Poise is Power. What do I mean by that?
At the core I’m emotionally charged, the “I wear my heart on my sleeve” type of artist. I used to find it hard to cap my emotions on stage…the excitement, nerves, even anger when difficulties presented themselves (The mic cutting out or forgetting a lyric..the usual).
I’d pace the stage like a prisoner waiting for the cell door to be unlocked. I thought ok that’s how it must be done. RAAGEE! ENERGY!
It’s easy to forget the stage you are on in this journey if you spend so much time looking ahead to where you want to be i.e. festival stages and performing for 1000’s of people happy to see you. This is mainly what would charge me on stage almost forcing the energy out of people.
As I grow as an artist, coming into my own, peeling myself away from the influences that guided me up to a point. I’m finding that I enjoy seeing people listen, having them cling on my every word.
My first experience of this was performing at Salemango Festival earlier this year. I pulled a lot of the heavy 808 trap from my set, choosing more rap, jazzy, auto tune joints that require more focus from myself. The room wasn’t jumping instead they were attentive, actively listening to the words instead of just hyping to the beats. I realised the power of my words in that single moment.
It used to be the moshpits and chaos that got me off but I can give so much more. All it took was slowing down sitting and being present with the audience. With myself. Being comfortable enough to sit down on stage. Being comfortable with silence on stage, a pause to breathe or just joke with someone in the crowd after spilling my drink over myself. Just being human and being comfortable in that is Poise, to me.
The audience can feel that, they can see it and I feel that energy washes over my team on stage with me. Being able to treat a 300 capacity venue like the bedroom is Poise. Poise is power.
In conclusion
This will be my 8th year since I started releasing music and performing, the fact I’m only just at this stage now makes me very excited for where this journey will take me. As an artist and a human. Poise is power no need to rush.
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Feel free to watch a recap from my most recent performance at Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds below. If you do please do leave a like and subscribe to join us 🙂
Fellow artists do you have any stories like this? How’s the journey going?
TjTUCKER 
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