Finding My Voice

Nobody really asks how I make my music, but if they did, the answer would probably surprise them.

When I realised the utility of ai as production workflow for lower income artists I knew this was just one more tool, but that democrises access to music production. I'd throw it into different genres, different production styles, different vocal ideas, just to see what came back. Every song was an experiment. Sometimes it worked. Sometimes it really didn't.

Somewhere along the way, though, things changed.

I stopped chasing a sound and started chasing the feeling underneath it.

These days, most songs don't begin with music. They begin with a sentence. Idea, or experience. A conversation I overhear. A line that won't leave me alone. Something on the morning news. An ordinary moment that suddenly doesn't feel so ordinary.

I write until I know what I'm actually trying to say.

Then the music comes afterwards.

AI is a big part of how I work now, but it isn't the songwriter. I treat it like a room full of musicians who never get tired of trying another version. I keep the bits that feel true, throw away the ones that don't, rewrite, rebuild and keep going until the song sounds like me.

Lately I've found myself drifting towards melodic house. Not because I decided to become a dance artist, but because I love the idea that a song can make you move while it's quietly saying something that matters.

I've also stopped trying to be clever all the time.

Simple words usually hit harder. One honest sentence can carry a whole song if you let it.

My voice sits naturally in a low baritone, and for a long time I thought that was something I needed to work around. These days I see it differently. It's part of who I am, and I'd rather sound like myself than spend my life trying to sound like somebody else.

I'm not interested in writing songs that pretend everything is okay.

I'm interested in hope without pretending life is easy.

The small moments. The difficult ones. The ordinary mornings. The kindness you didn't expect. The decision to keep your heart open, even when the world gives you plenty of reasons not to.

If there's one thing I hope people hear in these songs, it's this:

There's always something left to say.

And as long as that's true, I'll keep writing.