{"id":31044,"date":"2014-06-06T11:50:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T11:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=31044"},"modified":"2016-09-22T14:27:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:27:29","slug":"profile-osunlade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2014\/06\/06\/profile-osunlade\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile: Osunlade"},"content":{"rendered":"

We talk first date with a piano aged seven and never loosing sight of what he creates with one of the most prolific house music producers on the planet, Osunlade<\/p>\n

\"Osunlade<\/a><\/p>\n

Born and raised in St Louis, Missouri at the merge of the sixties and seventies, Osunlade has near on been perfecting the art of mixing and making music for most of his life \u201cMy first musical experiences were actually of my djing for my parents during their weekly card games. They would stand me in a chair and place all the 45\u2019s near the component set and I\u2019d select music while they played cards,\u201d he says. \u201c[My] Mom was a huge Aretha fan, while Dad was all about James Brown.\u201d But it was at the age of seven, when he began playing the piano that Osunlade really started to engage with his craft.<\/p>\n

\"Osunlade<\/a>Osunlade, age 7<\/em><\/p>\n

Moving to LA at the age of seventeen, although he had had a few fairly successful years making music for television Osunlade decided it wasn\u2019t for him. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a critical moment in my career at all. There was no scene in LA, it was all music biz,\u201d he explains. \u201cNothing about Hollywood is about art or music or art. It\u2019s about the parody of it all, how famous one can be.\u201d Although he hated LA with a passion, he knew it was the place to be for that much needed lucky break. \u201cIf anything the dislike of the business side made me more passionate as I was clear that it wasn\u2019t the road I wanted to take,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n