With a powerful falsetto and a knack for tender, soulful storytelling, Q Marsden is well on his way to capturing the hearts and minds of a generation. Q was five years old when he started recording music. Raised by musician parents, the 22-yearold singer-songwriter from Pembroke Pines, Florida fondly remembers laying his first track down in studios his father brought him to in Jamaica. Despite his early foundations in music, Q was never taught how to play the piano, guitar, and drums that grace his stirring, melodic songs. “I would listen to it and try to play it piece by piece,” Q explains about teaching himself to play the keys by ear and using classic Mozart as a guide. Soon enough he was programming beats into his mother’s Triton keyboard. When he heard Drake’s 2013 album Nothing Was The Same, Q was inspired to make production his focus, and even sold a guitar he had bought in order to get the computer equipment he needed to strengthen his sound. “My music now has no resemblance to Forest Green or even Thoughts,” Q says about the evolution of his sound in the more recent critically acclaimed self-produced & written project The Shave Experiment. He’s in a different place now, and so naturally, the music is different. As he gears up to release even more music, Q wants to focus on his message: “Evolve, change and give hope, nothing more and nothing less,” he says. 18+ Presented by Link Miami Rebels. This is an 18+ event