Misfit Tunes The Magazine September 2014 | Page 31

What better way to introduce
you to Misfit Tunes than
to interview the CEO and
Founder Ki Da Misfit.
Here’s a short interview to
get you better acquainted….

I connected to it, the way it
made me feel. Asking me to
pick a song is like asking a
parent to pick their favorite
child.

MT: So can you pick 5 artMisfit Tunes: Where did you ists that you can say are your
grow up?
favorite?
Ki Da Misfit: I grew up in
Ki: Nina Simone is very
Southeast DC. Barry Farms
high on that list. I really like
to be exact and later off Mar- Led Zeppelin. Jay-Z and Lil
tin Luther King Jr Ave.
Wayne are both big motivators for me. It’s really hard to
MT: What started your love
narrow it down….Phil Colfor music?
lins, The Police, it’s so many
Ki: Well my uncle Gary was
artists that I love and apprea DJ and my mom was really ciate for different reasons. I
into music. She always had
could go on for years with this
a lot of records and kept the
list! Those are the artists that
record player going. It was al- I would definitely want to take
ways music in my house and I to a deserted island with me.
just fell into the music and fell
in love. It was a connection
MT: What prompted you to
I had to it, and since I was an start Misfit Tunes?
only child, music became my Ki: Well, I was looking for
best friend. Wherever I was,
something outside of the Top
whatever I was doing, music
40 hits. I wanted to hear good
was always involved.
music from everywhere. It’s
my infatuation with and love
MT: What was the first song
for music. And it just seems
that really made you appreci- like the music industry is so
ate music?
saturated with droids and
Ki: It’s really hard to pick an duplicates that I felt like if no
individual song that I can say one helped the independent
turned me on to music. There artist get a leg up, then they
were a lot of artists that I got
would remain underground
into very early like Phil Colsuperstars and the truth is
lins, Natalie Cole, The Barthat the industry needs them.
cays. My mom played a lot
Everyone sounds and looks
of music and my grandmother so much alike that I’m not as
kept the radio on so it was just excited and interested in the
music in general. The way
Top 40 as I once was. But I

do get excited about a lot of
the underground artists and
musicians I’ve found on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and
Sound Cloud. It’s something
new and fresh and their appreciation for the music coupled
with their hunger for music
is very refreshing. I just put
their hunger for music together with my love for music
and desire to help people and
Misfit Tunes was born.
MT: Why do you want to
help people and you’re not
looking for anything in return?
Ki: I’ve never been one to do
something to get something in
return. What I get out of this
is the chance to hear all of this
great music. I get music sent
to me daily and I sit in awe
and wonder why they haven’t
been signed to a major label.
That’s what I get out of it. As
far as finances, you can’t do
what you love and always expect financial compensation.
Getting paid is a bonus, it’s
the cherry on top that I don’t
necessarily need to have.
When it comes, I definitely
appreciate it, but I don’t go
into a situation LOOKING for
the money. A lot of these artists are struggling themselves
trying to put food on their
families tables. Blessings
flow freely when you give and
do from the heart.
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