Look closely at this photo...

That's me. Frustrated. Wearing a shirt that says Business Is Booming. And that man in the background pretending to work on my bus? He later stole my batteries. $150 each. Gone.

That moment is this journey in a single frame.

I bought a 1972 Silver Eagle tour bus because I wanted to tour. That was the dream — to take my music on the road, independently, on my own terms. What followed was over a decade of scam mechanics, rust I didn't know was there, storage bills that kept me up at night, and people who told me over and over again to let it go.

I never did.

What kept me going was understanding what this bus actually is. The 1972 Silver Eagle was the tour bus of a generation — the era right after segregation ended, when Black artists could finally move freely, finally build careers, finally fill arenas. Michael Jackson rode buses like this. Selena. NWA. The biggest artists of that era were on this exact model hitting the road and changing music forever.

Years later I was getting work done on my bus by a Youtuber who specializes on restoring vintage buses. He had a 1947 Greyhound bus and I took my grandpa with me to get it worked because he had owned a trucking company since long before I was born. That experience took this bus project to a totally different level of purpose and meaning for me. Watch the video below...

The Revelation

Six years ago, on MLK Day, something happened that changed how I understood everything I was building.

My grandfather was 89 years old when he sat inside a converted 1947 bus — the same make and model as the one he rode as a teenager, when a bus driver moved the colored sign in front of him just for sitting in an empty seat.

He hadn't been near a bus like that since the 1940s and 50s. And there he was, sitting in the front, warm and comfortable, while his granddaughter's bus was being worked on outside.

I never planned any of that nor did I understand the weight of the journey I was embarking on when I bought a bus from a time that represents one of the greatest eras in music history and black excellence.

The Journey

I bought it initially because I came up with a cool studio idea. I stayed because I realized what it was.

People told me to give it up. Said it would take forever. Said it was too old, too much work, too much money for someone in my position.

So I went and got the skills myself.

In the years since I bought the bus in 2014, I completed two six-month carpentry certification programs — one with Habitat for Humanity and one with the Home Builders Institute. I opened up a DIY recording and lesson studio that I unfortunately had to close due to the pandemic. I sharpened my craft as an artist, producer, songwriter and engineer as well as a content creator. Then I started my own handywoman business, working almost exclusively female clients, building real skills with real tools on real jobs, every single one of those jobs teaching me something I needed to finish this bus.

I didn't wait for anyone to build it for me. I became the person who could build it.

That's what this bus has always been about. Not transportation. Proof.

BEFORE

AFTER

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This is before funding and outside help. Versus the vision I see for after I'm able to get assistance. Right now the bus is gutted — mold removed, rusted framing cut away, stripped completely down to its bones. What's left is a foundation waiting to be rebuilt. The remaining work is mechanical — the kind that requires a Silver Eagle specialist who actually knows what they're looking at — and funding to get it road ready. That's the part I haven't been able to do on my own, but no matter what I'll keep trying.

I spent three to four years at Guitar Center — what I call my Guitar Center University — learning live sound, lighting, recording equipment, studio setup and breakdown, and the technical side of music production from the inside out. I've completed two carpentry certification programs. I've studied marketing and content creation under some of the best in the world. For the first time in this journey I can say with complete confidence — once this bus is mechanically sound, there is nothing in the build out I don't know how to do or can't figure out.

And the world finally caught up to the vision.

When I bought this bus over a decade ago, being an independent artist was nearly out of reach for the average person. Content creation wasn't a profession. Podcasting wasn't a business model. There was no Spotify, no DistroKid, no roadmap for building an audience without a label. That world didn't exist yet.

It does now.

The plan is bigger than a tour bus. The roof becomes a stage — set up for a performance, rails in place, PA equipment stored underneath — so I can literally pull up anywhere and produce a full concert with pure profit because I own every piece of it. No venue cut. No middleman. Just the music, the bus, and an audience I've been building from the beginning who already know the story.

Not only is this tour transportation. It's the event. It's the studio. It's the content. It's the tour itself. And you're watching it get built in real time.

The Music

This tour exists first and foremost because I am an artist. A musician, producer, songwriter, and audio engineer who has been building toward this moment for over a decade. Every city I pull into, I'll be performing — independently, on my own terms, with a stage I own and a sound system I operate myself. The music comes first. Everything else grows from it.

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History That Was Never Taught

I have traced my own ancestry back to the 1200s — through the Choctaw Nation, the Cherokee Nation, the Revolutionary War,the George Washington family, the Civil War overall family lines on all 4 sides that predate the United States itself. That research changed how I see every city, every highway, every piece of American land and what it means to be American. On this tour I'll be going deeper — researching the specific histories of every city and state I travel through, documenting the stories that were left out of the textbooks, and creating content that puts those stories back where they belong. Freely available. Permanently archived. Told by someone who has skin in the story.

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Music Made in the Moment & Collaborations

The bus carries a fully equipped studio built by someone who spent years learning the craft from the inside out — songs written on the road, recorded in real time, and released directly into the world with no label and no middleman. And because the studio travels, it creates opportunities that wouldn't exist otherwise — artists in their own cities getting to create with someone who pulled up to their town on a 1972 Silver Eagle, podcast conversations recorded on the road, collaborations born from a shared moment in a place neither artist would have found any other way. The kind of music that could only exist because it was made exactly where it was.

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A Living Documentary

The build out is being documented. The road will be documented. The history, the music, the collaborations, the performances — all of it captured and shared from the beginning so that by the time this bus rolls into its first city, the people watching already feel like they've been on the journey the whole time. Because they have been.

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The Work That Needs to Be Done

The bus is stripped to its frame and ready to be rebuilt — but before the build out can begin, the foundation has to be solid. Right now that means rust removal throughout the frame, welding by a specialist who knows the Silver Eagle structure, mechanical restoration to get it road ready, and parts and materials for the full build out. This is the work that requires funding and the right hands. Everything after that — the carpentry, the studio installation, the interior build — I can do myself.

The estimated need for mechanical work, rust removal, welding, parts, and build out materials is $20,000–$25,000. That is the number that takes this bus from a stripped frame to a fully operational touring vehicle ready to hit the road.

Fans & Supporters

Support through the Ancestral Alignment bundle — it funds this project directly while giving you something that could change how you see your own history.

Also Patreon is where early supporters get exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the build, early music, and a front row seat from the very beginning.

Brands

Travel and hospitality brands get a natural home in a modern Green Book for the independent artist on the road. Music, streaming, and content platforms get early access to an artist and audience that is growing in real time with a story already built in.

THE ARTIST

I'm Anokhi The One.

When I was writing the title I hesitated because I was about to put "the Founder". I come from an entrepreneurial family and it's become trendy to be a business owner and I absolutely am that as well. It's taken much more courage over the years to say simply that I'm an artist an independent music artist, producer, songwriter, and audio engineer. Every song I release — I wrote it, produced it, engineered it, and performed it. No label. No co-writer. No outside producer. Everything you hear is entirely mine. I am the product, the service and the business.

I've been building toward this tour for over a decade. In that time I completed two six-month carpentry certification programs — one with Habitat for Humanity and one with the Home Builders Institute — then started my own handywoman business, taking real jobs and building real skills specifically so I could finish this bus with my own hands.

I spent four years at Guitar Center learning live sound, lighting, recording equipment, and studio setup from the inside out. I later opened up a brick and mortar lesson and recording studio that I unfortunately had to close due to the pandemic. I've studied marketing, content creation, and sales under some of the best in the world. Every skill this project requires I went and got myself with no outside funding. Pulling myself up from my bootstraps so I now know exactly how to invest money and to be resourceful.

While I was doing all of that I was also going deeper into something else entirely. I've traced my ancestry back to the 1200s — through the Choctaw Nation, the Cherokee Nation, ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and nearly every conflict in American history. I found connections to the George Washington family line. I found names, dates, and stories that most people who look like me have been told don't exist.

That research became Ancestral Alignment — a brand and community that has grown to 100,000+ followers organically across Instagram and Facebook — and it became the soul of everything this tour will be.

I have never waited for anyone to build the door. I find the wall and I go through it anyway.

This bus is proof of that. I am finally opening myself up to receive help, but either way I have no intention of quitting and I welcome you on this journey.

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