tonight we hear from hip hop artist jared pellerin, who's better known by his stage name pell, on how beauty can be born of hardship and what he discovers making music he calls "experimental soul." sometimes i feel like a true masterpiece is made from making a mistake beautiful. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i first started making music when i was around 16 in jackson, mississippi, because i was forced to move there after hurricane katrina with my brother and mother. i remember making friends by making music because being in a new social situation, it's always a good thing to be able to identify yourself with something, and i identified myself as an artist. i have a lot of musical influences -- kanye west, farrell williams, stevie wonder. i listen to stevie when i feel like i'm in love or i feel like i want to do better in the world because there's a lot of positivity in his music. i would describe my music as experimental soul, and some of the best music to me is that that comes out of accident. maybe that one drum hit that didn't sound right, if left in there and mixed the perfect way can provide the ea