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Artist
DistantStarr
12+ albums
Phillyunderground hip-hopYBMUSIChip hopUK hip-hop
about
Before the days of compasses, Google MapQuest and Al Rocker, the Ancients would search for direction through evaluating luminous balls of plasma. The Greeks would predict the weather by analyzing the setting of fixed stars. In the late 1800s it was the Big Dipper and the North Star that brought hundreds of American slaves to freedom. In modern society, we constantly keep an eye on “superstars” to discover what’s next on the pop-culture horizon. Nowadays, we follow personality and fame, in hopes of a blueprint to create a brighter day. In February 1983, in New York City’s Beth Israel Hospital, a star was born and he would soon create forms of audio freedom while changing the direction of music, sound and film. Donnell Michael Jones didn’t realize his power until he heard a beat that he could walk to and a drum pattern that inspired him to make his sunny-day forecast, a reality. Spike Lee movies, Sun-Ra, De La Soul, Bootsie Collins, Jimi Hendrix, Madlib and comic books became his seven stars, aligned to guide him into his lifelong passion. Jones better known as “DistantStarr” grew up in the Big Apple, surrounded by technology, track and art. The alto saxophone was his “weapon of choice” while hip-hop culture surrounded him like mother bears to their cubs. With a father who connected with the intention of the culture and its creative approach and a mother who couldn’t stand the sound, Starr was exposed to hip-hop and R&B, soul and jazz, traditional and non-traditional art – w
