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GUESS THIS IS GROWING UP
I started running from my body as soon as I hit puberty. That’s when the startlingly vivid dreams about kissing girls began. I’d wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, utterly confused and completely terrified.…
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Influences & Inspirations
Creating with Insomnia
I wrote my new song “Pieces” in the heat of my struggle with insomnia and the anxiety it caused. I’d say a lot of my struggles stem from my diagnosis with Lyme disease when I was 17 and subsequently moving…
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Artist Journeys
Becoming maxime.
One morning last year, I woke up and decided I was going to skip my math class and write a song. (I’m currently studying Economics at the University of Ottawa, which is located in, as you might have guessed, Ottawa,…
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Artist Journeys
Making Something From Nothing
I must say, this journey has had its ups and downs but now I’m at the age where I can appreciate the duality of existence, the good and bad in the process to get to where I artistically need to…
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Influences & Inspirations
Arctic Appreciation
I’m 14 years old and my uncle has just purchased a subscription to “Rolling Stone” magazine for my birthday. Leaning back in my computer chair, I flip through the pages – avoiding long-form articles and instead skimming the pictures and blurbs of familiar celebrities. My teenage brain, at the time, is mostly accustomed to rap. If you had asked, I…
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Influences & Inspirations
Music and Autism: Creating a school song for the charity Prior’s Court
Back in 2016, I contributed a small amount of piano and guitar to the soundtrack of Nick Kelly’s film The Drummer and the Keeper. Set in Dublin, it’s a tale of an unlikely friendship forged between Gabriel, a renegade drummer suffering from bipolar and recovering from his mother’s death, and Christopher, a teenager with Asperger’s. Christopher lives in a residential…
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The Importance of Self-Care as an Artist
Ever since I dove headfirst into the pursuit of being a singer-songwriter and producer, I’ve often questioned how I was going to create balance in my life. As if making my own music, writing my own lyrics and recording/engineering my vocals, designing my own artwork, going to school, and trying to maintain a steady income with multiple jobs wasn’t enough,…
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Artist Journeys
Green Room Stories Presents | Thutmose
23-year-old rapper/singer/songwriter Thutmose joins Green Room Stories for an exclusive video feature. Born Umar Ibrahim in Nigeria, Thutmose and his family moved to Brooklyn in his youth, where he still lives today. In his story, Thutmose details his early experiences living in both Nigeria and Brooklyn, and how the diversity of New York City helped shape his artistic future. Initially…