Today we’d like to introduce you to Divighn.
Hi Divighn, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
The Last Button on Jacob’s Coat
Born De’Vaughn Roseman to Deborah and Lorenz Roseman Sr., I grew up hearing my father call me “the last button on Jacob’s coat”—the youngest, the final piece, and, in many ways, a symbol of the family’s story continuing forward.
Some of my earliest memories are rooted in music. My father introduced my siblings and me to the sounds of his generation—Motown, The Gap Band, and anything else that could get us dancing, pop-locking across the living room. We spent countless hours watching Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker on repeat, absorbing the magic of performance before I was old enough to understand exactly what it meant to dream of becoming an entertainer.
Life, however, didn’t always move to the rhythm I imagined.
My childhood and young adulthood included more hospital visits than I would have liked. I battled asthma, broke my elbow, and suffered devastating knee injuries that took nearly three years to recover from and still impact my daily life today. Along the way came missed opportunities, disappointment, and moments when the future I envisioned felt impossibly far away.
Yet those seasons of physical and emotional struggle gave me something I couldn’t have learned any other way: gratitude.
When so much is taken away, you begin to appreciate what remains—the ability to walk, breathe, create, laugh, love, and simply wake up another day with another opportunity to try.
During one particularly long period of recovery, I found myself binge-watching Avatar: The Last Airbender and writing poetry. It was during that downtime that another part of me began to emerge.
Although I had grown up surrounded by a family that sang, created, and dreamed, I hadn’t seriously explored writing until then. Creativity, however, had always been a language I understood. Even as a child, I was creating beats and instrumental ideas with nothing more than my mouth and my imagination. Eventually, after college, my brother and I combined our creativity and made our first song together. It was a small beginning, but it opened a door that would never close.
As a young adult, I entered the workforce while spending my weekends performing anywhere that would give me a stage. 99% of the time, the opportunity to perform was the payment. Every stage became a classroom, and every audience became another chance to sharpen my craft.
Eventually, I traded corporate America for entrepreneurship. Coaching people to lose weight and transform their lifestyles became a fulfilling way to help others, spread light, and stay in shape for the stage I always knew I was destined to pursue.
Then came one of the most important chapters of my journey: The Soto Band.
For six years, I served as the lead singer of the Inland Empire’s premier funk band. I performed an average of four days a week, 52 weeks a year, often singing three one-hour sets per show. Thousands of hours onstage taught me things no classroom ever could—how to command a room, connect with an audience, recover from mistakes, protect my voice, and give everything I had even when I wasn’t feeling my best.
The stage became home.
But eventually, comfort became something I had to confront.
I knew there was a difference between being grateful for where you are and being willing to leave it for where you’re called to go. So, despite the fear, uncertainty, and countless unanswered questions, I walked away from the security I had built and chose the unknown.
I chose the dream.
That decision eventually led me to singing on NBC’s The Voice, Season 27.
But appearing on The Voice wasn’t the beginning of the dream—it was another chapter in a story that has been developing since those living-room dance sessions with my family, since the hospital beds, since the poetry, since the first beat made with my mouth, and since the first song my brother and I created together.
Today, I continue that journey as Divighn.
The name itself carries a piece of my story. At three significant points in my life, three different people independently called me “Divine De’Vaughn.” Eventually, I realized that maybe the name wasn’t just coincidence—it was confirmation. From those words came Divighn, a name that represents the artist I’ve become and the person I’ve fought to become.
Now, I release new music every six to eight weeks and perform at least once a month, continuing to build a career one song, one stage at a time.
The dream has never been simply to become famous.
It has always been bigger than that.
I’ve wanted to become a world-renowned entertainer, not only so I could stand on stages around the world, but so I could create a life where my family could pursue their dream life because of the success I built. I want my story to remind people to fight for your dreams even through the detours, the injuries, the missed opportunities, fear and uncertainty; that it’s okay to dream big.
Sometimes the thing that feels like it delayed your journey is actually the thing that prepares you for it.
I’m still becoming.
Still writing. Still singing. Still performing. Still dreaming.
I’m still carrying with me everything that brought me here—the music my father played, the family that taught me to dream, the setbacks that taught me gratitude, the stages that taught me discipline, and the people who saw something divine in De’Vaughn before I saw it myself.
I may have been the last button on Jacob’s coat.
But I’m far from the end of the story.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Life has been a wonderful roller coaster, full of ups and downs, that made me who I am today. A poignant example of the roller coaster ride happened in middle school when I landed the leading role of Young Simba on broadway. I have always been active but haven’t always been as graceful or athletic as I would like to think. Literally hours before getting the call from the casting director I broke my elbow from a failed hurdling attempt. My mother received the call while we were in the hospital. One moment I had a career opportunity that could have changed my life and the next moment all I had was the pining for what could have been. I learned at a young age about my talents, limitations, consequences while learning how to grow and manage disappointments.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I would say, outside of music, I am most known for fitness. I have been a personal trainer and health coach for ten years. With all the injuries I have experienced maintaining my body has become an integral part of who I am. I still offer training packages but they mostly live online versus in person now which gives me more flexibility and time to dedicate to my music and ultimate dream. I always work to be a better person than I was yesterday; I will never be done learning or growing as a person because there will always be something I can improve on whether it is physical, intellectual or emotional. I am proud to be an artist and a brand that other people want to be a part of, that is kind, compassionate and undeniably fun.
We all have a different way of looking at and defining success. How do you define success?
Success to me is difficult to define. If success is achieving my dream does that mean that anything short of that is failure? I think success is understanding that todays best will not be the same as tomorrows best, is pushing through even when I don’t feel like it, accepting where I am and giving myself grace without a pass, success is doing your best in whatever you plan to do. I have big goals and bigger dreams and ultimate success will be the day I can say those have been achieved, but until then success to me is the daily actions I take towards accomplishing those goals.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.divighn.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/divighn/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Divighn
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@divighn27
