Today we’d like to introduce you to Frzy.
Hi Frzy, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
Harvey “Frzy” Daniels is a 2018 Emmy Award winner for his collaboration with WQED/PBS on his hip-hop version of Mr. Roger’s “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” and on November 1, 2023, simultaneously released his second and third albums titled Popularity and Success. Frzy is a member of the Recording Academy (which bestows the annual Grammy Awards) and was previously Governor of the Board for the Philadelphia Chapter of the Recording Academy. Frzy’s hit song “Gold In It” produced by Mayce and Grammy award Winning producer D-Roy made it onto the Grammys Apple Music Playlist while also becoming the Pittsburgh Steelers official song. Playing over the legendary Acrisure Stadium speakers every touchdown but also playing on Monday Night Football. The City of Pittsburgh was inspired to officially declare January 11, 2018, as “Frzy Day.’ Since then, Frzy has become a 2020 Guinness World Record holder for longest freestyle rap at 31 hours, the Smiley Face Cookie at Eat ‘N Park, and has had a mural created in his likeness by famous muralist, Jeremy Raymer. Frzy also serves on the Board of Directors of The Lindsay Theater, all this while being the face of Steve Madden’s “Self Made” Campaign & Subway Sandwich’s Subway Melt Sandwich. Which you can see in his national commercial with the iconic sandwich brand. He has helped to raise more than one million dollars for charities and in May 2023 helped to increase diversity and inclusion awareness via the successful “Books to Bars” campaign with the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. He collaborated on a historic one-night concert with the Pittsburgh Symphony at Heinz Hall on November 8, 2023, which is the world premiere of an orchestration of the nationally known rapper’s new album, Success. He was honored in City Paper’s People of the Year issue as Musician of the Year 2023 for “taking his craft to new audiences and new heights.” In Fall 2024 Frzy headlined at the epic America250PA national Convening of the States and Partners in Philadelphia, PA and was honored to lecture and perform at TEDxPittsburgh. Recently Frzy headlined the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s First Night 2025 New Years Performance for 22,000 people. Frzy’s ( Got Milk ) Frzy Day campaign entitled “Milking It” teamed up with legendary Dairy Company “Turner’s Dairy” and The Pittsburgh Public School System to raise $2,500 for the Pittsburgh Community Food Bank to provide over 10,000 meals.
Frzy has just returned to Pittsburgh from the 2026 Grammy Awards in LA. Frzy was hand picked by America 250 PA & Governor Shapiro to open the America 250 PA Concert Series finale in Pittsburgh along side Nelly and Third Eye Blind to a ground of 20,000 people.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
They say it takes 10 years to become an overnight success and I have been doing it longer than that lol. So in other people yes it may have come off smoothly but in this business perception is reality. I have worked harder than I knew I could. And have been blessed more than I thought I deserved. For me the best part of this journey have been the reactions promised by practice. The awards promised by consistency and the understanding of the difference between Popularity and Success. So to answer your question directly, it’s been smooth like chunky peanut butter but I can promise it is the best pb&j you’ve ever tasted. lol I guess you can say that’s what success taste like.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
Some may consider me the most famous rapper you’ve never heard of before. I am proud of the resume I’ve built and it’s so hard to pick a favorite. Being called up by WQED/PBS to personally celebrate Mr. Rogers 50 year anniversary was such an honor and for a Pittsburgh boy a dream come true. Once they gave me the green light to remix his song now entitled “It’s a Beautiful Day” I jumped at the chance to celebrate history. Not knowing we were about to make history of our own. The song and performance won a Emmy Award making me the 3rd rapper in history to ever win a Emmy Award. Out of everything I’ve done that sits in my heart. I have had the opportunity to work with some amazing people and I am so grateful that who I’ve become makes people want to work next to me.
What makes you happy?
What makes me happy is connecting with people. Sharing experiences and stories, making everyone feel seen and heard. Lifting up and acknowledge their humanity and purpose. Treating them how I would like to be treated but also proving to them that happiness and love and respect is not transactional. Putting kindness into the world on purpose. Using my power and voice to make people more powerful. I am just trying to teach everyone that they are born a star but deserve to be called a sun.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://Frzy.music
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frzy
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialFrzy
- Other: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/frzy/445740162
