Gone by Cain & April with the Original Sinners

Explore the diverse impact that Colorado's young people have in their communities. Each episode highlights a group of kids that are engaged in making Colorado the great place it is! Hosted by Richard M. Carter this half our program explores communites that may not be recognized in our mainstream community.

Indy band that rocks the house with a mix of hip/hop and rock.

KC was born in New Orleans at the time where there were few opportunities for a young man full of dreams of becoming a guitar star. In his teen he was motivated to teach himself how to play guitar to inter a school talent show, in two weeks, he taught himself to play the Rolling Stone song: “Satisfaction.” After winning, he went on to form his first band called “First brothers,” where he taught his three brothers how to play, on drums, Robert Davis, on bass Christopher Davis, and on rhythm guitar Jerry Bell. When they first started KC was playing drums, but he soon move back to lead guitar, at this time he thought he should learn how to play the guitar in the right way, but was told that he played the lead so well using three strings, the guitar teacher said KC was going the right direction and to keep doing what he was doing. KC would figure out how to finger the strings and make his guitar sound like what he heard on the radio. At the time the only musicians you would see on TV for the most part was white singers, like Elvis and every once in a while soul artists James Brown. KC needed to showcase the music he was doing so his band started playing at the county Perish fairs, where he was able to sharpen his skills. At the age of 21, In Baton Rouge Louisiana, KC recorded his first record, his third record was recorded in the studio called Matassa’s owned by the guy that did “Judy in the sky with glasses,” by John Fred and his Playboys that was release 1968; Fats Domino also recorded in this studio. In the south at that time parents usually had a tight hold of their children and KC mother wouldn’t let John Fred sign him, because she was afraid that they would miss use her son as so many black artists was done back in those days. Ten years later KC was managing an all-girls band and he named them, “The Look Band.” They played along Bourbon Street for a year; then he played for a band called “Sugar Foot,” as a backup guitarist. In 1982, at the time there was a song called “knock out,” by Margi Joseph where once again KC was the guitarist. Around 1982 he bought a Kramer guitar that would give him even more star quality as he continue to make waves in the R&B musical world! In 2005 KC world would be turn up-side down and he would lose all of his musical equipment except his Kramer Guitar. The Katrina flood wash KC’s physical equipment away, but not his dream to entertain people, so as many had to do, KC was transplanted from New Orleans to Denver, where he had to start over. KC started playing the clubs from Cricket on the Hill, 100 Monkeys and KoKo Pelly, El-Chapultepec 2, Her bar and grill, Pierre Supper Club, The Falling Rock where he did a benefit with Sammy Mayfield, Herman’s Hide-Away, Road House Bar and Grill and this year KC has played at Zephyr restaurant and Lounge, Atmosphere Sutra Lounge, Rock Bottom and many more events. In 2012 KC sign with Innervision and is now a member of Mr. Johnson’s Nonprofit Agency and has put out a CD called KC and Friends and working on his next CD.