How was it going into the studio? What brought about
the name Voices for this?
kishon: Yeah, yeah. Voices, when I was walking on
Voices and writing Voices during the time in my life
where I was feeling a lot of pressure just from all of
my responsibilities. At a certain point in my life, I was
trying to work and make this music thing pop. I seen
a lot of fruit. There was that. There’s the fact that I’m
a husband, I’m a father. I work a full time job. At the
moment, I was in grad school. On top of that, my stepfather, who is like a father figure in my life had just
passed away the year before. Now, I’m the oldest of 5
brothers and I got all these younger siblings. I got my
mom, and everybody’s falling apart.
Since a kid, I’ve always been the person
looked to to do things. To accomplish things that
people would consider to be great. You know what I’m
saying? I’m one of my only cousins that even graduated from high school. I was always the good kid, the
golden child. All of these other things. I never went to
jail. I never got caught up in a lot of the gang violence.
I got to do all of these things. I had a kid after I got
married, and all of these signs that people said, oh,
Kishon’s this and Kishon’s that. I got praised on those
levels. It just started to wear me down, feeling like I
had to uphold the expectations that everybody held
on me.
Voices is about all of the voices that I hear
speaking into my life, whether it be imposing truths
or just imposing their expectations on me. Just the
feeling of weight that comes from knowing you can’t
hold all of those things up. That’s where the project
is sonically, and Golden is just about my attempt to
... going through this process, like going and experiencing this weight is a process. It’s a journey from
self dependence to realizing you can only be as good
as the strength you allow God to place in you. Just
understanding that your fullness lies in the fact that
God loves you, and you are in him no matter what. For
me, that’s where I was. Golden is kind of like a microscopic look at what it looks like to have a little bit of
provider and self dependence.
When you look, when you step back and say
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