So Where To Today?

Born in St. Louis, Ken Ford lived in Detroit, Michigan, before his parents moved with their only child to make their permanent home in Atlanta, Georgia. With his father as a DJ, he grew up surrounded by the sounds of jazz, blues, and R&B from Earth, Wind & Fire to Al Green and more. After trying numerous instruments, at the age of nine he settled on the violin. In his Atlanta school years, he trained classically on the violin, with training from members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and he became a founding member of the DeKalb Youth Pops Orchestra. Ford also joined the African American Philharmonic Orchestra (AAPO), working his way up to Concert Master. While playing with the AAPO, he performed for Barry White. Growing up hearing different genres, Ford followed his father’s footsteps for a time as a DJ and counts Stevie Wonder and violinists Noel Pointer and Jean-Luc Ponty among his musical influences. At his mother’s urging to pursue education with a backup career plan, he completed a degree in Computer Information Systems. He became a fixture on Atlanta’s music scene and his renown grew. He decided to pursue music full-time after himself unemployed in the middle 1990s.