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Zach Day was born and raised in Mississippi splitting most of his time between Greenville and Hazlehurst.  He is a self-taught musician, singer, songwriter and businessman.  Zach has completed solo tours in Canada and across the U.S. multiple times and has also performed as a headliner in the Blues Alive Festival in the Czech Republic in 2019.  You can find his album "Mississippi Heat" on all streaming platforms and in three separate independent films produced in Mississippi.

Zach is now living and performing full time in Austin, Texas as a solo act and with his band The Texas Horse Pirates.  Zach Day and The Texas Horse Pirates are making thier mark in the Texas music scene with their highly anticipated new single " Damn Cocaine" to be released Spring 2022.

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Zach Day's 'Y'allternative' Ballads and Big Appalachian Heart

When Zach Day was a teenager, he and his two best friends would regularly skip the school bus to practice singing and playing music.

In the quiet backwoods of Day’s hometown of Stearns in southeastern Kentucky, he said they’d spend their days on porches covering Dolly Parton, Carole King and “all the great women of music.” 

The trio of friends taught each other how to sing better, studying the nuances and small inflections in their voices, even the shape of their mouths while they sang, to perfect their three-part harmonies. 

Though it may have just seemed like another adolescent act of rebellion, for Day, the stories he’d go on to tell as well as his sound would draw their inspiration from those Appalachian woods and the people with which he surrounded himself.

Day, a now 30-year-old singer-songwriter, sits in his apartment in Nashville, Tennessee, which stands two blocks from Music Row, on a cool, misty day in February. A former “The Voice” contestant who has amassed well over one hundred thousand followers across TikTok and Instagram, Day initially moved to Music City in early 2020 after graduating from Eastern Kentucky University a few months prior in 2019. 

“I always knew I was destined to get out of there,” Day recalled of Stearns. “... I always just kind of felt like I was an observer of my surroundings. I never really felt like I fit in and I was more just like watching everything else go on.”

Even so, Day said he still carries a deep affinity for Appalachia.

The son of a nurse and a barber, Day grew up nervous and shy in his hometown but said he took comfort in his family and the small, isolated farm he was raised on. His grandparents — a teacher and an electric company employee — and his aunt were his neighbors, which not only provided Day with a safe place to land but also plenty of examples of hard work in spite of challenges.

“That teaches you something about life, I think, because my family has always been hard-working people,” Day said. “And I feel like there’s sometimes a misconception on people from the South being lazy hillbillies or something like that, and it’s not that at all … We might have been really poor, but we never were wanting for anything, so that was special to me.”

Also of great significance for Day growing up was his family’s aptitude for storytelling. He described each member of his tight-knit family as a storyteller and said that it’s “in my blood.” Day said he thinks listeners can hear that in the music he puts out today.  

Day said his early penchant for stories coincided with his introduction to music. His aunt, a musician herself, acquainted Day with the piano when he was practically a baby. Playing in church on Sundays, she’d sit Day beside her as he experimented with the piano’s keys.

The singer-songwriter continued with piano lessons as he got older, noting two teachers: “Miss Jana,” who Day said could play the instrument “100% by ear” and taught him how to make chords, and “Miss Debbie,” who gave Day lessons for free on account of seeing potential in him.

“I really did have people notice that I had a knack for music, that I enjoyed it and that I could be good at it,” Day said.

But as Day was realizing his talents, he was also recognizing that he was different from some of his peers and facing scrutiny for it.

Day, a gay man, would not come out to his friends and family until he was an adult, but said he encountered homophobia in Stearns before he even knew his sexual orientation.

“It’s never easy for someone raised in the Bible Belt,” Day said. “... I had grown adults telling me like, ‘You’re not allowed to ride in my car because you’re a faggot.’” 

He sought refuge in his friends and in music, singing with them in the woods and in classrooms for his teachers before heading to both Morehead State University and EKU, where Day said he continued to pursue music by participating in jazz and Black gospel ensembles.

At college, “I was really under the wing of different mentors that became huge inspirations for me as well,” Day said.

Motivated by that support, Day spent his last semester at EKU filming season 18 of NBC’s “The Voice” after auditioning for the show in Los Angeles and inspiring judges John Legend and Kelly Clarkson to turn their chairs with a cover of SWV’s “Weak.” 

Day made it to the show’s “battle rounds” with Legend as his coach before his elimination, but said the competition was a “really good experience” and taught him a valuable lesson.

“I learned that being an artist is different than being a singer,” Day said of being on “The Voice.” “Anybody can be a good singer, but not everybody is an artist … which comes with branding yourself, marketing yourself.”

On “The Voice,” Day also came out publicly for the first time, which he said his family took well, and he zeroed in on his folk-pop sound — dubbed by Day as “y’allternative” — after being pushed to market himself as an R&B singer.

“[I’d] been running from this country-alternative, queer person my whole life,” Day said. He explained that while he enjoys R&B and other genres, “what makes me unique [is that] I’m a folk singer at heart.”

Day moved to Nashville “ready to take over the world” as “The Voice” aired, though the COVID-19 pandemic limited his opportunities for some time, prompting him to travel to L.A. two years later and stay there while working with an artist development company.

While with the company, Day said he wrote and recorded 30 songs, though all of those were eventually shelved after labels turned down meetings with him, which Day described as “super traumatizing.” 

This, however, pushed Day to “take my power back,” he said. The singer-songwriter doubled down on his roots and his musical niche, independently releasing story-driven tracks like “Washington” and “New York.”

“I’m just telling my story, and I’m just doing it in a way that feels most authentic to me,” Day said, unconcerned with talks of radio hits or streams.

Still, plenty have taken notice of Day’s distinct voice. His viral TikTok videos, in which he puts a folk twist on popular songs, have garnered attention from names like YEBBA, Brandi Carlile, Paris Hilton and the aforementioned King, he said.

In his apartment, Day stares out the window, smiling. He’s got a new song, “You’re Bored and I Hate It,” due out in March and a slew of live shows already booked for the year. 

“I’m taking everything that I can, I’m not sleeping on it one bit,” Day said. “I’m working so hard.”

The singer-songwriter said he still struggles with continuing to pursue a career as traditionally arduous as music, mentioning that it’d be easy to “take a break” and move to a farm. But Day is not interested in letting his stories and the sounds of his home go unheard anytime soon.

“We have stories to tell, and some of the best musicians and songwriters and singers ever are just buried in the hills of southeastern Kentucky,” Day said. “... At the end of the day, I’m always going to come back to making music … It’s just natural in me.”

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Voyage Austin Magazine : Life & Work with Erick Bohorquez

Today we’d like to introduce you to Erick Bohorquez.

Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started? Where do I start, well I studied music business and Spanish at The University of Texas at Austin and Universidad de Salamanca in Spain. While I was a student at UT, I landed a coveted internship for Elektra/Atlantic Records. That’s where I got my first taste of the business. After I graduated, I moved to LA, where I worked in promotions at Elektra Records. At Elektra we broke artists like Jason Mraz and Jet. Eventually, I moved back to Austin, TX where I landed the role as Regional Manager of Marketing and Promotions at Island/Def Jam Records, where I was the go-to person for managing Universal Music Group artists. At Def Jam, we took Rihanna’s “SOS”, Ne-Yo’s “So Sick,” and Mariah Carey’s “Don’t Forget About Us” to #1 . My love for music is what got me to where I am today. I purchased my first guitar when I turned 15, but I remember being drawn to the sounds of the guitar when I was only five years old. I taught myself how to play and eventually, in the summer of 2006 I began playing club shows with a reggae dub band called Don Chani. Throughout my 10+ years performing with the band, I was lucky to have opened shows for The Wailers, Ziggy Marely, Lee Scratch Perry, Yellowman, Culture, Pepper, The Skatalites, Luciano, and many more.

In 2014, I co-founded Colombian funk group Superfónicos. Some of the best times of my life have been playing with the band. I have been super fortunate to check so many memorable accomplishments off my personal bucket list – like performing at Austin City Limits Festival and becoming a member of the Recording Academy’s Texas Chapter. When I wasn’t playing gigs, I was working full time as a music programmer curating playlist for major brands like Footlocker, Hard Rock Hotels, McDonalds and Macy’s. I am most recently advising companies on experiential programs and marketing strategies to help build brand engagement and loyalty. I have also been having a ton of fun creating jingles for brands.

I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road? I’ve definitely had my fair share of some bumps along the way. I would say that when pursuing nearly all of my goals, I’ve been met with some form of rejection. Despite the hundreds, if not thousands, I have had some memorable “yes’s” along the way. I’ve never needed much affirmation to keep me dreaming big. My creativity is the cornerstone to my success – any time I hit a roadblock, I am inspired to find a new approach or change old patterns until I accomplish my goal.. One of the hardest struggles for me was losing my father when I was a sophomore in college. That experience made me grow up a little faster. However, I will say that that experience gave a different view on life, and I think was for the better.

As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do? I’ve been knee-deep in the music industry for well over 18 years now with personal experience not only as a musician, but the business side as well. My professional experience ranges from music programming, talent marketing and promotion, artist management, to show advancement. I’m very proud to have co-founded the Colombian funk band Superfonicos and all the success we’ve had so far. We’ve had a chance to record with some amazing producers like Jim Eno of Spoon, Grammy winners Adrian Quesada’s Electric Deluxe Studio (Black Pumas), and Beto Martinez’s Leche House Studio (Grupo Fantasma, Brownout, Money Chicha). We’ve also been featured on Billboard, Rolling Stone, NPR, KCRW’s Pan Caliente and many more. I think I felt most proud when accepting a $20,000 grant from Black Fret on the Moody Theater stage. For me, it was a culmination of all the hard work we had put in up until that point. That was a sweet moment. I think what sets me apart is that I have a multi-faceted view of the music business. I know what it’s like to be a musician and everything that comes with it or without… i.e. money… haha I also understand the business side of artist development and promotion having worked for companies like Warner and Universal Music Group.

What were you like growing up? Growing up I was a silly little kid. Always getting into something and lucky I made it out alive now looking back. I’ve loved music since I was a wee lad though. I would watch MTV for hours on end. It started with my father who played the organ. He also had a fantastic vinyl collection, so there was music always playing in the house. If you were to see me at age five you’d see me running around the house with a plastic guitar trying to rock out.

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Inspiring conversations with zach weismann of the impactful.

Thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started? For the past 15 years, I’ve dedicated my career to fighting and combating climate change through a multitude of sectors and projects.

I began my career in accounting & finance and quickly transitioned to dedicate the rest of my career to climate change.

Alright, let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall, and if not, what challenges have you had to overcome? It definitely has had its ups and downs. I think the biggest challenge for me and many others in climate space is that science, news, technology, and other challenges continue to mount, change, grow, and evolve.

What was seen as the “best” thing you could be doing 15 years ago may not hold true today. What are some hot topics like carbon removal now? It was not even a field or thing back then. It just goes to show how rapidly the space has changed and evolved – both for better and for worse.

One of the ways it has become harder is that our current climate state, the projections of deforestation, species loss, carbon in the atmosphere, and unmitigated climate change have continued to get worse and worse. Balancing doing good work with feeling like it is “enough” or that it “matters” is a constant challenge I and many others continue to face.

Great, so let’s talk business. Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others? The Impactful is a global community and agency. We have over 100 members from around the world who collaborate, share resources, and team up to provide services to businesses. Services include creative services as well as carbon and climate strategy.

What sets us apart from others is our ecosystem of talent and our ability to flexibly and affordably meet our client’s needs.

Brand-wise, I’m most proud of our commitment to the cause and our standing firm with who we work. Not to mention the global community and bringing people doing good work from over 15 countries together.

Can you tell us more about what you were like growing up? Personality-wise, I was definitely more reserved than I am today. I am told I was sweet and funny but not too wild and crazy. My family was really close, and we spent a ton of time together, and I spent a lot of time with my older brother.

Interest-wise, growing up, it was all about basketball. I followed basketball, played basketball, and was obsessed with Shaquille O’Neal. My passion and interest in basketball allowed me to play in high school and in college for 4 years.

Looking back, that was a highlight but also incredibly time-consuming for me AND my parents driving me to all these tournaments and games, ha!

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Arkhangelsk Oblast

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• 6.2 By train
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• 12 Stay safe

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Arkhangelsk Oblast is a region in northwestern Russia , which borders Karelia to the west, the White Sea to the north, Nenetsia to the northeast, Komi Republic to the east, Kirov Oblast to the southeast, and Vologda Oblast to the south.

Mainland Arkhangelsk Oblast can be divided into 3 parts from north to south:

• Northern part - the White Sea coast and Northern Dvina's delta. Home to biggest cities ( Arkhangelsk and Severodvinsk ), but less populated in rural areas outside the delta.
• Middle part - the less populated part, with worst roads, a gap between North and South. Plesetsk Cosmodrome is located there.
• Southern part - agricultural and more populated part with an array of old towns, as Kargopol , Velsk , Solvychegodsk , and Kotlas .

Also the Franz Josef Land far north in the Arctic Sea and Novaya Zemlya , halfway there, are part of the Oblast.

• 64.55 40.533333 1 Arkhangelsk — the region's capital, chief sea port of medieval Russia, which houses Europe's largest museum of wooden architecture (Malye Korely). Claims to be the cultural capital of Russian North.
• 64.566667 39.85 3 Severodvinsk — the second-largest city in the Oblast, 35   km from Arkhangelsk, at the White Sea coast. Home to the military Russian Northern Fleet and a principal submarine base and construction site.
• 61.5 38.933333 4 Kargopol — a 1000-year-old town in the south-west of the region, near Kenozersky National Park , notorious for sasquatch/bigfoot sightings
• 61.25 46.65 6 Kotlas — an important rail junction in the region's southeast, transit point to Veliky Ustyug .

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