A lifelong Marylander, Derrick Credito is a Columbia-based community college educator who has also achieved critical acclaim as an author and musician. In the late 1990s, he started his music career performing in clubs and cafes throughout Baltimore and the Mid Atlantic region. In 2010, he completed a Master of Arts degree in Fiction at The Johns Hopkins University. His first novel The Year Of The Tsunami (2022, Wandering Bohemian Press) has received several international accolades, including London’s Reader’s House Magazine’s Editor's Choice Award of Literary Excellence.
After years of performing as a solo acoustic artist, he eventually became the bassist in two esteemed Baltimore-area bands: My Useless Self and Let Go Echo, the latter which was nominated for Best EDM Band in 2024’s Maryland Music Awards.
But beyond working in other bands, Derrick Credito has also developed a strong repertoire of his own music, steeped in acoustic guitar-driven rock & roll and flavored with unpretentious Baltimore grit.
His band Credito is an indie rock quintet that showcases some of Central Maryland’s finest talents, including guitarists Christian Alfonso (Quiet the Mountain) and Paris Thalheimer (Black Sevens), as well as cellist Bailey Dicus and drummer Jeremy Konstanzer (both of Bag Of Humans and My Useless Self).
In March 2025, the Credito album Irreverent Soul was released to international acclaim. From Paris to Los Angeles, online music journalists praised the album, including the singles “Wicked World” and “Be Good To The Earth, calling it “undeniably powerful” and “a story of survival set to music.” Fans of David Bowie, Third Eye Blind, Fiona Apple and perhaps even Guns N’ Roses might relate to Credito’s truthful and uncompromising contributions to the indie rock canon.
