He has been a musician his whole life and has DJ’ed professionally for 13 years. He currently runs No Ego Records, a label that helps musicians and content makers through cheaper licensing of their songs. Plus, he is the CEO of DropTrack, a platform that helps record labels, independent artists, and producers organize and promote their music.
"In high school I picked up some other instruments. I started playing the clarinet. I started playing the trumpet in marching band and in jazz band, when I went to college at USC here in Los Angeles I played trumpet in the marching band and throughout the college experience I also started DJ'ing."
"I started teaching myself how to do that primarily from watching others, from going to clubs and watching YouTube videos and just buying the equipment and really trying it on my own and I made quite a bit of a career out of that for some time, playing around clubs around the Los Angeles and Hollywood area."
"I think music has always been a passion of mine and so has business from an early age. I've been an entrepreneur and I started my first company in middle school teaching people in my neighborhood how to set up their first computer and hook up their printer and that sort of thing. So, I kind of always had the two as separate passions."
"I think one of the most important things for artists of any size to think about when marketing their music is, what is the goal? What do you define as success for yourself?"
"Probably the most important thing to do from the beginning is really identify, okay, if I want to have a career in music, if I want to call myself a music producer or a rock star or make a living from that craft, what does that really mean? What is an achievable result that I can go after and then work backwards from the steps to get there?"
"It's not going to happen by chance. You're not going to just all of a sudden get discovered. The odds of that happening are very, very low."
"Streaming is... there's like a love-hate relationship. It's a blessing and a curse."
"Definitely a good strategy is working with or trying to identify YouTube influencers or YouTube stars - people creating YouTube videos - and sending them your music to use in the background."