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Artist Spotlight: Happier

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Happier is a Filipino singer living in Italy currently, His style is a mixture of a lot of different genres of music including acoustic, pop, R&B, EDM, and House. Happier fell in love with music at the age of 9 when he would sing karaoke in front of his family at family gatherings and events. He was also really interested in arts at this time and stopped music for some time and fell back in love with music when he moved to Italy. He auditioned for X Factor Italy twice but this led him to start being an indie artist. The biggest influences in his music are Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, Lauv, Shawn Mendes, and James Auther among other British and American pop artists. In 2023 he is planning on releasing some songs throughout the middle of the year. In one of his tracks “Boomerang,” he wanted to express the feeling of a guy having a traumatic experience after a break up even though he hated his ex-partner he can’t move on and is still in love with his ex. Happier would like t...

Artist Spotlight: Aldu

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Aldu is a Chilean Rock, Pop, Folk, and Experimental solo artist/songwriter. About 5 years ago Aldu decided to do their own music project after many anecdotes in his life told Aldu to pursue it and his lifelong love of music. The main bands that inspire Aldu to create the type of music that they make are Radiohead and Sparklehorse. Aldu likes to make his sound very simple with acoustic guitars and distorted electric guitars being the main instruments in Aldu’s pieces. Aldu also keeps the melodies simple by adding intensities to give their music emotion. In one of Aldu’s most popular tracks “ El “Artista,” it shows the anger felt that helped Aldu compose the track where Aldu vented his angry emotions with the soft rhythms and Latin instruments used it is a complete contrast to the lyrics. In 2023 Aldu hopes to finish up their album as well as release his first single off of that album. Aldu would like to thank the people that follow his career as well as all of the people tha...

Artist Spotlight: Bashful

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Bashful is a 34-year-old singer from Belgium who has been singing all of his life. His music teacher in school when he was 7 really liked his voice and let him sing in front of the whole school. When he was around 18 or 19 he found a producer that would eventually become his best friend but the friend wanted to go in a different direction so they broke up and Bashful started on his own journey where he wants to take his skills as a 3D designer and build a world around his music. Some of his biggest musical inspirations would be The Weekend, James Blake, Drake, Queen, Radiohead, and Michael Jackson. His biggest musical achievement happened around 4 years ago when he wrote the first song that he was proud of creating. The song is titled “Hero” and is about the passing of his late father. Bashful wanted to get the song played on the radio in Belgium so he contacted every single radio station in Belgium to play “Hero” and did not hear back for months until he was on a family va...

Artist Spotlight: Christian Weile

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Christian Weile is a singer/performer from Spain but now residing in London. 2 weeks after moving to London he was already auditioning for the TV singing competition X Factor. This wasn't his start in music though because he had always been involved in music and he even has videos of him at the age of 3 singing and performing. He started to write lyrics at 13 and after not going all the way on X Factor he decided to become an independent artist. He would say that his biggest inspirations in music are the “weirdos” in music as in the artists that create characters and live to perform like Lady Gaga and David Bowie. On one of his most popular tracks titled “Drowning 2.0” he told me that this particular song is about depression as well as loneliness where the person is swimming for their life in deep waters but is getting tired. He wanted to create this song because he wants to normalize mental health and people talking about mental health. Christian Weile’s next goal is t...

Artist Spotlight: Heleen

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Heleen is a Dutch EDM artist who has always been around music because she is a daughter of a musician and music teacher. She fell in love with the genre of EDM due to her loving the workload and the fantastic people in the EDM scene. One of the collaborations that Heleen highlighted was BEAUZ where she worked on her new song “Behind My Eyes” because they are always friendly and are a music producer match between her and them. Lately, she has been experimenting with other elements and genres within the electronic music scene. She surpassed 1 million plays on her song “ Keep On Dancing, " one of her favorite songs as well. In 2023 she wants to release a different song every month and have a lot of different collaborations than in 2022.

Artist Spotlight: Chayz3r

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Chayz3r is an English rapper and songwriter that got his name because of an old wrestler named the Blue Blazer but changed the wording to make Chayz3r he was originally Chayzer but people kept stealing and using that name so he added the 3 to add more originality and so people did not get confused on who he was. He started getting into music due to the writing process and how free and creative the process can be. On the rapping side, Chayz3r got started by rapping small freestyles with his friends at school. He said that he lost his love for music a long time ago and that to be able to find it again was a huge achievement for him because if he never found it he would not be able to have moments like this interview or to have his songs play on the radio. He has gotten some notoriety by being featured on BBC1 Extra and he described that experience as a sense of reassurance that rap was the right career path for him. He actually was unaware of when he was actually going to be ...

Artist Spotlight: Emanuel Brown

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Emanuel Brown got started in the music industry at about the age of 12 because he saw a few of his friends rapping being so young he tried it and failed but later on, in life, he fell in love with how people can put words together and those very same words can impact and change someone's entire life. His biggest inspirations come from the hip-hop and R&B genres, In the hip-hop genre he is influenced by LL Cool J, Jay-Z, and Pusha T. In the R&B genre, he is influenced by TLC, D’Angelo, and Maxwell. His most recent EP is titled V2 meaning Vibes 2 and is the second installment of the Vibes EP series Emanuel Brown has been working on over the last couple of years. V2 is an all R&B style EP the original Vibes EP was released in 2020 and is based around relationships this EP received a great reception from his audience and people that listened to the EP and he wanted to create a second installment. On V2 two of the tracks that have a very deep meaning to Emanuel B...

Artist Spotlight: AMKEN

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AMKEN is a Greek heavy metal band that started their music career in 2011 because four men loved jamming out together. There have been some bumps in the road and many high points for this band meeting some amazing people and being able to visit some amazing places along their over a decade journey in the music industry. On their new album “ Passive Aggressive” the inspiration behind the album are social issues and things AMKEN experiences in their daily life. AMKEN thinks that being from Greece and living there has definitely impacted the music they make and the meaning behind their songs due to the many social issues in Greece. Some advice they have for a new artist would be to keep pushing and to always believe in yourself. In 2023 AMKEN will be doing a European tour in Spring of 2023 so if you want to see them live they might be coming to a city near you very soon.   Links to listen to AMKEN:  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0skGr1f0OyI4fjumVZwVkY...