Wicked Monk

The name given to me by my music and art loving parents is Adam Henry. I've been creating music for about 10 years, and have been creating art for as long as I could hold a pencil. I chose to focus on music at an early age, it being the first thing I actually wanted to "do".. as society is so quick to tell us that we need to find that thing we want to be and do. Fast forward after first bands, music school, more bands and another band, and here we are: I am totally in love with the free expression that comes with being a singer/songwriter. I am free to create my chords and melodies and lyrics autonomously and filter-free. The more this process has continued, the more I am naturally drawn to creating something outside of myself.. my lyrical content has focused more and more on universal truths that are more applicable to what goes into the human experience and less and less about my personal journal. There is a desire to help. This is why, upon releasing my latest demo, it was pure magic when the moniker was chosen. If I could go by a name other than by own, Wicked Monk sums up what I have to say: This world is pure magic. Our faith in that is detrimental to our thriving in this life. Indeed, there is an on-going push towards the spiritual among our generation, and my goal as an artist is to help other artists and fellow people alike in opening up to this vast network of forces and realizations that may amount to some clarity, some understanding and some kind of freedom from these places. Ergo: Monk. Wicked? Because I love the raw and gritty. The only thing that keeps me from running off into the hills to pursue monkhood is this love for the sexy, provocative, the mind-altering, dirty world we are entrenched in, especially among those who choose the absurd and equally beautiful pursuit of art. It's our job to make sense of things and express it in a way that words cannot. As a song writer, it is my job to try and sum it up with words with the aid of melody and a certain sense of vulnerability.. it takes' a lot to try and speak to an audience, and I'll keep trying to not only do that, but do the work necessary to continue to convey original ideas to you, universal feelings and thoughts to you, the compulsive urge to dance to you, love, and, potentially most importantly, the urge to create art of your own TO YOU. Stay here.