Devay Myatt

Devay’s writing

Hello my name is Devay Myatt II. I am from Detroit Michigan were I was born and raised and were most of my family lives. I started my music career when I was about in the sixth grade. When my father put me in piano class I absolutely hated the classes and piano. My father put me in piano lessons and I never really understood why he would think I wanted to play the piano. After growing up with so many people that I knew in the music world I started to attach myself with them and began to love music. In the ending of my eighth grade year I really started to pick the piano back up only because I thought that I had a place in the music world. As the years went by in high school I started to get better and better at music and just learning how to play by ear. I now play at my father’s church and I am the main youth musician at the international conference for the Full Gospel Baptist Ministries. I won the best musician award in the international conference in 2011 and plan on making more progress over the years.  I decided that I wanted to be within the music production and business world so therefor I came to Columbia College in Chicago.

I heard about Columbia College through one of my friends that is in the music production world. My first option for college was in Boston at Berklee University. I didn’t make the cut so my friend told me about Columbia and he said it was one of the best schools he had ever seen and been to. I started to do more research on Columbia and I really started to get into it. I looked up the field that I wanted to go into and saw that Columbia had it. Once I was done with all the research I started to find myself wanting to go to this school and get into the music production program and more. I believe that Columbia would be the best for me and my future and I can’t wait to start in the music division.

When you grow up and you’re a kid that travels a lot like me you go to different states and cities and see a lot of different people and schools there but, when I came to Chicago  and saw Columbia I said to myself that this might be the best thing that has ever happened to me. I love learning and making new connections and that’s just what I plan on doing with my stay in Columbia College and Chicago.