SHAZAM ON RECORDING

I first began creating audiobooks in 2015-2016 on YouTube. I had listened to them since I was very young and just felt that I was far more talented than most narrators. This ended up being true, as multiple best-selling audiobooks by Shazam Watkins can now testify.

I found a severe lack of immersion, consummate professionalism, and sinister force of belief in the peons profaning this sacred work. As a narrator, my task is to bring to life the words of the author in a unique way. To cause the listener to believe that I believe what I am saying beyond a shadow of a doubt. The audiobook is not the book, and the book is not the audiobook. These are siblings or comrades, like the different aspects of our Lord in the Holy Trinity.

I refuse to record books that I do not particularly like or believe in. I refuse to work with authors who do not have belief in themselves. Lack of belief, investment, and strong conviction make for lusterless recordings, mopey authors, and unsuccessful audiobooks. The goal of any book, in many ways, should be to sell more books. My goal as a narrator is to so powerfully perform an audiobook that the listener must then immediately go purchase the physical book. That or even prefer the audiobook version to the physical copy. Either way, it is a glorious victory.

If you’ve purchased any of my audiobooks, I would like to thank you for supporting my work and the work of the authors. It may sound ridiculous, but I have sacrificed a good deal to bring these works to you. It is continually humbling to see what God has done for people through my performances, and it is a blessing to work with such talented writers. Ascend, ascend, you must ascend. All of the glory be to God Almighty.