'Musiq' is the front man and 'Soulchild' is the idea behind it. The stage name "Musiq Soulchild" is technically two ideas. ![]() That's how much I dug it when you see me, I want you to automatically think of music. "There were people who knew of me but they didn't really know me they just knew me as 'that music dude.' So after getting that so much, I was like, 'Just call me Musiq.' It was so fresh to me because if I had to be called anything, I would have wanted to be called Music. He dropped out of high school to pursue a career in music. During his teenage years he built a reputation for being musically gifted, beat boxing for MCs freestyling on the open mic circuit, scatting at jazz clubs, or just performing an a cappella for strangers on the streets, which is where he got the name "Musiq" and later added "Soulchild." He cites as his inspirations such icons as Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and Donny Hathaway. Musiq was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in a strict Muslim household. ![]()
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