In this interview Co-Founder Payden Hilliard delves deep into Austin Davis' remarkable story. A glimpse of why Austin's name is etched into the very fabric of modern worship music!   Payden: I guess for me question number one. I mean, so you grew up in Hawaii. How long were you there?   Austin: So I was born and raised in Maui, Hawaii. And I lived there for 17 years. Just until I graduated high school.   Payden: That’s a lot longer than I thought.    Austin: Yeah. My whole childhood.   Payden: Yeah, and then into your pivotal teen years.   Austin: Yeah. 100%. After high school I moved to Dallas. I lived there for three years and then I've been in Nashville for 11 years now.   Payden - So growing up in Hawaii until you were 17. Like that's wild. What was the music scene in Hawaii like?    Austin: The music scene is mostly reggae or, like island style reggae which would be like local to Hawaii, we call it roots, which is completely different from roots music in you know, the states like the lower 48. Roots music is like a version of reggae that is specific to the island. It sounds very similar. It's just kind of sung a little bit differently. And so there's reggae and then there's kind of like traditional Hawaiian slack key music, or like, choir type music, in Hawaiian. But other than that there really isn't a music scene. There was a group of us, a very small group of us kids who found our way to rock and roll in junior high and high school and I was in a couple of bands with some of my friends. And there was like one show a year that a church would put on that was the one rock show. And it was always the same band that headlined and you were lucky if your little local band got to open for them because that was the only time you were gonna get to see rock music happen. And so yeah, it was very small. And honestly, you didn't really fit in if you liked that kind of music. But yeah, the music scene was sad. And I think that's why as a kid, I knew very early on that I w