The Story of Saxsquatch

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We have Sting not his real name and Prince was not his real name. Up next you're going to hear a story about Sasquatch. You can go anywhere on the internet or YouTube or TikTok and see videos of a saxophone playing Sasquatch. Here is the story behind the story of the man and the legend, Saxquatch. I'm the artist Saxquatch and I was given that name pretty early on when I fell in love with the saxophone and I was just completely obsessed with it.

People called me Saxquatch and it's definitely stuck. I do come from a musical family. My grandfather was a musician.

His name was Gig Foot with a G and my sister was Big Flute and so I always was tinkering on the instruments. I always loved music because it just made life more tolerable for me and for a long time I was kind of an artist's artist so I would kind of play things that other musicians would like and then as I've kind of evolved to wanting to connect with people more I've kind of brought in my music to other things. I have to say most of my family has believed in me from the beginning even though they were originally a little bit cautious about me sort of coming out of the woods. I eventually convinced them that it's something that I really wanted to do and they were like all right let's do it and it's been an incredible journey. You know it really feels good to be believed in. You know and so part of my message is just trying to connect with people and spread that belief back. Let people know that they're not alone so I'm kind of perpetuating that into the future and trying to spread the love. So I was playing in an internationally recognized band for a while and I also was just starting to figure out the Saxquatch persona and you know I never really intended on it being kind of my full-time job if you will and so one day I was just thinking you know all of this traveling that I was doing I wasn't exactly getting what I needed which was to be able to write my own music and produce my own music and I thought you know what I just kind of connected the dots one one night it was laid on my couch I think my power was out I had some lit candles and it was two in the morning and I thought to myself I can just do Saxquatch and write my own music so I did I ran it by my family and friends they were like hey I don't think you should do this you know it's a pretty low chance that you're ever going to be on your own doing well as a sax player. Sax players don't exactly rise to fame in and of themselves anymore in this day and age and I thought about it I wrote a pros and cons list as I was suggested to do and when I looked at the list I was just like I gotta do it I gotta do it because the rewards were too good for me not to go after you know creative freedom is one of those things that as an artist I wouldn't be able to live without if I were to go down the street and see someone even on the street making music sounding beautiful writing their own songs it would kill me inside to know that that wasn't me that I wasn't doing that so believe it or not when I started off um right when I started off people kind of hated it you know people kind of hated sax squad you know my close friends were like hey um what are you doing and when it started to gain some traction is when people were really like oh yeah I like this now that was a little bit interesting to see people like what other people like you know it's kind of a phenomenon looking back I'm really grateful that I took that extremely risky leap now I am doing tours of my own music I'm getting millions of views on TikTok I've had songs come out with John Oates from Holland Oates with Billy Ray Cyrus and I've done music for the game Rocket League and Fortnite you know when I first started I had kind of two goals that I was like I'm gonna shoot for the moon and that was to be on Jimmy Fallon and to play the Super Bowl and I did go on Jimmy Fallon's show and it was amazing um so next stop I want to play the Super Bowl one day and a great job on the production editing and storytelling by our own Monty Montgomery and Reagan Habib and what a story just about living your own version of the American dream and wanting to be my goodness a sax player and making a living at it and we're going to go out with some of the music from Saxquatch here on Our American Stories. 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