Jon White and Cole Walowac met at their church when they were young and began playing music together as teenagers. Now, the duo known as Capital Kings is making people dance all over the country. We talked with Walowac about starting off in the industry and bringing a new sound to gospel music.
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO ABOUT THE TOUR? I’m excited to go out with LeCrae, Skillet and Toby. I’m such a huge fan of LeCrae’s music. We have a couple new surprises of what we’re going to do live and I think people will really love it. WHEN SOMEONE GOES TO SEE YOU LIVE, WHAT CAN THEY EXPECT? A high energy show with fun music. Our thing has always been that we love loud and high energy music that says something. We like to connect with people and when they leave the concert, they have something to think about.
YOU COLLABORATE WITH A FEW DIFFERENT VOCALISTS ON YOUR SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM. WAS IT A STRUGGLE GETTING YOUR TYPE OF MUSIC WHAT’S IT LIKE TO WORK WITH ARTISTS FROM OTHER MADE IN A GENRE THAT DOESN’T HAVE MUCH GENRES? ELECTRONIC MUSIC? It’s probably my favorite part when it comes Coming into it, really knew there wasn’t a scene for to putting a record together. A big part of it is this. We’ve been the type of guys who wanted to do collaboration; having a producer make their track and something completely different. As far as making the then finding the right singer for that song. We really music, we produced it ourselves, but getting it out love those people who were featured on our songs. to people was hard. Not having a song on the radio, Finding the right voice that fits the song is important there aren’t many avenues to go down if you’re left and I think it was really special the way it turned out. of center. We’ve been trying to figure out ways to get out there and guys like Toby Mac have really helped WHAT DREAMS DO YOU HAVE FOR YOUR CAREER? us out and shared us with their fanbase. Whether we are doing this in 20 years or it ends tomorrow, I just want to inspire people, give them WHAT’S BEEN THE BIGGEST SURPRISE OF ENTERING something that’s real and that they can connect with THE INDUSTRY? in every day life. I just want my music to be good and People don’t realize how much time you spend share some of my stories with people. on the road. They think you just wake up, hang out and play a show. But we have events all day long. The www.capitalkingsmusic.com amount of time that goes into a show and a tour has been a surprise to me. WHAT’S NEXT? We are working on our second album. We have a lot of cool songs we are excited about and after our summer tour, we are going on the Neon Steeple tour with David Crowder on the fall.
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