Today we’d like to introduce you to Jack Robie.
Every artist has a unique story. Can you briefly walk us through yours?
Ever since I was young, I was told I had an “ear” for everything music. I could pick up just about any instrument and figure out a way to make something. The one thing I never got around to until I was about 17 was guitar. I had idolized guitarists and their abilities to create these incredible sounds with just two hands, so when I finally got around to taking a few guitar lessons, I was hooked. Every day I would practice for hours, learning new songs, picking up different styles until I felt comfortable writing on my own. To me, poetry and songwriting come hand and hand so when I started writing lyrics; I just treated them like a poem with a rhythm and rhyming. It took a long while before I felt the need to play anything in front of anyone, but like a lot of young musicians, it was in front of my parents where I found the most comfort at first. As my confidence within myself grew from the support of mom, dad, and stepdad to play in front of people I began to expand my audience to close friends, small crowds, open mics, these sorts of things. Now, I’m playing shows, I just released my first EP titled “The Mournings” which you can find on any major musical, online platform except for a few, and am already working on my next release to the world. I can’t even begin to express how long it took for me to get where I am today with my comfortability level when it comes to playing live, but it was worth every worry. Just do it, everyone would say. What do you got to lose?
Please tell us about your art.
I write and compose music. To me, it’s almost to the point of natural instinct to sit down, pick up my guitar, and write a song. I do it because sometimes people have a hard time expressing how they really feel. Even myself, sometimes I don’t realize what’s going on in my brain until I look back on what I just wrote and try to analyze why I wrote what I did. For me, it’s an outlet, and I hope that when people listen, they can connect with what I’m writing about and be able to let those emotions out. Happy or sad, it doesn’t make sense to keep the way you feel bottled up.
Given everything that is going on in the world today, do you think the role of artists has changed? How do local, national or international events and issues affect your art?
Art is a funny, yet beautiful thing. It allows people to express themselves in any way they see fit. So to me, having the ability to speak my mind about anything is riveting. I like to think I keep my eyes open to the world, not diving in too deep to certain things but just taking everything I can in. Subconsciously this comes out in a lot of the music I play and write. In my eyes, the role of the artist is to speak the truth, whether that be the artists’ truth or the whole truth, nothing but the truth, so help them, god. When trying to differentiate on influences being local, national or international, I feel like it just depends on what matters most in the eyes of the specific artist. Some create based on day to day things, others about the past, lots about what’s wrong in the world, and a whole lot about what’s right. Just depends I guess on the person.
How or where can people see your work? How can people support your work?
Now that I’ve just released my first songs to the world via Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, YouTube, and a couple of others, I’m really starting to try and book more shows around the San Diego area. I would try and contact venues before I had released anything and nine times out of 10 they would respond by asking for a hard copy of my music, or where they could find me online. But to answer your question, just look me up! I get so stoked when someone asks me now, where they can listen to my music, and I get to respond with Spotify or iTunes, it’s a great feeling 🙂 I’m also in the process of creating a website so I can let people know about upcoming shows and events I’ll be playing at, but for the time being, I keep all of the people that follow my Instagram account Up to date on all musical and life stuff!
Contact Info:
- Phone: 7603341340
- Email: jackrobiemusic@gmail.com
- Instagram: jack_robie
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