Q

With a powerful falsetto and a knack for smooth, soulful storytelling, Q Marsden is well on his way to capturing the hearts and minds of an entire generation. Q was five years old when he started recording music. The 22-year-old singer-songwriter from Pembroke Pines, Florida, who was raised of by musician parents, fondly remembers laying down his first tracks in studios brought to Jamaica by his father, who produced hits for reggae and dancehall legends Sean Paul and Wayne Wonder. His mother - a former keyboardist for bands associated with Jamaican acts such as Beenie Man, Bounty Killer and Dennis Brown, and the music director at her church, where Q sang in the choir - showed him the art of performance. At home, his parents introduced him to Michael Jackson, which led Q to appreciate pop artistry at its highest level. On 2019's Forest Green, Q experiments with his sound, of adding drums to his production to singing in a lower register. Forest Green is a promising body of work from the young artist and hosts the single "Lavender," which has already reached millions of of streams, and the NBA 2K20 soundtrack pick "I Might Slip Away if I Don't Feel Nothing." "My music now bears no resemblance to Forest Green or even Thoughts," Q says of the evolution of his sound in the more recent self-produced and written project The Shave Experiment. He's in a different place now, so naturally the music is different. As he prepares to release more music, Q wants to focus on his message: "Evolve, change and give hope, nothing more, nothing less," he says.

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