ARTIST Z Electronic Press Kit — Biography Troy KZ Davis · KZ · LD50 Salt Lake City, Utah Contact: troy.davis89.td@gmail.com Full-time music. 100% owned. A 90-day track-a-day sprint for an upcoming docuseries. Live acoustic instruments under heavy trap production. Campfire to Club. THE CRUCIBLE Artist Z’s story doesn’t start in a studio — it starts on the road and in the streets. Raised by a touring mother on the West Coast, his earliest memories are highway miles, campfire songs, and the records that filled the van. Everything he learned was by ear — self-taught, no formal training. Before he ever had a teacher, he was transcribing piano pieces onto the guitar, hearing the architecture in the music and rebuilding it with his hands. Behind the music was a brutal reality. By nine, his first taste of homelessness — kicked out into the winter cold. Growing up where his stepfather cooked meth, he was exposed to chaos before he hit double digits. Thirteen schools. Physical abuse. Forced onto the streets by thirteen. He had to become a survivor. THE HUSTLE & THE SOUNDTRACK Navigating the underground as a teenager, his palette widened. Classic rock and metal collided with the raw narratives of street rap — the cadence, the storytelling, the grit of the life he was already living. At fourteen he put on a toolbelt, lied about his age, and started framing houses — eventually buying his first Mercedes. The streets caught up: sixty-three days in a juvenile receiving center. He kept fighting forward. By eighteen he was traveling the nation framing churches. THE FALL & THE FIRE Construction’s physical toll became surgeries, painkillers, and addiction. In May 2010, a rollover — nine times — nearly ended him. Life-flighted. Trauma surgery to reattach his left arm. What followed was detox in a jail cell and a long fight with his own demons. He refused to break. General engineering and building licenses. Stability rebuilt. A family with his partner, Jaimee. Under the construction career, a deeper calling never left. THE ULTIMATUM There was only ever one thing that cut through the trauma, the noise, and the addiction: the guitar — the same instrument he’d always taught himself by ear. With a new baby girl on the way — adding to his son and older daughter — he made the ultimate bet on himself. He walked away from the engineering and construction career he’d earned the hard way. Gave away the equipment. Burned the ships. Artist Z’s music is forged in absolute adversity — Campfire to Club: acoustic storytelling and classic-rock bone meeting the cadence and grit of street rap. He already survived the worst the world offered. Now that same will is aimed at the music. THE SPRINT The bet is now a full-time life. Artist Z is writing and producing a track a day in a 90-day music sprint, filmed for an upcoming docuseries. Live acoustic instruments sit against heavy trap production — confession first, then the weight. The catalog is being built in public, one finished track at a time. Home is Salt Lake City, Utah. Booking / licensing: troy.davis89.td@gmail.com Phone: (732) 784-7892 EPK: https://distro-safe.vercel.app/epk