Curate U
Freeform Loc Star
4/24/2026 | 4m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Interactive percussion artist spreads high-vibe energy, turning audiences into collaborators.
This episode of Curate U spotlights a dynamic percussion artist who transforms performances into interactive, high-vibrational experiences. Blending rhythm, dance, and audience participation, he invites people to connect, celebrate life, and release energy together—creating a joyful, collaborative atmosphere that leaves everyone smiling, moving, and uplifted.
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Curate U is a local public television program presented by WHRO Public Media
Curate U
Freeform Loc Star
4/24/2026 | 4m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of Curate U spotlights a dynamic percussion artist who transforms performances into interactive, high-vibrational experiences. Blending rhythm, dance, and audience participation, he invites people to connect, celebrate life, and release energy together—creating a joyful, collaborative atmosphere that leaves everyone smiling, moving, and uplifted.
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For me, raising the vibration is ex extremely important.
We have a lot of low vibrational energy in the world that we see all around us.
I'm always focused on, you know, a consciousness about raising vibration and tapping into that type of energy.
It's not just about the music to me and the percussion, it's about the dance experience too as well.
I do this interactive percussion performance art, and I would just describe it as like a celebration of life.
Really bringing in the audience, bringing in the spectator, and they become a participant in the actual collaborative effort of what's going on on the stage.
You get to exchange energy and it's a thriving thing that you can just kind of vibe off of.
I have kaon drums, I also have African Ngoma drums.
They also have hand percussions, various shakers if there's children in the audience.
I like to hand out the little egg shakers to children.
They find that interesting and they start shaking the shakers.
- You, - I always think about it in that manner of who the audience might be and who can I tap in with and pull them in.
- My mom was at a popup and I saw people drumming.
I was like, Ooh, that's cool, and I like that sound right?
And then I start playing the drum and then he start telling me how to play the drum and then I kept going and kept going and it was staying there until it was like dark.
- He is very just a unique person.
I think it's a whole package.
You know, he comes, he has the, you know, the crazy style locks.
He has the rockstar Afro futuristic vibe about him.
He's for the culture and he's also a rock star.
And so you see those different parts of himself blended in together, you know, seamlessly.
- The freeform lock star thing started out when I first started my Instagram page, posting pictures of myself going through different stages with my locks, and then Loc Star is a play on rockstar.
I'm the type of person that doesn't stay still and I'm all over the place.
So a lot of people like, yo, he's, he's a rockstar on stage.
When you see that energy, sort of the freeform rockstar is perfect, you know, name and it's, it's, it fits.
When people hear that, they go, oh yeah, it makes sense.
- There was this feeling you get when you are in a similar place with another musician and you know, even before you play a single note, that the environment is gonna be good and that we're gonna transform the air in the sonic space that people hear.
And then freeform is very good at that.
It's a beautiful Sunday.
- Freeform is a really powerful catalyst for change.
Freeform is the light that allows people to say, come on out.
Like you did not come out to just be stuck in that chair.
You did not come out here, right?
To be quiet and cool and in the corner.
You came here to release something.
- Blessed.
I know.
I feel blessed to be alive.
Lets celebrate life.
Blessed all life go.
- I just wanna be remembered as that guy that made you smile and it made you dance, made you feel good.
I'm digging that.
That for me, is something that I would say is gratifying.
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