Channel Tres started his music career early, playing drums in church when he was five years old. In a recent interview he told music critic Brett Callwood that he was soon doing talent shows in elementary school, “and then I made my first beats at like 12. I fell in love with producing, and then it was something I did on and off throughout high school, but when I turned 18, I took it more seriously. I started honing in on it, at my school, as a producer. When I turned 20, I went to college to study music. I started making a bunch of stuff. Once I left college, I moved back to L.A. and started working, producing for different artists. In about 2018, I put out my first official song as Channel Tres, and then that’s when I really started getting serious as an artist.”
Now, with his blend of house and hip-hop and armed with the recent singles “Acid in My Blood” and “Ganzfeld Experiment,” Tres is looking to become the latest in that illustrious line of talented souls that have gotten their start in Compton and then kept right on rising.
The rapper also told Callwood that his name is a reference to “channel three,” the location reserved for video games on the young artist’s TV. “Channel Tres is something I made up because we used to play the PlayStation and video games, and we had to plug it up to channel three,” he says. “That kinda represented to me tapping into another world or a different thing that we’re normally programmed to. Three has always been a number of significance in my life. I love triangles, I love trio bands. It’s a symbol I see when I feel like angels are talking to me.”
Click here for the full interview and a sampler of Channel Tres’ videos. —VV editors
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