to make. If it was requested I’d attempt it. Hearing that a dishes I made was good made the efforts more worth it. I started selling something as simple as peppered shrimp to hosting BBQ and party just to be able to show case my skills in the kitchen. I focused on taking my culinary skills on a more intimate level with small groups for networking purposes. Getting into the poetry part it expanded my mind as well. Poetry to me was a way to have a voice as I said earlier I wasn’t much of an outspoken person. I never knew the impact a pen to paper had till I was introduced to Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes. Then the poetry lead to me writing music. I started writing music my later years in high school. I started a project with a friend years later right as covid spiked that it didn’t get too far. For the past few years I’ve jumped back into writing music with the artist name SimplyKG (Simply King) building what I call “Project Sloth” which I plan on releasing later this year. I came up with the name with two key things . I consider myself to be a simple person and a king. It’s going to sound crazy but it took two years to create this vision I had. You probably want to know why two years, well sometimes things have to come to you instead of chasing. Not to give too much details on the project it’s an ep. With this ep I want to tell my story and experiences allowing others to see through my eyes as well as few may relate to.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
The top of my list I’m going to tell you is to be humble. There’s nothing wrong with being prideful now and again, but being humble allows the thoughts to flow better. When you are too prideful at times you will continuously make things more challenging for yourself. There may be doubt in your work and there would be nothing wrong with it.
Second I would be your determination. If you really want something you’ll do anything necessary to achieve your goals. They say the beginning part is always the hard part, but once you get your foot in it becomes easier. It’s like getting a job. Applying for one and doing the interview is the hard part. Eventually a job will reach out to you. Maintaining the job becomes easy you’ll make a few mistakes at the start ,but you’ll always learn from them to be better then you were before.
Lastly I’ll say your communication is key. It not always what you know, but who you know. Saying that goes hand and hand with being humble. You never know who you’ll meet in life and your communication and how you carry yourself can be beneficial. You have people who don’t take criticism well or react in an unexpected way. You have to be able to sell yourself allowing your personality to shine.
Okay, so before we go we always love to ask if you are looking for folks to partner or collaborate with?
In the future as an artist I do plan on collaborating with a few other artist. I’ve actually reach out to a few starting and upcoming artist and they agreed to work with me so I’m pretty excited about that. To the kind of artists I’m trying to collaborate with there’s really no specific I believe I have an ear to know what sound or flow I’m looking for on a project and who I feel can deliver it best.
Contact Info:
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Image Credits
Justyn Harris
