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ʼAngelo Garza, aka (Sauce.k), has been writing down lyrics and creating music since he was elementary school.
back. I eventually made a beat that he worked on. We released a single and I got noticed for my beat,” says Garza.
“I grew up around music. My grandpa used to show me videos of him performing in bands as a teenager. That inspired me to pursue music but instead of rock and roll or country and jazz I wanted to do hip hop,” says Garza.
Garza and Izzy released a single on Spotify, “You Want,” and in less than a week it hit 10,000 plays.
In middle school Garza got into melodies and beats. As a freshman in high school he started producing music until halfway through senior year when he decided to try his hand at hip hop and rapping. “Friends, family and teachers were hearing my melodies and beats I produced and would ask, ʻHave you ever tried rapping?ʼ I didnʼt believe I was good enough for it, but they believed in me. My girlfriend walked in and heard me rapping one day and she encouraged me to try.” Garza started from scratch with production equipment. Without a studio, he set up shop in his room, purchasing everything online from Amazon and keeping all the equipment in his room.
“We had support from the Netherlands right away. Over there they listen to all kinds of things. English rap over there is the second most popular genre. That motivated me to keep going.” Itʼs not only the Netherlands that took notice. “50 Cent reached out to me in messages on Instagram and posted me on his website. Iʼve also had a couple magazine articles in New York with other bigger artists,” says Garza. Garza then produced two more singles with his cousin and friends who also produce. Those songs are “Bad Habits,” and “No Idea.” He released an album on SoundCloud September 9. Releasing on all platforms shortly after.
To get his music out there Garza shared the music he produced on his Instagram page, posting videos of his music when an unlikely connection happened.
“SoundCloud is a non-profit music site. You put your music on there and see how many plays it gets. If it does well I release it on all platforms,” says Garza. “Artists have to manually put it on there. We have to make the link, design the album cover.”
“A Netherlands producer, Izzy Belabid, heard a beat of mine he liked on my Instagram. We were teaching each other and giving each other feed-
Garza partnered with Samuel Hammer, a junior at Greeley Central High School, to produce the album, “Bad Habits.” The album got 60,000 lis-
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BEST OF GREELEY 2020
SAUCE.K WON ONE BEST OF GREELEY CATEGORY: • BEST MUSICIAN
INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT: www.instagram.com/sauce_k18/ @Sauce_k18
Listen on Spotify: Sauce.K Over 2,400 Monthly Listeners 1st Single “You Want” has officially surpassed over 90,000 streams across all platforms as of 9/1/20.
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