Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I grew up with artists.
I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.
Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.
It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers.
From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.
I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
Being an artist doesn't start because you're 21, and it doesn't end because you're 51. You are who you are until the day you die.
The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
With new artists, you really don't have anything to reference. You're helping to develop their sound, define who they are vocally.