Kam Taylor is a fourth-year student majoring in applied economics and finance. Taylor has been involved on campus in a handful of ways that include time spent serving as a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity, as a student administrative assistant, and as a student development representative for the University of Minnesota Foundation. He has also dedicated his free time over the last year to producing his own music. Taylor released his first EP, Kam’s World, in June 2020.
“I would say what drew me to music was church because every time I’d go to church, I’d sing. And I wouldn’t always go every Sunday – but I would go to choir, and that was when I first started singing. That started the exhaust for me, and influenced me to keep going with it. The first time I made music was my senior year. But in the spring of last year, me and my friend Jacob produced all of Kam’s World together. We just started making music around then, started doing it every single day, and it was cool.
I would say what keeps me going honestly is that I really appreciate the work artists do today. My dream collaboration is probably with Drake, honestly. I guess I want to be perceived as a person who doesn’t take stuff from other people and is driven in life. Someone who whatever they say is gonna happen, they actually make it happen.
I think every time you hear a song, it’s like a short story of what’s happened in my life – or at least, little snippets of parts of my life that have happened or things that I want to happen. I feel like I want to be inspirational, like we’re all here, we all want all this stuff, and we can all go get it, but we all just have to try.”
Interviewed by Sophia Zimmerman