
Kyd the Band isn’t looking for shortcuts and certainly has no fear going against the grain. While most artists flock to the city of Los Angeles to pursue their dreams, KTB’s Devin Guisande left California to hone in on his craft in Nashville, TN. The move wasn’t easy at first – a starving artist in true form, Guisande was sleeping on the floor of a room he shared with his ex-bandmate and brother following his dissent from the Pentecostal church at 18. Against the odds, the multi-instrumentalist, producer, and songwriter clocked in +40 hours a week while working on music each hour he had left to spare. After toughing it out and paying his dues, Devin landed cuts with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Robin Schulz, gnash, NF, and ROZES to name a few. It was his time in the studio as a songwriter that shaped his solo career and later gave way for his support slot on tour with NF under the Kyd the Band moniker. Fast forward 2 years, KTB’s debut single “American Dreamer” has amassed over 2.5 million streams on Spotify while his first major label release “Human” was featured on Apple Music’s ‘Best of the Week’ and ‘The A-List: Pop’ playlists.
Today Kyd the Band reveals his new single “Easy” with RCA‘s Elley Duhé. Written alongside Duhé in one of his very first writing sessions, the track is particularly special in its arrival almost 3 years later.
“‘Easy’ started as something for Kyd the Band but originally there weren’t any plans to pitch it. Then the demo got to NF and he loved it, and wanted part of it. At the time there wasn’t really anything going on so it made sense to let go of part of the song. The story behind ‘Easy’ is such a big part of my own story that I knew we had to write more and have it come out at some point as a KTB track.” In an interview with Spindle Magazine, he adds: “I hope listeners hear some of their own story and I hope they feel inspired to keep going. But I also hope it’s a reminder for them, that life is more than the things we pursue and to not lose sight of that. ‘Easy’ is the reminder I wanted to give myself (and continually give myself) to not lose myself in the game with everything Im chasing. I feel like Ive already had to make a lot of sacrifices in my life up to this point, and I’m still a long way from where I want to be. If the day ever comes where I feel like I’ve arrived, I wonder if I’ll be able to look back and say ‘yeah, that was totally worth it.’ But there’s equally this part of me that wants to make something great of my life, and in order to do that, you can’t ever stop and you have to know it comes with costs. That’s just part of the game but I feel like this internal tug of war thing doesnt ever stop.”