We were lucky to catch up with Bruce Pandolfo recently and have shared our conversation below.

Bruce, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Did you always know you wanted to pursue a creative or artistic career? When did you first know?

As early as elementary school I was exhibiting constant creative output, from improvising songs to make friends laugh, to starting “monster drawing clubs”. In high school my first “professional” efforts were making DVDs of skateboarding and Jackadd inspired Hijinx and making a local reputation and selling these videos.

Upon discovering Poetry and music as expression in high school, I wrote every day and couldn’t stop myself. It never occurred to me NOT to do it once I started performing and recording music. And in 2009 I started recording my first albums and knew that I wanted to begin a lifelong legacy as a published artist and a public performer. Which I have done with the moniker AllOne, and various other projects, and more recently my commissioned typewriter poetry venture “Write through Me”.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I’m a Long Island, New York based independent artist, journalist, poet, and vocal performer who primarily has been making left-field alternative rap music under the moniker AllOne since 2009. I’m also the lyricist, singer and harmonica player in a folk duo called Almost Elijah.

Since 2020 I have been writing bespoke poetry on typewriters for folks remotely, at public events such as farmers markets and street fairs as well as private events like weddings, bridal showers and various gatherings. I call this project “WRITE THROUGH ME”

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

Creating has always been innately cathartic and rewarding in a healing way, but choosing to be an artist in the public eye through performance and publishing my work through various mediums has opened up my world to have a plethora of experiences where people tell me that I influence them as creative people, or I have given a voice to a feeling or an experience they had that they didn’t know how to describe or explain. Nothing is better for me as an artist when something that I have made connect with someone on a level that touches them and helps them feel understood or guides them through an experience they were struggling with. I have been gifted with these stories from people who have engaged with my work of this and it is a magic honor that I treasure always.

How did you build your audience on social media?

I’m not particularly popular or successful on social media platforms, and I always struggle to understand and strategize with these mediums. I think consistency is always the formula for succeeding in anything regarding your art, and making something that feels real and true and honest. I’m not well schooled or practiced in manipulating algorithms, I just try to make the best work that I can and represent myself well and openly. I think when used as a tool, social media can be a “necessary evil” that can really democratize artists’ connection with their audience and I think you need to do your best to use it as a springboard for more human and tangible and sincere interactions, not just vapid collections of views and likes and empty numbers garnered by appeasing trends while cheapening yourself. People crave humanity and if you can provide that authentically no matter how in vogue it is, it will always resonate with the right people.

Contact Info:

• Website: Www.AllOneVoice.bandcamp.com
• Instagram: https://Www.instagram.com/allonevoice
• Facebook: https://Www.facebook.com/allonevoice
• Youtube: https://Www.youtube.com/allonevoice
• Other: https://Www.linktree.com/AllOneVoice