Troy Sexton: How To Get In Sync With The Rhythm Of Your Artist

What does your creative process look like?

Do you listen to certain genres of music to get your creative juices running? Do you collaborate with other artists to help you drill drown on what you want to achieve with your art?

Joining us this week is Performer/Drummer, Troy Sexton, who will share his own journey in fine tuning his creative process. He inspires us to be authentic and persevere despite the different roadblocks that we may face as artists. He also reiterates that we need people that we trust to mentor and help us become better artists. The great thing about art is that it’s malleable, you don’t have to figure everything today! Enjoy the process and you do you!

In this episode:

How attending Les Miserables and Stomp influenced Troy’s passion to perform at an early age
Troy’s amazing journey from being a huge fan of the musical group “Stomp” to eventually travelling the world with them as an international entertainer.
How Troy used the rejection he faced during his first audition as fuel to strengthen his skills as an artist.
There’s a lot of different types of kids in jail; but, when they start learning to play music together, all of their criminal records go out the window and they’re just kids having fun.

by Chelsea Johnson | Cue to Cue

A little about Troy:

Troy is a Canadian drummer and international entertainer, workshop teacher, speaker and performer.
Troy started performing in the broadway show STOMP at age 19, after traveling the world, for 10 years, he set roots in Canada and started Rhythm Works, doin drum and dance workshops and performances. Rhythm works has been in over 500 schools across Canada, we have performed coast to coast and you were able to see Troy performing at Toronto Raptors games leading the drumming group “the 6ix stix” . from 2015-2022. Troy worked with non profit Bue print pathways, working in 6 youth prisons for 6 years. teaching and putting on shows with he kids. also has taught in over 20 Arctic and native reserves. Troy also works on movie sets and a assistant director and does voice over work for tv and film.

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