Chicago raised, LA based soul/pop artist Aryk Crown has been steadily delivering his soul influenced, guitar driven musical vision for the last decade. While comparisons to John Mayer and Ben Harper aren't unwarranted, Aryk sports more love for true soul music than any of the above. While pioneering his own lane, Aryk draws inspiration from the 90's r&b he grew up on while honoring his guitar idols throughout the songs he writes

From his early four-track recordings in a studio apartment to recent grass-roots efforts in crowd-sourcing and charity work to the hand-stamped artwork and distribution his last EP it's all innovative, creative and certainly DIY, but Crown's ethic also hearkens back to a time before DIY was hip or underground. With his own two hands, Crown isn't building walls in order to stand-out, so much as bridges.