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b'Stevie Howie played music since he was a young kid, picking up piano when he was about 5 or 6 years old. He didn\'t necessarily think that I had a particularly "special" connection to music primarily because he thought that understanding music as a fundamentally powerful, immutable force of the universe was just a fact. Stevie couldn\'t imagine not seeing that. It wasn\'t until he knew that other people didn\'t quite see things the same way that he did that Stevie began to see my love for music as "special".\\n\\nMr. Howie continued playing music, picking up guitar when he was about 9 years old. He spent countless hours in my room playing along to Green Day and Paramore videos on YouTube, imagining that he was in the music videos in their places. This all lasted for a while, until the end of middle school, when the desire to be "cool" trumped my desire to pursue music. So he put down the guitar and piano for a few years until his junior year of high school. Stevie started listening to lots of blues music, mainly the three kings (Albert King, BB King, and Freddie King), Stevie Ray Vaughan, and John Mayer, as well as a lot of Fleetwood Mac. Soon he started playing music constantly. Stevie was obsessed with guitars and everything about them, and probably watched every single live performance of "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room" that has ever been played. Stevie graduated from high school to go to The University of Alabama, where his white Fender Strat was the one constant thing in a life full of changes, drama, and lot of emotional desperation. Then, he discovered music production near the end of my freshman year of college. Once that happened, it was all over. Stevie was heartbroken and had nowhere else to put all of my emotion, so he fully dove into creating songs through the beginning of my sophomore year of college. In fact, he spent so much of his time making music that he almost lost his scholarship. He had locked himself in his room making music for so long, had skipped so many classes, and had spent so little time and effort on his classes that he was literally failing to meet the bare minimum. But something was off. Stevie was desperately missing something. It took him some time to realize, but he needed to pursue music. Stevie loved engineering things, but music existed on a different plane. \\nTherefore, in May of 2021, one semester before college graduation, Stevie decided to change the entire plan. He was going to pursue music. At all costs. He was set to finish a work co-op over the summer and his final semester of school over the fall, but he wanted to move to Los Angeles and start his music career as soon as possible, so Stevie made some calls with the computer science department at Alabama to allow him to complete his final semester online, and moved to LA in August. Fast forward to today, Mr. Howie is a TikTok Sensation and just released his first single, \\u201cShakes.\\u201d I am honored to have him as a guest on \\u201cBlack Canvas.\\u201d'