When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.
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Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life.
I was raised around music.
I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
I come from a family rooted in the arts, so I think I naturally gravitated towards performing from an early age.
I meet people every single day who have heard the music and incorporated it into their lives. I feel like I have a tribe all around the world.
I get interested in the various ways that music is being done in the culture, and some of it I like thoroughly enough to want to learn about it. The way I have been successful at doing that is to become part of it.
I grew up in a musical atmosphere at home.
Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important.
It was a big surprise when I started to get attention in Sweden, going from biochemistry studies to touring and living from music only. There were a couple of years while I went to university when I was OK with thinking of music as just a nice recreation.
It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.
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