Today we’d like to introduce you to Malachi Ball.
Malachi, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
I’m originally from a smaller town called Temple, Tx. Otherwise known as “Trouble Town” which is what me and other homies of the younger generation call it. I was always musically inclined from birth and I would always sing in the church choir. I was never given any instruments as a child, I just always used my voice as my instrument. I was always the child dancing and bouncing around in the pews during Sunday service and I’d say by the age of 10 I was singing songs during testimony service and loved listening to the choir after offering. There was just something about the energy when everyone harmonized notes that gave me goosebumps. I loved the organ, drums, guitar, bass, just everything that contributed to the music. I even played bongos during service for a few years.
As I got older, I became more of a sportsperson and music was just more of enjoyment then something I saw myself doing in a serious manner. Like most teens, I was very self-aware and nervous about putting myself in the spotlight and never really liked being noticed. I just preferred to be the background even though I knew I had the ability to influence people with music and my voice. Once I got to middle school, I started to learn the trumpet in band and fell in love with a concert in jazz and I began to learn how to read sheet music and compose pieces. I never limited myself when it came to that and even switched and learned the French Horn, Flugelhorn, and Mellophone when the band was short-handed. I started to get more advanced and started learning how to freestyle and improvise chords and notes in jazz bands. My teachers would call them solo sections where you play by yourself with just the bass and drums and showcase your ability to play. That was literally my favorite part of the band.
Throughout high school, I kept advancing and even went with the top jazz band to play in a national competition in Kansas City which we ended up winning. Eventually, though I would start to gravitate back to singing. Particularly during my junior year in 2015 when Bryson Tiller came out with his album ‘Trapsoul’. I used to listen to it so much that to this day, I can literally quote the whole 45-minute album word for word. I would sing it in the hallways walking to class with my headphones in and I started getting stopped by people and they would tell me my voice sounded great, so that started to build my confidence up to sing more and I even got asked to sing in big plays at my school by the head acting teacher. My band teacher even wanted me to sing during certain jazz songs. I’d say that’s when I really started getting recognition for my voice.
After high school, I ended up going to UNT where I would eventually end up meeting hella musically inclined people, being that it is one of the top 10 music schools in the world. I got the courage to start recording the second semester of my freshman year there where me and a couple of homies started recording in dorm halls or study rooms. We would literally stay up all night sometimes and have class the next morning and be exhausted, but I loved it so much. We started getting a good catalog of songs done and I would show them to some of my classmates and people in my dorm hall. They would always ask when I was actually gonna drop music and said they loved it. I started asking myself the same thing as to when would actually start dropping music. I even started posting song covers on Twitter and Instagram where I started getting a lot of love. I also started performing weekly at an event called Poetic Justice on campus at UNT and I’m well known on campus. I get stopped by people all the time that I don’t even know and they compliment me on my voice which drives me to keep singing and making music. I just recently posted my first two songs this year with my first song being named ‘Soda’. That’s basically an in-depth description of my life up until now with music.
Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
It has definitely been somewhat of a struggle. I know many different producers and engineers that I tend to work with. Some of them are my close friends, but it’s just difficult finding time to work with them because they are always busy and most of them are spread across Dallas. Aside from that, I’m just dealing with a lot personally because I’m on my own since I left the house at 18. My family loves that I do music, but they don’t really support that I do R&B/Hip-Hop (worldly music as they call it) since my family is Apostolic Christian in belief which I understand and one of the reasons I left. I still love church and the environment, but I just have a love for the genre of music I make.
What do you do, what do you specialize in, what are you known for, etc. What are you most proud of? What sets you apart from others?
My business is Lache, which is what I go by. Pronounced (Luh-Shay) but most people say (La-Che) which is fine because eventually, people everywhere will know my name. I’m a singer/rapper/composer which is what everyone knows me for first and foremost. I’m also known for my modeling and pictures which is more of a side gig, but I will eventually build that side of my business as well. I’m proud of how serious I’ve become in my craft and the people I’ve impacted with my music so far. People have come up to me and said that I inspired them to pursue their dreams as artists and that means a lot to me because putting yourself out there is not easy. It makes you vulnerable to people and they can take advantage of that. I set myself apart from people because my goal is to own half of Dallas and I want to create my own label called ‘S.A.F.E.’ which stands for ‘Striving Always for Excellence’ and it means exactly what it says because I feel you should always give your all in everything you do. It will give young artists access to studios without having to pay and the ability to learn about the music industry for free. I’ve always felt like I was the one who would carry the burden for others so they don’t have to struggle like me.
If you had to go back in time and start over, would you have done anything differently?
I honestly would have started doing what I do now a lot earlier, been more disciplined with my craft and had my own home studio before I left for college soI would have been ahead of the game.
Contact Info:
- Email: Malibar12345@gmail.com
- Instagram: @lacheeeee.la
- Twitter: @malachelache
- Other: https://song.link/i/1483880099
Image Credit:
Instagram: @skrats_, @troyal__, @nastydaws, @lisamarievisuals
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