Q. Good day, DOMBINO! We appreciate you taking the time to speak with us. The first thing we want to know is how would you describe your sound to someone who’s never heard your music before?
A. I would describe my sound and my music to someone who’s never heard it before as “evolving,” something that gets better over time but is forever changing, kind of like how we are as humans—just growing and changing and getting better and better. My music is a sound you can feel and connect to.
Q. Is there a specific song in your catalog that you feel defines who you are as an artist? Why that one?
A. I would say there are maybe two songs out of my catalog that I feel define me as an artist, and that’s my song “Take the Pain Away” and a song off my latest project You Should’ve Never Left Me called “PROGRESSING.” These two songs specifically, because I wrote Take the Pain Away a few days after my friend’s passing, and it was during a rough time between the mother of my child and me—just back-and-forth arguing. I felt like, at the time, it was just a lot to deal with. I was vulnerable, experiencing feelings and emotions I’d never felt before: the loss of a friend and about to become a father. It was a bittersweet time, but the song came to me literally—I heard the beat, and it was like all of my feelings poured out: everything I was going through and how I was feeling.
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My song PROGRESSING shows you how my sound, as I said earlier, is a sound that keeps evolving. If you go back to my first record I released, How I’m Coming, off my first tape A Gift From Me to You, you can hear how I’ve evolved and where I’m at in life. I’ve been through a lot and dealt with a lot. PROGRESSING is me finally being free to do what I want, how I want, and having fun doing it.
Q. If you could collaborate with any artist, living or dead, who would it be?
Q. What's the biggest risk you've taken in your career so far, and what did you learn from it?
A. The biggest risk I’ve taken so far in my career was performing for the first time a few months ago. I felt nervous and had the jitters at first, but when it was time to perform, I did what I was supposed to do and had a great time.
Q. If this interview was the last thing someone read before listening to your music, what would you want them to know?
A. If this interview was the last one someone read before ever hearing my music, I would want them to know that if you take two steps forward, you’ll be much further than the person that hasn’t. Keep evolving and keep growing.
