We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Emma Gimeno. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Emma below.

Hi Emma, thanks for joining us today. Are you happy as a creative professional? Do you sometimes wonder what it would be like to work for someone else?

I think a big reason why being an artist is difficult is because you turn your passion into your career, which obviously is not easy because everyone would do it otherwise! This is something I think about all the time. As an artist, your career might go really well for a couple of months but then the rest of the year could be bad. We might make money for one project and then have to wait months and months for another project to make us money. Because of this we can find ourselves doing creative projects that we don’t want to do, which is super draining. There’s only so much creativity you can pull out of your pocket when you aren’t inspired. Our work depends on our inspiration a lot of the time. That being said, sometimes you have to learn how to work when there’s no inspiration. Despite all of this and the constant existential crisis I may have as an artist, I think it’s worth it because I would still choose to be doing this over any other job. I feel lucky to love something so much that I’m willing to sacrifice financial stability for a while in order to follow my passion.

Emma, 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?

I’m primarily an artist and songwriter. I know I still have a lot to learn about the music industry, especially as it is always evolving, but I know that I’m good at what I do and I really love to create music. I’ve been surrounded by music my whole life and singing for a very long time, so it feels natural to me now to be around other people who have the same or a similar experience as me. I went to Berklee College of Music and I think I really came out of my shell there. I was really inspired by everyone around me all the time and I also learned a lot about myself, my strengths and weaknesses. It really pushed me to be a better musician and writer. I’m still learning so much as I go but I feel like the more I collaborate with people the more I learn about myself and the more I realize I have a lot to contribute. I love being a songwriter because I can go into a room with other writers/producers/musicians and leave a couple of hours later with a great song. Something I believe I bring to the table as a songwriter aside from ideas, is support. I want the people I collaborate with to feel like their ideas matter. A supportive environment is super important when it comes to creating.

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

Something difficult about my career path is when I have to choose it over people I love. I’m sure a lot of creatives can relate to this. I recently moved to LA and left my family in Spain. This was a hard decision that I knew I was going to make anyways for the sake of my career, but it’s a sacrifice that makes it much harder for me to go home or even call home. Where I come from, family is everything, so to be so far away can be really tough. Some days I ask myself whether or not it’s really worth it, but music and my career also means a lot to me and I’m grateful to be able to pursue it. A lot of people can’t pick up and move somewhere to follow their dreams so I’m also very aware of that.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

It’s really important to me to remain myself no matter where my career takes me. It might be easy to get wrapped up in the LA craziness, but I try to remind myself where I came from and how I was raised. I just love art and music and I feel like I have a lot to say. For my own artist project, my goal is to always stay true to myself and my voice. I might change overtime as a person, as we all do, but I hope my art will always reflect who I am.

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