Christened Matthew Harris-Hercules with stage the name Hercules, I was born and raised in Cambridge England but recently moved to Birmingham to pursue my music career. I played soccer for the majority of my life but have always been surrounded by music as It was infused within my home from a very young age, from the age of 11, I was fortunate enough to learn to play the violin and piano and have recently taken to learning the guitar, for as long as I can remember I have always been writing music and drafting lyrics.
Since the age of 17 when I first experience the entertainment industry, I have been fully invested my passion started out when I was playing football in college and I had struggled expressing myself I turned to music as I felt it was my way of opening up to who I wanted to be as an artist. Discovering the journey I needed to take as an artist has been the hardest experience of all as I have had to delve into my once neglected family roots. I have Nigerian / Jamaican heritage but never had the interest to learn about this until now and I’m curious and excited to dig deeper and incorporate my findings into my songs.
I have just recently dropped my music video for my latest single Dreams and am focussed on the next song release.
It was at the age of 19 that I dedicated myself to homing my craft and putting my everything into music even though I had been doing music from earlier on it was at this stage in my life I fully committed and knew this was the journey in life I wanted to take due to my life experiences
I feel as an artist I look towards artists like Rema what he’s achieved at the age he is and make me more ambitious to peruse my dream likewise I also get influenced by Burna boy as his graft to the top has been well documented and can only be seen as a testimony to never give up
I feel the Nigerian afrobeat culture is becoming westernised as the industry grows and becomes more and more appreciated and explored I believe it’s becoming a more universal genre.
I grew up in a single-parent household and have always had the love and support from
my mum as if it was from two parents has continually encouraged me to keep chasing my dream and has always been supportive of my passion and has always told me Im meant for something special, so I strive to make her prophecy come to fruition.
I believe COVID has benefited my craft greatly, I believe due to COVID I know more about myself as an artist and COVID had led me down the path I was always meant to be on, only from COVID was I able to not only get a deeper connection with music but understand myself more as a person, from COVID my team that surrounds me every day now were formed.
Yes I am partnered with the record label called Zela records this is a family label who are supporting me on my journey
My dream collaborations are with Victony and Davido. International wise, deno, polo g and da baby
In the western world, afrobeats is growing every day including the festivals and it’s starting to stand out even on a distribution platform when you are distributing a song it’s getting normalised to have a label for afrobeats and connections to afrobeat.
If I wasn’t doing music I think I would be at a stage in my life of pure confusion as music was there when I had no other form of expression I can not imagine a life without music.
I would advise people to keep an open mind stay laser-focused and believe surround yourself with people who also have the same passion and bring positivity to you.
Link to his latest Flick On Youtube: https://youtu.be/kyHy37kP9A4
