We recently connected with Charlie Tripp and have shared our conversation below.

Charlie, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear about when you first realized that you wanted to pursue a creative path professionally.

I feel as though I have had the desire or dream to chase music professionally since I was about 12 years old, but realistically I did not make the decision until I finished my Junior year of college in 2017.

When I was 12 I was in a band with my best friends, and we all had the same dream to go on tour just like our favorite bands did. After a few years, however, the band slowly dissolved and everyone went their separate ways. It was around this time when EDM started making waves through my hometown of Miami, and I attended Ultra Music Festival in 2013 and 2014. I remember I was watching GTA, an extremely talented producer and DJ group from Miami, when a life changing question entered my head. If they can go on stage and move this many people with music made from their laptop, why can’t I? So after Ultra, I cracked a version of FL Studio and began to dive deep into music production.

Later on in 2014, I graduated from High School and got accepted into Boston University. At this point I had not made the decision to pursue music professionally because all I heard from everyone around me is that it wasn’t a viable career or that I was better of going to college and studying in STEM. So I picked Electrical Engineering as my major, and I moved to Boston to study. I never quite quit music, so I was still producing EDM pretty regularly, secretly hoping that I would blow up and I could drop out of school. The truth is, I never had the courage to chase that dream, and it was only through years of studying engineering that I realized how little I want to do anything else but music. My junior year proved to be one of the hardest, most stressful years of my life, and I really began to think about my future and what I wanted that to look like. I became more and more repulsed with the idea of working a 9-5, until one day I finally made the decision. I realized that I would rather die than not chase this dream I’ve had since I was 12, and it was only then, when all the bridges were burned in my head, that I began to actually dedicate myself to music. I still ended up graduating, but I never ended up working a 9-5, and I don’t regret it at all.

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 am an independent recording and performing musical artist. I am a singer, songwriter, producer, and an audio engineer. I taught myself basically everything I know, with the help of YouTube and an online singing course. I am basically a one stop shop for making music, and my skills have allowed me to take control of every single part of the process of making a song. My best talent is transforming others ideas (and my own) into full fledged musical productions. I work really well with others and often make some of my best work with others. I really am most proud of having the courage to tackle this industry independently, and making the commitment to never sell the rights to my work. The main things I want people to know about my work is that it is all inspired, meaning I never make my music just because I know people will like it. I really only make music that speaks to my own soul and that feeds me more inspiration.

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative?

I think non-creatives find it difficult to understand the process of honing the skills necessary to be a recognized creative. A lot of it comes from accepting that you will make bad music (or anything else) at first. Everyone does. It’s part of the process, and being too prideful to accept it is what holds people back from really improving. One of my biggest insights is that waiting to be inspired is the worst thing you can do as a creative, and building the consistent discipline to be creative (despite what the outcome is) is what makes you progress.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

The most rewarding aspect of being an artist is making intangible or unexplainable emotions tangible with music and lyric. The feeling of being understood is one of the main reasons people listen to music, and often times there doesn’t have to be lyrics involved to do that.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/charlietrippmusic/
• Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/charlietrippmusic
• Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/charlietripp305
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHqp-nZU8Mv2MeIYfWkvquA?view_as=subscriber
• Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@charlietrippmusic?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc

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Obed Lopez, Chris Amador, Isabella Bobadilla