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uniting factor. Before long, Sunny and the Black Pack had more than doubled in size. The band has seven members. “We are very much a family,” Promyotin said. “We are lucky to have each other.” Promyotin said the group plays every kind of music, seeing it like a paint palette full of color. “When you mush them all together and mix them up, you get close to color black,” he said. “It’s a culmination of different colors, flavors, tints and hues.” He discovered music in his teens, during a particularly rough patch with his family.“I was not having a good time with life. I was struggling to find my place in the world,”he said. As he walked to school, he kept hearing the same sound in his head. Promyotin, who had never played piano, found the music room at school, locked himself in the piano room and within 15 minutes, had his first song. That paved the way for him to write more than 300 songs the next year. He went professional at 17. He was working at the Monterey Jazz Festival at 18. Asking Promyotin to describe the band’s sound is the million-dollar question, he said. One clue lies in the fact Sunny and the Black Pack play the “Sesame Street” theme with their own twist. They also do the “Ghostbusters” theme. “But it doesn’t sound like ‘Ghostbusters,’” Promyotin said. “We are a weird mixture of new and old sound,” he said. There’s old classic melody with classic harmonies and backup. “We are literally a combo of poultry soul,” Promyotin said, adding there’s some jazz and funk in there, too. Promyotin and his bandmates also write and produce music. Jake Stockley serves as business manager. “He makes my life a lot easier,”
The humble beginnings of Sunny and the Black Pack began in 2015 with Srawat “Sunny” Promyotin and father and son, Jo and Jake Stockley. The younger Stockley and Promyotin were longtime musical pals who had worked together, but not in a band setting. The Stockleys and Promyotin began playing live and started recruiting fellow friends and musicians to join them. A love of music was the
Sunny and The Black Pack specialize in unique renditions of popular songs as well as radio-ready originals. Sunny’s creativity and masterful piano skills give him the tools to create incredible arrangements that breathe new life into classic songs, setting a standard with their “modern day Ray Charles” sound.
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