TERRENCE YOUNG

Forever Young

By Cedric Nettles

After nearly 2 decades, musician Terrence Young Is Still Killing It Congrats, we selected you to be recognized for your stellar career and commitment to community impact through your music. My uncles were all musicians and they were my biggest influences. I started playing at 10 years old and they always encouraged me to make a career out of it, but know the business first and foremost. I took their advice later and created 2 successful groups Finesse Band which is a Corporate/ Party Band and my solo jazz group The Terence Young Experience. This year 2020 is 18th anniversary with my groups.

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How did your music keep you going? Music kept me Going in many ways. For one, imagine doing what you love to do and making a great living out of it. Music is my hobby, vacation and job all in one. It’s an escape from life challenges and stress and I can express myself emotionally through my music.

Could you talk about your most memorable concert? My most memorable concert is when I opened for the Legendary Motown Duo Ashford and Simpson and technically ended up playing for them. Their band got stuck in a Snow Storm in New York so they ask me to be the music director and having to learn their entire show in 3 hours along with rehearsing with them. That was a nervous, stressful and an awesome experience.

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You are fixture here in Columbia and nationwide, how do you think artists like yourself are impacted by Covid-19, and how do you plan to contribute to Columbia’s comeback?

As far as Covid-19 the effect has been horrendous in the music community. Being that a lot of musicians full time jobs were playing music, filing for unemployment is challenging because there’s no record of them working for a company… Some musicians worked mostly for cash and tips not ever filling taxes so they can’t get a stimulus check because again no record of them in the system. As far as myself I’m a businessman so my business was ran properly. The comeback I believe is going to be huge because this quarantine has taught America to appreciate the things they may have overlooked. Musicians are doing a great job on social media doing Facebook Live Concerts and showing the world their amazing talents. And they are also showing what they’ve been missing out on all this time. I believe now that the world is paying attention.

Can you talk about your band and how that came together? My bands came together because I had a vision, a plan and faith. My uncles taught me to always have a plan before proceeding with anything because a person can have a million Ideas but if there’s no plan in place it will likely not happen. I made it happen because of I had those 3 things and a passion for music. A person will only put 100% into what they really want to do and music is all I ever wanted to do.

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