As we head into Super Bowl Sunday, a Durham native is getting ready to take center stage alongside Usher at the Super Bowl’s halftime show at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
Erick Walls has had a decades-long career in Los Angeles in the music business, winning a Grammy and performing alongside some of the biggest names in the business. But his journey started in the Bull City. Walls grew up in Durham and attended Hillside High School and graduated from Carolina Friends School. He said he learned music with his family while going to church.
“My father was a preacher and gospel singer and some of my earliest memories in life are of being with him going to studios, performances with him,” Walls says.
He says all that hard work paid off getting to fulfill a dream of playing at the Super Bowl.
Wherever I go in the world, Durham is with me.
“It was always a dream to be on big stages and I aspired to be that level of musician to where that was a possibility, so for it to all come full circle, it’s surreal,” he said.