When it comes to music, Traz is and always has been an artist. From his earliest days as a child in Newark, NJ, he displayed a natural ability to both absorb and create music. Although Traz was an inner-city child growing up in the 80's/90’s during Hip-Hop's infancy, he was not immediately exposed to it the way many of his neighborhood friends and class mates were. Aside from Hip-Hop, Traz spent a lot of that time in the house listening to everything from Sam Cooke to Kenny Rodgers, Michael Jackson to Bruce Springsteen or Funkadelic to Guns & Roses.

Over the years, Traz spent all his free time attempting to become the ultimate "artist", always feeling, however, that there were talents within him that might allow him to speak not only to those who loved Hip-Hop, but also to those who would never think of listening to a rap song. He began experimenting with a fusion of rap and rock music that eventually led him to meet a hardcore trio from the Bronx known, at the time as "10 K Spike". Within a year of their initial meeting, they would form a Rock band known as "One Day Left".

After three years of recording and gigging, One Day Left signed a major recording contract with Atlantic Records in 2006. As a result of various record label politics, One Day Left disbanded. Since leaving the band, Traz took time to do some soul searching and discovered his true purpose for creating music: To articulate the joy, pain, and everything in between that everyday people go through in their pursuit of The American Dream.

As a solo artist, Traz has developed a sound that seamlessly blends Rock, Pop and Hip Hop. His new project has started a new movement that fans have been buzzing about. Currently, Traz is performing all over the east coast to promote his new independent EP, Shift Work, on Novakain Entertainment Records. The LP is due for release late July 2009.


Instrumentation
Traz Messiah- Singer; Lyricist; Poet; Guitarist.

Discography
-One Day Left, The LP (with One Day Left)
-Shift Work (Solo LP)

Links
http://www.myspace.com/traz2080
http://www.novakainentertainment.com