Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Wave Magnetik & Rowanne Atallah. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Alright, Wave Magnetik & thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Can you talk to us about a project that’s meant a lot to you?
All the music that we write has a deep meaningful message. One of them that come to mind is our song Light Night. We wrote it as a commentary about the 2020 explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. It talks about Rowanne’s personal experience during the explosion. While she was there, she thought her and her family was going to die. The building shook as if it was going to collapse on everybody. All the glass windows shattered into the apartment. In the midst of the chaos, all Rowanne could think of was her 4 year old sister Sophia who wasn’t there with her, and thats the perspective of where the song comes from.
Wave Magnetik &, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
Wave Magnetik (born Donald Malloy) started music playing trumpet as a jazz musician. He cut his teeth in the New York City Jazz scene and over time began playing other styles of music. Doing this he began to develop a love for electronic music being inspired by artists such as Knower and Zedd. He than began making electronic music and touring as Wave Magnetik mixing trumpet and Dj-ing his original music.
Rowanne Atallah born from the country of cedars, Lebanon started her musical journey since 3 years old. Her background in music is Middle Eastern, French, and 80s American rock pop. Rowanne got into dance and theatre at an early age as well. Her musical journey took her from Lebanon to Boson Massachusetts at Berklee College of Music. Here she experienced many genres and languages in music and developed a desire to blend this with her own culture and promote diversity and inclusion. Which led her to New York City.
Here Wave and Rowanne ironically met on a wedding gig randomly playing music that has nothing to do with this and they realized they shared the same love for the same kind of music. They then decided to create as a team.
Together they create melodic infectious dance music symbolizing unity in diversity. Combining Rowanne’s middle eastern roots and Wave’s jazz background, they have given birth to a new electronic dance music era called “Hayete” where there’s mixture of language and cultures blending together.
Is there mission driving your creative journey?
Rowanne Atallah:
To touch the souls of people from around the world in whatever language and make them dream and dance.
In life we all have a mission no matter the field. Sometimes we think we don’t know what our mission is but deep inside we do.
We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.
Wave Magnetik:
I remember when I first moved to New Jersey it was a very difficult time. That was literally the most broke I have ever been. The day before I moved I did a gig in Detroit playing with Cab Callaway and they paid me $250. I then moved to Jersey and had to get things for my apartment and I spent $250 dollars. I then get called for a wedding gig that payed me $250 but I had to buy a suit which cost me another $250…lol. I’m going in circles! I then only had $10 to my name that had to last me for 30 days until I could get paid for my new job. So… I bought a bag of rice and some soy sauce and ate rice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Whoo that was a rough time. But the point of this is to say, a lot of people would have just given up immediately, but to get to your goal you will have to sacrifice and go through hardship. If you get through the trials, it will lead to your promised land.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.wavemagnetik.com/hayete
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/hayetemusic
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/wavemagnetik
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVTFUzSI3eE&list=PLWT-pdPCvkOU5YTpHwRDcbBrZQlK-rLUf
Image Credits
Denyce Renee