We were lucky to catch up with Matthew Fiock recently and have shared our conversation below.

Matthew, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

I have felt the most meaningful projects as an indie music artist is always when I am in the studio creating new sounds and perspectives. My wife and I have looked for the right studio and it’s producer for a number of years. A producer that would know my myself and my own sound better than i would. From living in Seattle for some time to the Dallas area we hadn’t found the right fit. Slowly becoming disillusioned and starting to believe I wouldn’t reel in any legitimate potential of growth within myself and songs that needed a fit. I had discovered BDM studio in Commerce, Texas with its producer, Mr. Brad Davis, being a Grammy Award winning producer and engineer. I had found my match and I had even begun learning to grow my own ears in producing songs for pitches in TV, movies and commercials. Even if I didn’t land a pitch with a composition of my own and make money off it? I am convinced the fruition of the most meaningful expression for myself is simply creating.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

My name is Matthew Fiock and I am an Independent Reggae/Island/Rock solo singer/songwriter that sometimes plays with a group. I have been playing and singing for over 20 years and I had eventually found my way into the music industry in the Texas area. I started looking for music artist conferences from Seattle, Wa to Dallas, Texas as that is primarily where I have lived or worked. Only in the last 6-7 years did I legitimately start working shows for myself. I did not know where to start setting up shop and I came across a developmental artist group called AMTC from which I graduated in 2016. They gave me much of the skills and tools I needed to be successful in this industry. I have recently been selected in the last year to have my songs pitched for TV, film and commercials by a group from the UK called United Entertainment and Media (UEM). Not only do I work in studio w/ the 7x Grammy award winning producer Brad Davis at BDM studio, but I also do play live shows. I have had the opportunity to perform for associates of Mark Cuban at the Dr. Pepper arena amongst other great opportunities. I also enjoy working in being a voice over talent in potential commercials for singer express. Currently, I have undergone a recently earned title as a talent agent working for Mars Talent Agency by owner and operator Ms. Wendy Klein Kay. Ms. Wendy Kay has represented the late Michael Jackson as well as repping one of the active members of the known powerhouse talents of “The Temptations.”
I get to work with some tremendous people and I am humbled by it.
As I am an artist 1st, I realize playing the Ukulele with my particular brand of these styles aforementioned is a bit curious. I can say I have earned every inch I’ve ever been given and I plan to earn much more as I grow into a household name.
I believe in being a team player and I am a BIG advocate of giving others a shot. There are just too many artists that only worry about themselves. We can honestly say there is plenty of people in the world for all artists to make a living off of their work. Why not pull each other up!? Community is one of the greatest achievements you can earn in this music industry. It simply comes down to a choice.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

In these last few years I have learned an overcoming and resilient spirit from much loss of support by the passing of loved ones. 3 1/2 years ago I lost my mother to ovarian cancer. Deborah Fiock and my Father, Mike, were some of the greatest influencers to becoming fully what I believe I was shaped for. They both taught me the power of overcoming my every obstacle and were the ones who taught me to use my music in shaping the world around me. After a year of losing my Mother, I then lost a close cousin. My mind already had become unfocused and my craft suffered terribly due to my mothers passing and then my cousin’s. I really wasn’t ready to be challenged any further. Then recently in February of 2022 I lost my oldest sibling of 8. My sister Devonee had lost her very long and hard fought battle to cancer. In those few years it was such a gut punch that much of my creative expressions and processes were beginning to seize up their productivity in just about all of my work. I was unable to think straight. My resolve within what I was doing with my life was viciously shaken. I knew I had to take a stand for continuing on as a musical artist. There came a few years time that I was discouraged in being an independent artist and that I needed to move on and do something else. I didn’t have the support that I once had and my focus always came in the way of singing, writing and playing. I finally took some time aside and received counseling as well as other artists that were reaching out to me to pull me back up. With some much needed prayer and helping hands from a few trusted friends, coworkers and supporters, I had begun to deal first with the grief. Strangely, grief has a way of uncovering other issues that you were not aware of for yourself. I started facing my own grief head on and along with those very few trusted people I had I began to heal. Not only that, but I had started to believe in myself again . My writing has developed more of a backbone in spirit. I know that I have personally matured for my family and community. My life story, I do believe, is not supposed to be mine only, but for others to know that their victories to their challenges will also come from my very own heart breaks. I believe our stories are supposed to cut deeply, challenge (in the best ways), mend and teach resiliency to other people sometimes we don’t ever get to meet. If you are to be an artist that gets to experience the world and you influencing in it? Then resilience will innately become part of your craft. I believe it takes us to die to ourselves so we can be rebirthed (resilient) by faith to make us bounce back and become alive in this very troubled world. Resilience, I believe, only comes by hardship and then by faith. As an artist, when this happens you become someone who really has something to say as you sing. Because then it’s real and the world needs to know what is real and why exactly that will heal your life. A new identity of being an overcomer and a resilience will be your new reality!

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

People. Yes, I LOVE being able to write, sing, perform and quite simply release that bursting expression. The golden moments are when I get to be off stage, on the floor and spending time with someone that simply needs another to notice them! To acknowledge that you are a human being and you matter in this lifetime as your life means more than what the world in general is teaching us. I am not given necessarily to movements and causes, but to caring for ALL people by what I do. Isn’t that what all good services in all good experiences under the sun are for? To cater in the quality of one’s life and the care of the human race.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.matthewfiock.com/
• Instagram: Matthew Fiock
• Facebook: Matthew Fiock music
• Youtube: Matthew Fiock

Image Credits
Mandy Fiock photography