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Tyrone Johnson of Raleigh on Life, Lessons & Legacy

Tyrone Johnson shared their story and experiences with us recently and you can find our conversation below.

Hi Tyrone, thank you so much for taking time out of your busy day to share your story, experiences and insights with our readers. Let’s jump right in with an interesting one: When was the last time you felt true joy?
I naturally find joy in everything but the past 2-3 years I’ve been working on creating ChocMuzic fest just to celebrate music and my growing DJ business. This past June I was able to finalize a location and date for my first festival and that was a euphoric joy I can’t explain. Not only am I doing a festival but it’s to help the community.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My name is Tyrone but I go by T-Y. I’m an artist that have traveled to many city’s across America and with that gained new followers and supporters all over the world. As I’ve evolved in music I’ve started also added DJing at different venues and events just to get more into music. As of September this year I would be celebrating 8 years of DJing and so I decided to celebrate both my music and DJing by headlining organizing my first ChocMuzic fest. My DJ company consists of two DJ who love all types of music we call ourselves ChocMuzic we’re duel DJ company. My first love of music was dance when I was younger then it was song writing then started to sing songs around my friends and they said that I sounded good so I just kept working at it and now I’m a all around artist and performer plus DJ. Something that makes me unique is when I was younger I was to myself most of the time didn’t have many friends until I got more into my early adulthood when I surrounded myself with music. My music influences are Michael Jackson, Usher, Chris Brown, all of the pop band of 2000s, Bruno Mars, Chris Stapleton, R. Kelly the list goes on.

Appreciate your sharing that. Let’s talk about your life, growing up and some of topics and learnings around that. What was your earliest memory of feeling powerful?
I was always to myself unless you knew me and a high school friend of mine was in charge of the pep rally and knew I could dance really good. So she asked me to be out class rep me and one other girl. I told her to play Chris Brown run it and I’ll put a dance with it. The day of the pep rally they called me to the gym floor people knew of me but not really good. The song played and everyone started dancing and when they saw my dance moves the entire gym was screamed the entire performance. After that I was the man everyone students and teachers and administrators was talking about how good it was until the day I graduated. That was the first time feeling powerful.

If you could say one kind thing to your younger self, what would it be?
Don’t try to be anyone but yourself they are going to love you for being you when you get older.

Alright, so if you are open to it, let’s explore some philosophical questions that touch on your values and worldview. What are the biggest lies your industry tells itself?
You have to be the best to be successful, when it’s not the talent that measured success but it’s working hard and showing people that your working hard makes you successful.

Okay, so before we go, let’s tackle one more area. What do you think people will most misunderstand about your legacy?
Most people won’t understand the reason behind why a lot of doors was closed or never opened for me but when doors have opened it was golden for myself and those who opened the door.

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