In a Nashville home studio built from salvaged wood, thrifted fabric, and pure resolve, Goldy Locks is proving that real power in music isn’t bought—it’s built. With The Goldy lockS Band, she’s created a closed-loop creative ecosystem where every element is made by hand: the costumes, the stage sets, the video sets—and even the recordings, crafted across their own studios.
From Paisley Park to a DIY standard
Goldy’s blueprint began at Prince’s Paisley Park, where she stitched performance pieces from scraps, learning to see potential where others saw waste. That scrappy vision later powered her work in professional wrestling, where she wrote and performed original entrance themes—sonic biographies that taught her to tailor sound the way she tailored fabric.
“When you’re working with scraps, you learn to see potential where others see waste.”
The band that builds everything
The Goldy lockS Band runs like a maker’s guild.
Rod Saylor—drummer and music director—drives the live engine and creative direction.
Johnny Oro—guitarist—sharpens riffs into hooks and co-writes every track.
Wandly Bala—bass player in Brazil—produces and polishes from his own studio.
Each member maintains their own recording studio, trading stems across time zones and stitching songs together with the same DIY rigor they bring to wardrobe and set design. The band’s stages are constructed from reclaimed materials; their music video backdrops are built in warehouses and transformed spaces; and their press photos are shot by Goldy herself, remote in hand, through her Nashville photography house The Factory Photography.
That self-reliance caught the eye of TLC, landing Goldy features on “Cheapskates” and “Call in the Cheapskates.” The takeaway wasn’t frugality—it was proof: big visions don’t need big budgets, just big imagination.
Art as activism: Buy The Record, Not The Bod
Frustrated by an industry that over-consumes women’s bodies and undervalues their talent, Goldy launched “Buy The Record, Not The Bod.” In the campaign’s stark imagery, she appears nude but shielded by her music—forcing a confrontation with the culture that rewards exposure over excellence. The companion movement, Only Talent, doubles down on the message: pay for the art, not the algorithm. #BuyTheRecordNotTheBod #OnlyTalent
A New York–caliber statement piece
For a photo concept inspired by a New York editorial lens, Goldy staged a scene in an Italian kitchen—a place of appetite, mess, and family—then asked the question: If a platter of spaghetti stops your scroll, will a record make you buy? It’s messy, camp, and unapologetically true—an image about value, not voyeurism.
Photography as power
Goldy’s studio—The Factory Photography by Goldy Locks—has captured Nashville and Hollywood names including Florida Georgia Line, Darius Rucker, Colt Ford, Chase Matthew, Upchurch, Bryan Martin, Chris Young, Aaron Lewis, Cam, Sick Puppies, Pop Evil, Lorrie Morgan, and the late Steve Harwell. She also leads the acclaimed 40 Over 40 Portrait Series, giving women 40–99 a full day of glam, pro makeup, posing, and portraits, then exhibiting their images at a public gala. Proceeds support the YWCA, offering a safer path for women escaping domestic violence—an on-the-ground extension of Only Talent’s values.
The voice behind the vision
Beyond the stage and the lens, Goldy hosts the successful podcast “Goldy’s Closet,” available on all streaming platforms—a candid, craft-forward space where creativity, survival, and discipline meet.
In a culture addicted to shortcuts, Goldy and her band choose the long way—the handmade way. They sew the costumes. They build the sets. They design the shots. They record in their own studios. And they ask the world to back what truly matters:
