![]() Earlier this year, he was the youngest person on NoCo Style magazine's 30 Under 30 list. He won 105.5 FM's Listeners' Choice Award, and was named one of the top eight musicians under 22 in 2021 by Sonic Spotlight, a northern Colorado music showcase and competition. In 2020, Garza became the first hip-hop artist to win the Greeley Tribune's Best Musician of Greeley award, and took the title again in 2021. Once he had been showcased in the likes of The Hype magazine and XXL, radio stations, blogs and magazines in Colorado began to take notice. No one really knew me here, and then I got a bunch of publicity in a short amount of time from that one song." ![]() I was like, 'Is this legit?' I didn't expect that to happen. "Journalists from New York, Chicago, Texas, California were getting ahold of me. Like, damn, why didn't I drop music sooner?" says Garza. I was so excited that it really motivated me. He put me on their website, and from there I just took off. "50 Cent's manager reached out to me on Instagram, saying that he wanted me to be in this article where 50 Cent was picking out an artist from every state to promote. ![]() The song caught the eye of one particular rap legend, whose approval launched Garza into the public eye. "You Want" blew up in the Netherlands, where English-language rap is popular. We should try and make a track together.' He was like, 'You should try rapping.' So we collaborated on a song called 'You Want,' and within a week, it got like 10,000 listens on Spotify." "We connected like that," Garza says, "and then when I was nineteen, I was like, 'Hey, bro, we've been producing beats for a long time. Belabid, a native of the Netherlands who had been producing since he was nine, reached out to Garza over social media in 2016 to share beats. His friend and collaborator Izzy Belabid was the one who eventually convinced Garza to record his own vocals. He began producing music at sixteen, but it took another few years for him to build up the nerve to start rapping the lyrics he wrote. Garza got the last laugh: He's since won numerous awards for his music, has been showcased on several national hip-hop blogs, recently released his first album, 88, and has a deluxe version on the way. "He said, 'Put your emotions in a song, and then if you have people who deal with the same issues as you, they'll understand you and connect with you.' So that's what I did, and I started taking it more seriously." Davis would tell me all the time, 'Mental health is a serious thing, no matter what age you are.' Mental health is something that a lot of people can't really deal with alone, so he said music is a good way to cope with that," Garza says. "I always got negative feedback, and I had anxiety, so it took a lot of courage to even ask someone, just to get shut down."īut Garza, now 22, had teachers who encouraged him to pursue his passion for music despite the taunting. ![]() "I would ask kids my age, 'Hey, what do you think of this?,' and right off the bat, it was just so negative," he recalls. When he was growing up in Greeley, his fellow students teased him for his efforts to make music, bombarding him with negativity anytime he tried to share his lyrics or beats. D'Angelo Garza, who goes by the stage name Sauce.K, has been writing lyrics since he was in the fourth grade. ![]()
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