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Local Music Mondays is a weekly segment produced by WUKY's DeBraun Thomas. Check here for archived episodes, extended interviews, and extras.

Local Music Monday: David 'Chill' Napier

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This week on Local Music Monday, WUKY’s DeBraun Thomas features one of the most soulful voices in Lexington.

David Napier is a native of Harrodsburg who moved to Lexington in 2010 and since has been a staple in the local music scene. Napier, who is known by many as Big Chill, got his start singing and playing drums in the church. Napier spent time playing with bands in Bowling Green before moving to Lexington and says the music community that Lexington has was a refreshing change for him to see.

“The coolest part about finding out about music when you’re really just starting to play live is seeing not how fans relate to an artist, but how everybody just becomes like this family, this collected group of beings who work really well in the music community together and that’s probably the coolest part about Lexington that I’ve seen, there is no separation there, it’s all love and everybody just loves music.”

Napier currently plays with 3 different groups all while juggling a regular work schedule. He splits his time with Driftwood Gypsy, the Baja Yetis and more recently Oh My Me. Napier says his schedule only helps fuel his passion for music and says he’s living his life the best way he can.

“Got no main mantra for that, it’s just more livin, I mean you live the music you play, when you live the music you play, you love the music you play, and you live the life, love the life you live.”

David “Chill” Napier and Oh My Me will be playing at Al’s Bar on August 15th. More information Napier and his projects can be found on facebook.

DeBraun Thomas fell in love with radio at a young age but only had interest in working in radio after learning Funk musician Sly Stone got his start in radio. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Thomas moved to Lexington in 2009 to attend the University of Kentucky and pursue a career in radio. Thomas joined WRFL in 2009 and through the UK school of Journalism, Thomas had 2 features air on WUKY. In October of 2012, Thomas began interning at WUKY and produced the Unghosting of Medgar Evers. In August of 2013 Thomas became a staff member at WUKY and since that time, Thomas regularly produces the weekly segment Local Music Mondays which highlights local musicians in Lexington. Thomas hosts the Crunkadelic Funk Show which airs Saturday nights at 9pm and also produced a documentary on the 50th anniversary of the March on Frankfort. In addition to producing and hosting a radio show, Thomas also explores his other passion as a musician in Lexington.
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