Today we’d like to introduce you to Mclish Fraser.
Hi Mclish, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
Like Suidward from SpongeBob would say “It all started, when I was born”. Honestly it would be no other way to say my why. My mother suffered with sickecell, and was poisoned due to afterbirth complications with my older sibling, so I had to be cut out of her on December 10th, one day before her birthday, she passed on Christmas just fifteen days after in the hospital. I carried a lot of feelings due to the void of not having that part of my broughtupsy, and my father worked very hard to prove for myself and my elder sibling. I loved music from the moment I could understand what adults were saying and speaking about around me as well as this language called “pig latin/gibberish”, and I wanted to understand my own feelings and why my life was the way it was. I never received the understanding that would quell my heart and calm my mind, so for a while I was lost in religion and begging for solice and to keep my family alive. I turned eleven and my great grandmother gave me a surprise, I was sent to the United States to go to school and even thrive, not knowing the last hug was my last hug from my granny, she passed away but still alive. She helped raise me from a small child, she gave me love and made me smile, I was always at her house and too the market at her side. Nothing else mattered in my little innocent eyes, I was guilty of a lot, my sensitivity wouldn’t hide. She cultivated love and with my father I told no lies, I’m still guilty of the guilt that grew inside me all the while, I change the world with every smile especially times I hurt inside, it was a heavy loss to bare without my granny I was in exile. I exiled the world from my heart due to the losses I indured, the harsh times I faced in my home country and the ones outside this new door. Fast forward to a child who learned to write like no before. It was poetry and Mr. Gaskin was my teacher, he wasn’t teaching to write he was teaching us the proper reasons, how to formulate a paragraph and use each sentence even. Then we learned about poetry, and I was allowed to write a story, or a sonet or an ode and all the above even the seasons. I would write and write and write, never getting tired for any reason, I’d just ‘crack my knuckles ‘ and keep on writing until I wrote out all my feelings. I felt heard by myself, as I was writing I was reading. In a way I healed myself a little but theres deeper meaning. A poor boy from a third world country, waiting for a chance to change the world’s feelings. I Love writing, I even wrote a book of poetry using computer printing paper and gave it to my girlfriend, she lost it. Such a tragedy, she felt bad because she would always read it. She lost her Viginity to me when we graduated junior high, she understood me and our hearts were mature but still like a child, we had fun together. That core memory is part of my reason why I make music that speaks to everyone especially my feelings towards love and women, my love for my mother my grandmother and the respect I have for them, and women in general is why I am the way I am. For someone who’s used to not being heard it’s no coincidence that I specialize in communication. Music is the universal language we all understand, I became a master writer, still guilty of that master plan. Let’s change the way the world feels.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Buju banton said it best, “It’s not an easy road’ jah help you sustain these blows, I cry”. From losing my mother at just fifteen days old, losing an important woman in my life who helped raise me, my great grandmother, to many obstacles I faced coming to a new world at just eleven years old. It has been the spirit of the ones who love me and the most high who held me in their arms and away from trouble that came at every corner, every month, and every turn. I’m an immigrant to this country so it has never been easy, though I was programed to only see me during trouble and I taught myself to see me during my school years as I would have to sit out of 90 percent of trips and school activities, my father wasn’t able to send me to the events and I wasn’t able to go on many trips if they weren’t free. So my classmates would be my way of going on those adventures when they told me how it went, or I would see those places in movies or on TV shows. It never made me jealous or envious, I’d always imagine how I would enjoy it when it was my turn, and I was able. Staying out of trouble was easy for me because my father would tell me he would ship me back to Trinidad where life isnt great economically and environmentally due to high crime rates. Also I learned that when you are arrested in the United States you get shipped to the country your from and serve the remainder of your sentence there or additional time. It’s safe to say outside of fighting in school and after school, I stayed away from anything that would bring the attention of the law. I was already being beaten by my father for snatching I did wrong in school and I would be banned from everything since my grades weren’t the best, I did my best though I couldn’t keep up with the teacher’s speech, and the notes weren’t much either. Either way I always saw my situation as a challenge to overcome, being as religious as I, I saw myself as the left hand of God in my imagination, my situation was harder than anyone I had ever met and they said God gives his hardest tasks to his strongest warriors. I took that personal since everyone had/have their mother and father, plus they were all citizens and I faced the same challenges on top of the disadvantages of a motherless child from a different world and my father didn’t make as nearly as much as the other children’s parents so I didn’t have the brands, imagine being open hearted around the popularity contests going on in school, so I fought because I was nobody’s fool. I earned respect for standing up for my friend when he was bullied since he couldn’t fight, i told the bully to try that bully stuff with me, he threatened me so I told him I’ll see him after school, that was during lunch time so everyone heard it, I waited at the door and reminded him of his threat, I dragged my knuckles on the ground with an uppercut and it was a short fight the security guard grabbed me and took me all the way to the principles office. The one time I didnt get beat by my father because he then told me why he never wanted me fighting. He said i don’t want you fighting but if you fight you better win because then it’s me and you!. Lol it’s funny but he was serious, in a way my mind took it as “okay we can only fight when it really matters ” he would beat me if I fought because someone talked about my mother or something like that, he always say “words is wind” it can’t hurt you. My father is my greatest teacher, I never blamed him for how he raised me, I always thought I deserved everything that happened in my life because he taught me everything happens for a reason. So in my mind I was always trying to find the reasons my mother passed why God took my granny from me and why I was poor and nobody wanted me. I later learned that a lot of children were suffering when I would spend time at friends houses and different friends were different races and each house they had different values, they ate dinner together but at different times each house each race, they would be like the TV families I saw growing up in trinidad and I always wanted that with my older sibling and my father. My challenge is still my challenge I’m an immigrant with no home and a big dream, while I fight against other artists to become one of the greatest performers ever, I still fight with my disadvantages and lack of funds. I’m building the first Iron man suit in a cave, with a bunch of scraps”. To steal a line from Iron Man.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I am a champion for the poor boy and girl who has big dreams in a world that tells you not to dream only go to sleep and then wake. What I do is use my magic to alchemize the negative and write about the experience of how I made it, I use music as a tool to communicate with the people as I also make promotional videos promoting my agenda, I talk about reality in my music so when the people listen they would listen to remember and remember to listen. I’m known for being a good listener, a kind person and a good friend, I’m low-key known for being a guardian angel amongst men, I’m known for being a light in the darkness but I am not dark. I’m known for being faithful and true. I stand by that in every song I make and every piece of content I create. Turning my pain into my power so it no longer hurts, and motivating others to do the same. I’m most proud of growing and not ever being fully grown, always learning and being accountable for my actions and my words, I’m proud of my ability to take accountability as well. That sets me apart from others who are what I call, “Spiritual scammers” I don’t copy and paste my content nor do i watch what others do and follow, I learned to follow into leading, so knowing who to follow, and who not to follow, taught me how to lead. The way I carry myself and others, is how I would want my mother to carry me.
So maybe we end on discussing what matters most to you and why?
Children matter the most to me, and nature’s children, because children are the future. Without children there is no future.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/trillsinatra/1455659665
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamtrillsinatra?utm_source=qr&igsh=cWJrZ2cxbzNtNXRv
- Facebook: Trillsinatra toinfinity
- Twitter: https://x.com/TRILLTRINI?t=wZuPhyUEHPMCEjcwOsqYbw&s=09
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCJSs8evUqSM1tRJvXzoIwOw?si=tBO42eOlTjKn7jZq
