[2] He is best known for his documentary style conceptual collaboration albums which have incorporated the music of A Tribe Called Quest, The Pharcyde, Fela Kuti, De La Soul, Marvin Gaye, Yasiin Bey (a.k.a.

He is the son of internationally known jazz trumpeter Gary “El Buho” (the Owl) Gazaway from the Ozarks and Brazilian vocalist Tatiana Mindlin.

[citation needed] After graduating from Middle Tennessee State University in 2011, Gazaway started 'The Soul Mates' project, a platform for his conceptual collaborations with his brother, Rickey Mindlin.

Frequently facing legal challenges for his work,[10] Gazaway has lectured on what he describes as "overly restrictive and unconstitutionally long copyright laws.

[27][28] Gazaway's mash-up style remixes are created from a process known as “reverse-engineering,”[29] which heavily relies on a method of deconstructing and re-orchestrating original samples to bridge overlapping themes of two separate musician's catalogues.

[30] The resulting product has been described by the Los Angeles Times as “drawing a different design within a similar framework.”[19] In late 2019, Gazaway released a full album of new material with California R&B singer Xiomara called 1990.