Meet Pace Randolph | Singer, Songwriter & Entertainer

We had the good fortune of connecting with Pace Randolph and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Pace, what do you attribute your success to?
As someone who still feels like they have a long way to go before they can honestly describe themselves as ‘successful’, I’m going to answer this with the most important factor that changed me from being someone who spent years dreaming and not getting any closer, to someone who is now well on the way to pursuing the life they’ve always wanted.

The biggest thing that has changed is making the decision to make more decisions. More specifically, becoming okay with the fact that every decision is imperfect because we will always have limited information. Basically, as cheesy as it sounds, I saw a Gary Vee video on YouTube that just hit me at the right time.

Up until this point I had been sitting on songs for years, trying to get the mix ‘just right’ or re recording them over and over because they never sounded as good as what was on the radio. Which of course it was never going to. Most artists (myself included) fall into this trap and end up never learning from the valuable mistakes along the way, so their songs just gather dust in their hard drives and they dine out on their ‘potential’ for the rest of their lives.

The beauty of this shift for me was that it occurred at the same time as TikTok was taking off in early 2020. In celebration of my epiphany, I set myself a challenge to write one song every day and record a video of my playing it and post it on TikTok. I ended up doing this every day for two months and started to build myself a following just by sharing my imperfect little demos. This built my confidence and the skill of content creation, which began to slowly build an audience across the world for my music. In addition, I was able to seriously develop songwriting chops as I had constant feedback and was able to focus on the next days song, rather than dwell on how good or bad the previous day’s had been.

Since then it’s just been a matter of fine tuning my sound, engaging genuinely with my audience, responding to every comment with love and keeping myself disciplined enough to ride out the peaks and troughs of trying to get attention through social media.

Please tell us more about your work. We’d love to hear what sets you apart from others, what you are most proud of or excited about. How did you get to where you are today professionally. Was it easy? If not, how did you overcome the challenges? What are the lessons you’ve learned along the way. What do you want the world to know about you or your brand and story?
I suppose the biggest thing that defines me as an artist is my work with The Choir Imperfect, which is also the thing I’m most proud of. It’s essentially a crowd sourced choir that I created to sing with me on my releases. The idea came about from needing a choir for one of my songs ‘Push You Further’. Not usually the easiest thing to do with no money from your bedroom during covid, but I figured if I tried putting the idea out there on TikTok with instructions that were easy enough to follow, then people might want to get involved and help me out.

As it happened, hundreds of people jumped on the idea and all added their voices to the song, so I spent the next week downloading their videos one by one, converting them to mp3s and then arranging all the voices into a massive choir on my poor, overheating 2012 Macbook Air. I remember crying in my room when I had finally put the choir together and listened back to it for the first time. I just couldn’t help but thinking about all the wildly different people from all over the world that I had watched sing my song on TIkTok, just to be a part of something I had created.

I gave this choir a name, ‘The Choir Imperfect’, and set them up with their own Spotify artists page and decided that I was going to involve my fans and followers as much as possible in my project. I love the idea of being able to share my platform with people who maybe aren’t confident enough to release their own music, or just love the idea of being able to be a part of creating something that they can listen to for the rest of their lives and I suppose there’s always the chance that the song they are singing on becomes a hit and they can milk that at dinner parties forever.

My ultimate goal is to share 100,000 voices through my music and so far there have been around 1500 people involved across 4 songs, most notably for ‘From Now On’, which features almost 500 absolute legends. Moving forward I’ll be recording new choir parts for upcoming songs with the crowd at every live show, so the number will just keep exponentially growing and I’m confident we’ll get there one day!

Together with my manager Rico, we’ve got some big plans for the choir this year, so stay tuned and if you’ve ever fancied the idea of having your voice on an official release, join me in the next one. I’ll be announcing it soon enough.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
Ooooh okay this is going to expose me as a workaholic, because I don’t get out that much haha.

Let’s see…

As cheesy as it might be, you really do have to check out Bondi Beach and have a cheeky Spritz on the rooftop of Icebergs, looking over the ocean. Preferably at sunset!

If you’ve got the budget, Sydney has literally the best harbour in the world so I’d try to call in a few favours and get us a day on someone’s boat. A little fishing, a little swimming, a lot of sunscreen and then about 2kgs fresh prawns for dinner.

If you’re here for a week then you definitely have to get out of the city and visit the Royal National Park. We’d head to Wattamolla and jump off the waterfall into the tidal river and spend the day on the beach.

On Sunday we’d have Yumcha, which is the most amazing Chinese restaurant experience where they just walking around the room with trolleys full of food in bamboo steam pots and you just take what you want. It’s kinda like an airplane, but the food is amazing and the flight attendants go around in circles.

After that we’d head to a bowling club, because I’m not sure you’ve really experienced Australian culture until you’ve played a few rounds of barefoot lawn bowls in the sun with some classic rock blaring and a few ice cold beers in the belly.

If you’re looking at night life then it’s gotta be Oxford Street for me. Some whiskey apples with a side of peanuts at Shady Pines, the only ‘saloon’ style bar in Sydney, then probably head to one of the many nearby gay clubs, because let’s face it, they know how to party.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
I think number one here is always going to be my folks, who somehow manage to be my biggest fans while also, and perhaps more importantly, my biggest critics. To my ‘Aussie Creatives’ crew who are the most inspiring group of like minded and motivational content creators a boy could ask for. To my partner, Annie, for believing me in a way I didn’t know was possible. To my housemate and partner in crime, Byron Dempsey, for riding this wave with me every day. My manager Rico deserves a shoutout for putting my head in the stars while keeping my feet very firmly on the ground. Last, but not least, to every single beautiful bastard in The Choir Imperfect, who inspire me to keep going on a daily basis.

Website: www.pacerandolph.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/pacerandolph

Facebook: www.facebook.com/pacerandolphmusic

Youtube: www.youtube.com/c/pacerandolph

Other: www.tiktok.com/@pacerandolph

Image Credits
Personal Photo: Alex Shute Photos without hat: Caitlyn Phanith Photos with hat and pulling hair back: Andii Clements