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Q
gets vulnerable in the
soul-bearing genre blending new EP
‘THE SHAVE EXPERIMENT’

OUT NOW VIA COLUMBIA RECORDS

LISTEN HERE

WATCH THE NEW LIVE PERFORMANCE VIDEO FOR
‘TAKE ME WHERE YOUR HEART IS’ HERE

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“The Shave Experiment is a magnetic initiation into the disquiet that filled his head for years.” – Noisey

“When Q turns on the mic, his songs come to life” – Milk

“Q’s falsetto glides through a melody fit for a timeless R&B classic.” – Pigeons & Planes

“Q’s spellbinding falsetto is the closest one gets to capturing the larger-than-life and weightless feeling of young love” – Ones To Watch

“Q is only 21 years old and on his way to greatness” – Flaunt

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Q releases the soulful and electrifying new EP The Shave Experiment today, via Columbia Records/Sony Music Entertainment Australia. Along with the release of the soul-baring EP, Q is sharing an intimate live performance of ‘Take Me Where Your Heart Is’ featuring his father and fellow musician, Steven “Lenky” Marsden. Watch the performance video HERE. Q shows no shortage of talent as The Shave Experiment boasts his unique musicality as a multi-instrumentalist as well as his promising development as a producer with honest and vulnerable song writing. The self-taught musician shows all the tell tale signs of being one of 2021’s most formidable artists to watch.

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About Q

With a powerful falsetto and a knack for tender, soulful storytelling, Q Marsden is well on his way
to capturing the hearts and minds of a generation.

Q was five years old when he started recording music. Raised by musician parents, the 21-year-old singer-songwriter from Broward County, Florida fondly remembers laying his first tracks down in studios his father, who produced hits for reggae and dancehall legends Sean Paul and Wayne Wonder, brought him to Jamaica. His mother—a former keyboardist for bands associated with Jamaican acts like Beenie Man, Bounty Killer and Dennis Brown, and the musical director of their church where Q sang in the choir—showed him the art of performance. At home, his parents introduced him to Michael Jackson, prompting Q to learn to appreciate pop artistry at the highest level.

Despite his early foundations in music, Q was never taught how to play the piano, guitar, and drums that grace his stirring, melodic songs. “I would listen to it and try to play it piece by piece,” Q explains about teaching himself to play the keys by ear and using classic Mozart as a guide. Soon enough he was programming beats into his mother’s Triton keyboard. When he heard Drake’s 2013 album NOTHING WAS THE SAME, Q was inspired to make production his focus, and even sold a guitar he had bought in order to get the computer equipment he needed to strengthen his sound.

Fast forward to 2018, the year Q released his first project, the self-produced THOUGHTS—a heartfelt, acoustic-driven collection of folksy R&B ballads. “It was me practicing vulnerability, just practicing expressing how I feel in a certain way,” Q says about the raw, emotive album, adding “I used to suppress my emotions and wouldn’t talk to anybody but the microphone.” Not one to write lyrics, Q is most comfortable using the mic as his journal, giving his vocals an intuitive, impulsively expressive edge. “The song has to speak before I put the lyrics down, I have to feel what the beat is saying,” he explains. 2019’s Forest Green finds Qexperimenting with his sound, from expanding his production to include drums to singing in a lower register. A promising body of work from the young artist, Forest Green is home to single ‘Lavender’, already at millions of streams, and NBA 2K20 soundtrack pick, ‘I Might Slip Away if I Don’t Feel Nothing’.

“My music now has no resemblance to Forest Green or even Thoughts,” Q says about the evolution of his sound and new, collaborative music on the horizon with the likes of awe-inspiring, emerging chanteuse Baby Rose. He’s in a different place now, and so naturally, the music is different. With the release of his new project, Q wants to focus on his message: “Evolve, change and give hope, nothing more and nothing less,” he says.

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Follow Q
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AMNPLIFY – DB