Krystoph Deveaux remembers receiving a trumpet for his birthday/Christmas gift early in his life. At the time, neither he nor his parents realized that years later that gift would spawn a love for music and that Deveaux would seek to pursue a degree in music. He opts out of sharing his long-term goal, but said it is a music business idea.
“I will help to raise the standard of music in The Bahamas, especially jazz, and specifically for the amount of talented people that are in this country. I want to be one of the people who help to push the younger generation of upcoming musicians to strive to be better, so we will be able to compete internationally.”
Deveaux, 24, said he wants to help create a music industry and be able to provide recordings that can compete on an international market.
“I wish to help create a jazz program at the University of The Bahamas, and to help the current music program to grow. I desire help to create spaces for trained musicians to thrive and be able to make a living doing something that they want to do.”
Deveaux’s goal is to ultimately bring light to what jazz music actually is, and to create a bigger and stronger jazz community in The Bahamas.
For Deveaux, who plays electric bass, trumpet, baritone, keyboard, and sings bass and who is about to start learning the upright (double) bass, music, he said, is one of the most powerful forces in the world and one of the greatest forms of self-expression.
“Music is a God-given gift that helps to heal, express, and even alter a person’s mood.”
Deveaux, a jazz performance major, is seeking to pursue a master’s in sound recording at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
This from the young man who originally thought he wanted to be a graphic designer. And while he said he did not take music seriously after receiving the trumpet from his mom Kim Deveaux, and learning to play the instrument, he started playing in marching bands – Urban Renewal 1.0, Golden Gates Outreach Marching Band – but it wasn’t until high school and playing at Bahamas Harvest’s Crossover Youth Church and with the Bahamas All Stars that he said he began to take music seriously.
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