If, in 2013, you had approached Too Many Zooz drummer Dave Parks on the L train platform at 14th Street in New York City, where he was busking with saxophonist Leo Pellegrino and trumpeter Matt Muirhead, and told him that 10 years later, the band would parlay their success as street musicians to play on stages around the world—and at one point even be asked to back Beyoncé on her album Lemonade—Parks would have looked at you and said, “Sounds about right.”

This is not ego. “We came to New York for this experience, to find our way as artists and musicians,” he explains, “We didn’t know how or what it was going to be, but we all came with that attitude that we were going to make moves. We are very fortunate to have had all the things that have happened to us. But we each came to NY for that intended purpose: To win.”