This Week We Feature Young Professional Brent D. R. Hoyte
Mr Brent Dwayne Robert Hoyte is a 20-year-old man who is deeply rooted in the values and principles of the Holy Bible, a position that sees him striving only to live for God amidst the challenges youth his age find it hard to wade their way through.
Key to his success so far is the fact that Mr Hoyte is surrounded by a well rooted group of people he calls family; his father Pastor Wayne Robert Hoyte, mother Mrs Joyclyn Doreen Hoyte and two siblings, one younger and one older.
He is the middle child in the family and said it makes him feel well protected as his siblings and parents all have eyes fixed on him. “I am in a position also where every time I look around I see my family. It’s a situation where we all look out for each other,” he told Virgin Islands News Online.
There is something that is very unusual and special about our Young Professional; his career path, passion and hobby are all in one capsule with one blend of formula and that is music. “I love music, I breathe, live, feel music. Music is my life, take away my music is putting me six feet underground, music is my everything,” he stressed.
Today, Mr Brent D. R. Hoyte is a full time music teacher at the Elmore Stoutt High School and part time music teacher at Harrigan’s Music School and Home Grown Studio. His ambition is to one day own his studio to the standard of producing his own record labels and CDs.
“Music takes me to a place where no one else can go, it’s my inspiration, it’s in my meditation, it’s my refuge in time when I am feeling stressed or challenged in some way. I find solace in music,” he said.
Mr Hoyte said he is still at the very budding stages of his career and while his ambition is to go on to further his studies in conjunction with his career path, he said having the hands on experience in the world of work will place him in good stead when the time is ripe for him to move on to face the books again.
He said it was not a difficult challenge in deciding a career path as from the very tender age of three he was a child that would pull out his parents’ pots and pans, spoons and forks to create music. “I play almost every musical instrument, from small that was in me.”
Our young professional added that he strongly feels that a lot of his father’s qualities were rubbed off on him from that early stage. “I am not living my father’s dream, I am every bit of me and what I love but somehow that’s the very same thing you can say of my father.”
After starting out at home with the household utensils, Mr Hoyte took his passion for music in the walls of the church, a place of sweet fellowship that speaks to his life. “My entire being is surrounded by the love of God and music.”
He note that many of the big musicians would speak of starting out in church and branching off into the wider money-making world of music. “There are promising money making ventures in the music industry in the Christian realm and I am staying right there. I will one day make it really big without giving up or turning from my roots in Christ, I will remain in the Christian realm. I don’t want to go out there to experience the world, I live in the world, I see what it has to offer and that’s good enough for me.”
Mr Hoyte is associated with a number of bands including 2nd Degree band, High frequency BVI Band, Men of Standard in Christ and is the music director for local gospel artiste Deanna Wattley.
Thus far he rightfully takes the credit as the producer of the CD ‘Ishika Charles’ and a quick Google check would show it is among the top leading fast selling gospel CD on the market internationally.
He prides himself with the honour of having played on stage before a massive audience for the famous gospel singer Donnie McClurkin among others.
Our Young Professional said he strongly feels that one of his callings in life is to be an inspiration to others. He said that belief has caused him to be among a group of music teachers who dedicate their time to spending extra hours with youth, especially young men, after school. “There are so many challenges our young men are facing out there and in most cases the guidance and positive influences are not there for them so we try to fill a certain gap.”
He said that they fill the gap to the best of their ability by absorbing the time between the official school dismissal time and the time when most parents would have completed their day’s work on their jobs.
“That time is when a lot of trouble happens so we try to hold them between that time. When they would have left us is for them to head home as the parents should be heading home too,” Hoyte explained.
The young man said if there is any advice that he can give to youths it would be that they take advantage of staying in school, hold on to the love of God and to follow their dreams. “Some things are better said than done, but we all have that inner strength to do what we are supposed to do and it’s just for you to find it and hold on to it,” said our young professional for this week, Mr Brent D. R. Hoyte.
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And let me thank god for his presence in the life of this young gentleman who chose the right path to serve god and to serve his country and his people:
And let me thank the to be published in this free and democratic territory of the BVI:
Most importantly from a social perspective,let me congratulate the parents of young mr hoyte for their contribution to society and for raising a child who kept out of the court-house,because ever so often,we read on the news about young people in trouble with law and heading to prison.
Long live the BVI-May the good-lord cotinue to watch over and protect the good citizens and residents of this blessed lands-BVI