And I am so excited to continue our month of music with you.
My guest this week is Kaga King.
She is.
How do you even describe her?
A guitar phenom, somebody who is a musician who has pushed the boundaries of any definition, any template, any sort of box that you can imagine trying to describe music, especially focused on playing, playing guitar and a variety of instruments with strings.
She grew up in Atlanta, sort of a self described, extremely anxious and awkward kid, and turned to music at a really young age, primarily, though, as a drummer, as a way to kind of escape and feel good and get out of her head.
It was never supposed to be her career, though.
That was never her intention.
Until she found herself in New York at NYU again, studying something entirely different.
But an experience after that would change things and set her on a course that nobody ever really, especially not her, saw coming.
It's sort of like the dream story that you hear about, but this was her reality, and she has continued to grow and evolve and create stunning music in the world since then.
In today's conversation, we explore this eye opening, powerful, moving journey.
So excited to share, and as always, be absolutely sure to stay tuned to the end where Khaki actually arrived with her own beautiful guitar that she normally plays, but decided to actually grab the guitar that I made at the end and play that for us.
And it was so magical to actually to hear what came out of her.
So excited to share it with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
What you guys don't know is in the studio, we have a couple of guitars hanging here, and one of them is a guitar that you guys have probably heard me talk about in the past, which I made last year.
And Akaki walked in and immediately grabbed it off the wall and started playing.
And I'm like, oh, my God, this guitar has never sounded that gorgeous and never will sound that gorgeous again.
So thank you for blessing that instrument right off the bat.