Artist Z
KZ / Artist Z / LD50
Salt Lake City, Utah

100-WORD BIO
Artist Z writes, plays, and owns the catalog. Salt Lake City. Genre-fluid — guitar and voice first. 100% owned: masters, publishing, one-stop clearance. The live night is a full set. Room proof: Adam & Eve at Tailgate Tavern. Direct line: troy.davis89.td@gmail.com.

200-WORD BIO
Artist Z writes, plays, and owns the catalog. Salt Lake City. The songs are genre-fluid — singer-songwriter, alternative hip-hop, indie folk, alt pop, country, industrial — whatever the song asks for, not a house style. He learned by ear — no formal training — and rebuilt piano pieces on guitar before anyone showed him how. Masters and publishing are 100% his. No samples. One-stop clearance. The work is full-time. He plays live guitar and vocals. The night is a full set. Room proof is Adam & Eve at Tailgate Tavern. Booking and licensing are a direct email. For contracts and press, the legal name is Troy KZ Davis. Camera credits, listed separately: marshal tech on Marshals Season 2 (CBS / Paramount+), and John Smith in Granny Stamp (Black Tie Productions).

Writes it. Plays it. Owns it. Salt Lake City, Utah.
Genre-fluid. Guitar and voice first. Full set. Campfire to club. 100% of the masters and the publishing.

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. The song picks the lane. 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.
Guitar and voice first, then whatever weight the song needs. 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
