Today we’d like to introduce you to Deco Fam.
Deco, we’d love to hear your story and how you got to where you are today both personally and as an artist.
We are a group of 2 Haitian music artists/designers by the name of Deco Ho Chi Mayne & Deco STLN collectively known as Deco Fam. We are children born of the same dirt and filth that breeds the rest society growing up in the underprivileged south. The hot city of Miami Dade County, some would call it as Miami, FL. taught us how to move. Born of Haitian immigrant parents and the lack of financial stability forced us to grow up quick. We had very few choices in our position. However, we put our energy into the very same streets that raised us, finding a way to not let those circumstances define us. We chose to reflect upon those experiences through music and design. This became our mode of expression, our escape.
We are artist & creative minds first and last and until infinity and beyond. We are classically trained industrial designers who ended going to the same high school, studying design and art at Design & Architecture Senior High in Miami and pursued our Bachelors of Fine Arts in Industrial and Product Design at the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit,MI.
We began our careers in footwear design offering our creative insights to brands like Converse, Reebok, Under Armour, Adidas, PUMA, and most recently ANTA. Having spent majority of our professional career at PUMA you have seen our designs at the forefront of partnerships with Fenty, the Weeknd, Selena Gomez, and Jay-Z to name a few. Throughout our design journey we’ve shared an equally deep passion for music and decided to start releasing music to the public a few years back. At the beginning of this year we released our first single “Deco Juug” off our debut album “Chinatown” executive produced by SUPR SPRT which was featured in The FADER. The album is currently available on all digital stream services.
We’d love to hear more about your art. What do you do you do and why and what do you hope others will take away from your work?
The sound of Deco Fam is a constant conversation, a balance of southern hostility, artistic anxiety and a need to be heard, paired with an unbiased observation of us and what we can take over together. Deco was an artistic movement defined by a diversity of color shape, form and texture. Fam, is the culmination of love, and experiences in and around your life. Deco Fam, is a movement of creatives in all shapes, sizes, color, form and texture moving together as unit or family as means rectify the world.
We create, point blank, whether its fashion, or music we just make! We do this through a perspective of the youth culture around us, we believe what we say and think defines the world around us, in a sick kind of matrix kind of way! We live and die by the very culture that created us, and this is reflected in our design and music.
At the beginning of this year we released the first single with the music video “Deco Juug” off our debut album “Chinatown” executive produced by SUPR SPRT, our resident DJ/Producer who is Russian Immigrant from Nashville, TN. “Deco Juug” was featured with the music video on The FADER in January of this year. “Deco Juug” talks of what it means to be on the move either mentally or physically. To be in a circle of like minds moving towards goal, to link up with your people or maneuver your way through or around obstacle or opposition, your Juug is whatever you deem necessary to survive, creative and live.
“Chinatown” is a musical journey that reflects Deco Fam’s sonic influence from their regular stints in Asia during the manufacturing phase of the footwear design process. With heavy trap bass lines and Haitian percussive undertones, the music puts a quirky fun twist on what we recognize as “trap” music.
Deco Fam was more recently featured artists performing at The PULL UP hosted by New Era of New England at ONCE Ballroom in Somerville, MA this past March.
The sterotype of a starving artist scares away many potentially talented artists from pursuing art – any advice or thoughts about how to deal with the financial concerns an aspiring artist might be concerned about?
Don’t isolate and don’t look at those insignificant things like race, gender, or mindset. Let yourself be open to making friends and fam any and everywhere, that’s how we survive, you can too. The industry is full of some big names and even bigger egos, we operate from a place and passion, and we never are too big or too small for anyone we come into contact with, it’s all love, until it’s not, then you know how dade county do!
Do you have any events or exhibitions coming up? Where would one go to see more of your work? How can people support you and your artwork?
You have probably seen and worn our work as it pertains footwear design at some point, whether it be can be found on store shelves, your closet, internationally syndicated advertisements, or simply walking down the street. We have been fortunate to see our designs sported by public figures such as Rihanna, Jay-Z, Selena Gomes, The Weekend, Meek Mill, Missoni Fashion house, Nigel Cabourn, Stussy to name a few.
Our debut album “Chinatown” can be found and downloaded on all digital streaming services as well as YouTube and Soundcloud.
Our design portfolio can be found under our government names Frantz Mondesir & Guercy Eugene on “Behance.com”.
Contact Info:
- Website: instagram.com/deco_fam
- Email: decofam@decofam.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deco_fam/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/decofamMV/
Image Credit:
Ivan Lanz
Astin Davis
Hal Ocasio
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