Orlando-based producer, songwriter, mix engineer, and musical artist, who also runs a wildly successful YouTube channel called Make Pop Music, which has almost 220 thousand subscribers and a combined total of over 14.6 million video views. In addition to working with some of the top audio companies, he has worked with hundreds of artists spanning 39 countries and a variety of genres. He has written more than a thousand songs and has more than 36 thousand monthly listeners on Spotify, where his top five songs alone have gotten a combined total of close to 5.5 million streams. A new single is being planned for late February or early March release.
“I love working as a team but sometimes when you make so many records and you're part of so many things happening you just want to take a little bit of time and just make something purely for the fun of it.”
“I like to write a lot of narrative when I'm writing lyrics … So sometimes when I write songs, I write them in kind of a fictional voice or kind of a fictional story … And so, to me it's always fun to kind of push myself as a writer and write about things that aren't necessarily my experience, but they're things that I've seen friends deal with or you see in pop culture and movies and TV shows.”
“Growing up my dad was a drummer and played a little bit of guitar, so I'd go bang around on his drum set, I'd fiddle with his guitar, and music was always just something that made sense to me.”
“When I'm doing something like (his song ‘100 Ways’) it's going to be mostly synthesized. Typically, what I'll do is I'll just kind of write the chord progression of the main melody and then I'll just sing most of the song over top of that and then I'll start adding the production a little bit later. So, it's not too different than if I was playing chords on an acoustic guitar.”
“I feel like a good production is only as good as a song and so if I'm starting to produce something and I feel like the songwriting could be better I'm always going to step in and at least give my opinion.”
“You shouldn't withhold all of your creativity. So, at some point you just have to make something and release it. I get so sad when I see people with hard drives full of music that they're just not releasing because they just don't have the confidence, or they're scared that it's not going to do well.”
“I don't think that music has to kind of be an end goal of, like, get famous, make it a business. Music can just be a hobby and a passion and a way to express yourself.”
“When I was able to just download a DAW and say, ‘You know what, this is exactly how I feel like the song should be,’ that to me was like a light bulb moment. I was like, ‘Oh, I love doing this’.”
“I just feel like if I start to be so worried about censoring myself all the time or having clean versions, I feel like I might start to sanitize my creativity.”
“100 Ways” [Explicit]
“Clutch” [Explicit]