Enrique Jesus Hernandez has been making waves in LA’s burgeoning downtown/eastside performance art scenes for a while now. Sporting a curly blonde coif, the Spanish-Harlem born singer and producer transforms each performance space – building a world out of oftentimes-sparse surroundings.

Today the singer puts that wide-eyed creativity on display via music video “The Way”. It’s a world of its own, littered with blood and debris, a wildly inventive and very windy bomb shelter.

It’s the final track of Hernandez’ _Hunger City EP, a collection of songs about domestic abuse and violence. He’s the son of an abused single mother; a mother who managed to instill joy and a love of pop-culture in him in impossibly bleak times.

…an undeniable, soaring voice.

This video will move you. Hernandez is a master of set design and arch creativity, talents he pairs with an undeniable, soaring voice. He bounces from a Sam Cooke soul belt to a withered Oberstian crackle with ease and affect.

The self-directed video is all tension and release, close-up shots of stretched muscle followed by balletic leaps and wrung-out emotion. It’s his fifth video in under a year, and if the fabulous ‘The Way’ is any indication, he’s only getting more audacious.

Check out “The Way” below.

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