What does staying true to yourself mean though? I mean, what does it mean in a pragmatic way? How can I practice "staying true to myself"? Well, say you’re listening to a song that just hits you! This song was so dope that it made you wanna do something similar on your own. So you sit down with your producer, you ask him to make a beat kind of like that song that you heard. The beat turns out dope, so you sit down again start writing. You finish your lyrics, record the song,

Your Story Journalists are curious. It's their nature and since you’re an artist I don’t think I need to tell you how much impact a good story can have. If you can provide a journalist with a story that accompanies your song it adds context to the song and it makes your persona so much more more interesting. But not only to potential fans, but also to journalists! It enriches their professional life if they can actually tell (and write!) a good story. In that case, it is much

While I was assisting the great Cristina Ruiz-Kellersmann from CRK Communications I learned a few but very valuable lessons about music promotion. Here some of the things you really shouldnt do before you've gotta learn them the ahrd way: Journalists and bloggers are not your PR-Agents I think this is pretty clear to most of y’all but for those who are completely new to the idea of promoting their music to blogs and magazines, I’d like to mention it anyway: Journalists and bl