Murders to Music: Crime Scene to Music Scene (Streamline Events and Entertainment)
Come on a ride along with a Veteran Homicide Detective as the twists and turns of the job suddenly end his career and nearly his life; discover how something wonderful is born out of the Darkness. Embark on the journey from helping people on their worst days, to bringing life, excitement and smiles on their best days.
Murders to Music: Crime Scene to Music Scene (Streamline Events and Entertainment)
SnapShot: "We Build the Soundtrack to Love"
Life takes unexpected turns. After spending nearly eleven years handling homicide cases, child abuse investigations, and crime scene processing, I've found myself in an entirely new world—crafting unforgettable wedding experiences as the owner of Streamline Events and Entertainment.
My passion for music has always run parallel to my law enforcement career. From playing drums before crowds of thousands to DJing weddings since I was just sixteen, music remained my creative outlet while I navigated the emotional challenges of detective work. What most people don't understand about professional wedding DJing is that it requires the same level of attention to detail and people management skills that solving cases demands. When someone reduces the art to "playing a playlist and eating free food," they miss the intricate orchestration happening behind the scenes.
The beautiful irony isn't lost on me—I've gone from being present during people's darkest moments to creating their brightest memories. Every wedding represents a gathering of people who will likely never all be in the same room again, making it my responsibility to ensure that one-time experience reaches its full potential. From the moment guests arrive (hearing carefully selected music even in the parking lot) to their departure, I create a musical journey that builds throughout the evening. My approach includes personal meetings with couples, customized music progression, constant crowd reading, and seamless transitions between ceremonial moments and celebration.
After years where every phone call meant another tragedy, I now use those same skills—the careful observation, the attention to detail, the ability to manage complex situations—to produce the soundtrack that begins a couple's life together. What could be more rewarding than that? Follow along as I continue sharing stories from both sides of my Murders to Music journey, and consider how your own skills might translate to unexpected places.
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So welcome back to a Murders to Music Snapshot. So I want to talk a little bit about something different today that I typically don't talk about on these, and that is more of the music side of the house, right? So it's Murders to Music and you know a lot about the murder side of my life, but what you don't know about is very much about the music side of my life. So as I have transitioned out of law enforcement, it has given me time to continue a passion that I've had my entire life and entire career, and that is music. Whether it's playing music, I play drums and I sing. So whether it's performing in bands, entertaining people on a stage, playing drums for somebody else, I've played drums in front of 25,000 people before and I've played small venues with 25 people. So I mean I've got a wide range of experience in that music world.
Speaker 1:One of the things I started doing when I was 16 years old was DJing. I DJed from about 16 to 19, and I DJed in both Alaska and Arizona, and what I specialized it back in in those days was weddings. At 16 years old, I was DJing a ton of weddings, and the DJing a wedding is not just putting on a playlist. It's changed a little bit now, but at that time you're emceeing, you're herding the cats from point A to point B to point C, you're making sure everybody knows what's going on. You're into the formal introductions the toast, the garter, the bouquet, all that stuff Plus. You're playing that music and you're reading the crowd and you're reading what's going to keep them on the dance floor once you get to that part of the evening. So it's more than just you know throwing on a playlist, sitting back and eating the food. I went about a year ago, year and a half ago, I went on a fishing trip with some people from work and one of the guys there's like, yeah, I DJ before I DJ at a wedding. He's like you know, they paid me 500 bucks, I put on a playlist, a Spotify list, I eat their food and uh, it was pretty easy stuff.
Speaker 1:And that's just so devastating when I hear people say that and it's so um, that's the word I'm looking for Insulting when I hear people say that because doing murders and homicides and child abuse and all the stuff that really matters, right, doing that for so long. I sunk so much time and energy into that and learning the details, because the devil is in the details and you have to be right 100% of the time. If you're not, then people can die and if not, then people don't get validated. So attention to details was super important for me in that world. But doing that, my every day was somebody else's worst day. Every time the phone rang, it was another dead body, it was another broken baby, it was another visit to the hospital, visit to the morgue or some crime scene that I needed to go process, and that was every single day for almost 11 years.
Speaker 1:Well, in doing that it finally took its toll, but you got to find the silver lining in everything that you do. So the silver lining for me was honing my attention to detail skills, my ability to manage people, to manage scenes, manage groups and then coming out of law enforcement. It gave me the opportunity and time and bandwidth to open up my business, which is called Streamline Events and Entertainment, and we do DJing and live music for weddings and corporate events. And we do DJing and live music for weddings and corporate events. So now I get to take all those skills from when I was the homicide detective and everything I've been honing over the years and my people skills and communication. Now I get to use them for people's weddings and big corporate events. But mostly weddings is what we do, and we do high end weddings. So I get to take all that stuff that I learned on people's darkest days and literally use it for them on their brightest days. Instead of being the bad memory of the past, I am the, the memory. You know. Nobody remembers what you feed them at a wedding. Nobody remembers the braised salmon or the you know roasted duck or whatever it is that people are eating at weddings these days. Nobody remembers that. What they remember is Is the way that wedding made them feel, the way that they felt in the moment that they were there, and that is what I get to specialize in. That is why it's so cool to be doing what I'm doing now on the music side of the murders to music when I do weddings.
Speaker 1:When I first meet my client, I we talk to them Maybe, say it's at a wedding show, we'll talk at the wedding show. We'll follow up over a couple of emails. It's at a wedding show, we'll talk at the wedding show. We'll follow up over a couple of emails. We do a zoom meeting, talk about all of the, all of the things that I offer and how it may solve the problems that they have and maybe they don't even know they have. But we talk about that once they book.
Speaker 1:Then I start to get into know them and I go through a very in-depth onboarding process with lots of questions. But we go to a happy hour, get to know each other on happy hour. I get to know them on a personal level, which is super cool, and the happy hour is something that I pay for. But I want to get to know them. So when I go to their event it's not just a sterile interaction, it's not just somebody checking songs off a list or checking a box or a voice you've never heard. Now I can bring these personal things, these little anecdotes, these little funny stories, comments, names, whatever it may be, into that environment and it just makes everybody feel like friends and family that are there.
Speaker 1:I pay for the happy hour but, man, it pays dividends on the day of the wedding and while I'm not interviewing them like I would in an interview room, I'm definitely making notes and listening and hearing what they're saying and it's the little things they're not saying that I'm picking up on. You know, just like I did before, I'm taking all those notes down. We get to know each other. I get to know how they met. I get to know their story. That way it's a little personal. So then the next thing we do is we'll do the event, you know, a final meeting and then the event. And at that event I get to take all that stuff that I've learned about them, just like that entire investigation that I used to do. All the stuff and all the pieces I've put together over the last six months of planning. I get to take and I get to execute on the day of. But when we execute we're not just hitting a playlist, because I'm such an anal, retentive guy and the attention to detail is so important.
Speaker 1:I make sure that everything, from the moment the guests get out of their car, they hear music in the parking lot, because that is where their experience is starting. This is going to be an experience. It's going to be a journey. We're going to start off with soft music. We're going into the ceremony. It's going to be soft, the formalities of the ceremony, but then cocktail. We're going to step it up just a little bit. As we step it up, the music can get just a little bit louder. Then, after we get done with the cocktail hour, we're going to dinner. Now at dinner we're going to sample different kinds of music and I'm going to watch that crowd to see what it is they're bopping to, what is their head moving to, what are they dancing to, what are they singing along with? That tells me what I'm going to play for the rest of the night.
Speaker 1:Now we get through the formalities. We do the MCs. I make sure that everybody in the house knows who I am and that I'm the guy that's going to help them with ever problems they have, whether it's a music request or whether it's I need a ride home because I've been drinking too much. Whatever it may be, I'm going to be the guy to help them with that. Then we get to the dancing portion of the night. Dancing portion of the night. I've taken everything that I've learned from this crowd over the last three or four hours. Now I'm putting it into an hour and a half set on the dance floor. I'm taking into consideration all the stuff that the couple wants their must plays, their do not plays.
Speaker 1:I'm reading that crowd and I'm keeping them out there and I'm making everybody feel like they're a part of it. When requests come in, boom, I get them out for them. We get that entire thing. We hype up the crowd, we make them, we send the couple off with just a great grand exit. There's literally fireworks. Sometimes it's just an amazing event.
Speaker 1:Everybody has felt like they're a part of this event. Then, when they walk to their cars, guess what's in the parking lot? That same hype music. Now it's hype music in the parking lot. They can hear it. The last thing they hear before they get in their car is the same music they were hearing on the dance floor. So from start to finish, they show up. They hear music. It's soft. The music progresses throughout the night. The experience progresses throughout the night. Everybody gets more excited throughout the night. Towards the end of the night they're dancing and bopping on the dance floor. They have the grand exit. Everybody's feeling good, their energy's up, they're excited, they're laughing, they're having a great time. Hopefully they haven't drank too much. They get in their cars. The last thing they hear is the music from the event and they go on their way. That is the key to a successful event.
Speaker 1:We produce the soundtrack of that couple's wedding. We literally produce the soundtrack that starts their life off together and we throw the most epic party that these people will ever throw. The people that go to the wedding are the friends and family, distinguished guests of both sides of the family. These are people that will never be at the same place at the same time ever again. So therefore, we have one opportunity to knock this out of the park.
Speaker 1:That is the passion that I have in doing weddings. That is why I'm doing what I do. What's funny about this is when I was a cop, I thought weddings like I would rather go to a funeral than a wedding. I had nothing to do with weddings and it's so cool how God put it in my life, when I was 16, 17, 18, 19 years old, took a momentary pause, built up my skills, my entertaining, and now I get to use it on the back end of life and I get to take all the good stuff that he gave me in law enforcement and now use it to absolutely make the most epic party for the most epic people on their most epic day. That is why I do what I do. That is the benefits and pleasure and joy and passion that I get for helping people. I love it, love it, love it. Ladies and gentlemen, that is a Murders to Music snapshot.
