Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to EJ Sarà. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

EJ, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Do you wish you had waited to pursue your creative career or do you wish you had started sooner?

I don’t often think about that I could have done this earlier or later in my life, because I feel like it’s something that I fell into, that I felt God was pushing me forward to do. I had an interesting journey to become a professional singer/songwriter. I never thought that I would have my music on TV, ads, and in films. I always loved music, but never was much of a risk taker, so I got my degree in music therapy. I loved the idea of helping people using music, and I did enjoy my job working with geriatrics and hospice. During the time I was working as a music therapist, I did write music, but not very much. After a while, I thought that I wasn’t really capable of writing my own songs since it had been so long since I had really written my own music, but I realized that as I started to write music for my local band at the time, that writing music, and any creative endeavor is like a muscle that just needs to be worked to get stronger. As I started to write, and worked that “songwriting muscle” I felt like I could write more and more.

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 write soulful, powerful, sassy and cinematic music with one theme that continues to arise: EMPOWERMENT. I previously worked as a music therapist, playing and singing jazz standards and creating original music for hospice patients, and currently teach motivating group exercise classes that inspire my songwriting. I have a bit of an obsession with creating unique and dense backup vocals in my songs. You can hear my music on CBS Sports, promos for Showtime and on CBS (Fire Country), Netflix (Selling Sunset), Disney+ (Big Shot), MTV, The CW (Batwoman), Hulu, SyFy, Masterclass, and ads such as Kohl’s and Nissan.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

In the music industry, collaboration is essential, and I am sure everyone working in music has a similar story to tell about working with a bunch of people until they find their main collaborators and find a niche in the industry. I feel like I definitely had to endure lots of crazy situations and felt like I had to wait and wait to get my first placements on TV, but as I continued to just do what I loved, I really started to find amazing people to work with and started to also see placements in TV, film and ads start to flow in. It was challenging to wait, but I would say not so challenging to stick with it because I always felt so much drive to keep going. You can feel it when you know what you’re creating is something special – it makes it easier to focus on your craft late on a Friday night.

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

It’s so rewarding to finish a song with a collaborator, and just put it on repeat, and getting the song stuck in your head, because you just feel so satisfied with how it turned out. It is also rewarding to get a song placed in media, because it is an acknowledgment that you have fulfilled a need. I love seeing how they interpret the song as well. I have seen placements where they took the lyrics I wrote and applied them to the scene in such a way that makes so much sense, but I never would have thought of when writing it- super cool to see that.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ejsaramusic/
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Mark Sanderson