SALISBURY — Jayland Sanders was pretty much destined to be a recording artist and songwriter when he grew up.
“I come from a musical background, it runs throughout my family,” Sanders said.
Sanders, a Salisbury native and relationship banker at F&M Bank, is taking part in the “Charlotte Hornets Music Industry Night” event on March 9 at the Spectrum Center. Sanders will be performing twice before the Hornets go up against the Brooklyn Nets later that day. Sanders said that it is going to be “the biggest and most important performance of my music career.”
“I’m very eager, I’m very excited to say the least,” Sanders said. “I don’t have any nervousness or reservation about the performance. I’m just relaxed because I feel like I’m going out there to be myself and I don’t have to be nervous if I’m going out there and presenting myself and being as authentic as possible.”
Many figures in Sanders’ life motivated him to become a musician. Like him, his father used to rap, his uncle is a professional opera singer, his mother played the violin, and to round it out, his brother was a percussionist.