Meet FlyhighMarty

What’s your name and where are you from? My legal name is Kris, my moniker is FlyHighMarty my name came from a friend of mine who is no longer with us, taken from us by the police. I want his name to live with me, that he is never forgotten. I’m from the Windy City, Born in Chicago University Hospital, originally a north sider but we moved down south when I was five. After that I kind of moved around a lot stayed in a couple other cities and states. I’ve lived in Vegas, I’ve been to Texas, but my soul is still in Chicago no matter how far I move. Why do you love what you do? The rhythm of music speaks to me, I feel like I have a spirit and it becomes more in tune and focused when making or listening to music. No matter how many times I attempted to look away I keep coming back to music, each time I would take a break, someone is asking for a beat or even made a song to one of my beats. I promised myself that I wouldn’t look back no matter how hard the fight gets. I want to wake up and do what I love for a living. What makes you different? Probably because of what I said before, I feel like it’s part of me, it’s been calling out to me for years. I’ve been through so many computers, so much money spent, it would be foolish to stop. I’m a weirdo in my own right, but I’m also the coolest person you’ll know. Where do you see yourself in 5 years? Hope that I would be in a position where I can give back to my community, help out those who don’t have that chance, I want to have my own music group. Help develop the next generation of music, branch out to other ideas, and truly make art. What do you want to accomplish in life? I want to create generational wealth, I want to make a difference, not sure where exactly, but I try to make a difference as much as I can. I’ve experienced and been through so much, I need the world to feel it, pass down my knowledge to those after me, keep our names alive, create history. What do you bring to your industry? Insight, knowledge, innovation, someone who they haven’t seen before. I want to create for the future. I want to be involved in as many things as I can, learn as much as I can, so that I may help those around me. Whoever I’m with, what ever organization I’m with, if it’s mine or someone else’s, I’m going to give it my all, I already have insomnia, so I need more to do. What do you want to be remembered by? most importantly my family, those who’ve I’ve come across and changed for the better. I want to be remembered as a leader. I’ve seen a lot and done a lot, my days in the military affected me and my future, I have not given up my dream despite what I’ve been through. I’m only a producer so I don’t want all the glory, I want to have some of the coldest songs in memory, I want my grandkids to say my music is trash only because they listen to different music in their generation, at least my songs are out there, the artists I work with will have something to always looks back on. I want to achieve and do much more.