How hard was it transitioning from Ford Model to singer-songwriter?
Steph Jones: It was hard. I was actually trying to sing while I was modeling, but no one would take me seriously. After I got out of jail, I told myself that I would focus on my music and forget about the modeling for now. What I did. And that’s what I’m doing. Nu-Soul: As a child you were Houston-born and raised in Missouri City, how have both the music cultures in both environments influenced your sound? Steph Jones: It wasn’t the music in my surroundings, basically it was the music played inside my house. It wasn’t the music induced in an area, because I was grounded and never had to go outside. My mother was a deejay and that was the music that influenced me, whatever she played that’s what influenced me whether I knew it or not because I didn’t grow up wanting to be a singer. Nu-Soul: You said your mother was a deejay growing up. What was your father? Steph Jones: My dad was a drug dealer and he was murdered when I was 12. Nu-Soul: So, what did you want to be growing up? Steph Jon
