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

Gerald, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We’d love to hear about when you first realized that you wanted to pursue a creative path professionally.

For years I had written and recorded music and I knew deep down that I had this voice and these lyrics that I wanted to share, I had done a couple shows when I was just starting but they didn’t go great and I had a choice because I had done the shows for free and I wanted to get paid and I said the next event I go to I get paid or I’m figuring out and the next event I was was opening for Obie Trice , paid nearly a week to the day and I realized this was it. This is what I wanted to do.

Gerald, 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 had started making music officially probably in my early 20s I had been riding songs and like rap lyrics since I was 16 and then I started recording music when I was 20, I didn’t release any music until three years later. It took years for me to get to a point where I was performing regularly, and I kind of built a name for myself and the city that I’m in, and then expanding that to America and throughout the rest of the north, the amount of discipline and perseverance. It takes to be a musician, it’s not an easy road and you have to have a willingness to keep pushing against the current to be successful in the music business. It’s hard, you’ll get rejected a lot. Some people won’t like certain songs you have to be open to criticism but if you stick through it and focus, you’ll find out that you are exactly where you’re supposed to be and you’ll continue doing well in that space

We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?

So initially, I already had an Instagram that I was just randomly posting things on eventually though Eyes started posting up performance videos, and music videos, pretty consistently, creating different kinds of content, Constantly interacting with my audience, show support to other artists in the spaces as well. It doesn’t hurt to get a little help. I had a social media manager for 6 to 8 months who helped optimize my social media presence as well. The most important thing about creating a social media presence is realizing that social media isn’t a be over and all you can’t just live in the social media bubble we need to actually perform and interact and be able to generate income by either By selling tickets, or by selling merch. Once you get all that down social media gets a lot easier because people interact regardless.

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

I think a lot of people think that on you to have some success an artist that money just flows freely now to you and that you’re always there any income, but an artist most of the time unless they have a massive record deal or some kind of sponsorship don’t make a lot of money a lot of promoters and event organizers as you’re coming up or severely under pay you to keep their own pockets, fat and making it very demoralizing a lot of creative people, struggle with some kind of trauma or mental illness that’s why we make art and it can get very frustrating when you put your soul into something I want to get back scraps being an artist is not a financially lucrative endeavor. Unless you already have a plan or you already have some money going into it it’s because you love doing what you do and hoping one day off pay off so I’d like them to consider that every time they skip out on their friends events or say they’re going to go some thing and don’t . We are sharing pieces of our souls and hopes of making the world better.

Contact Info:

• Website: Coldestwynter.com
• Instagram: GrizzyWynter
• Facebook: Grizzy Wynter
• Twitter: OriginalGrizzly
• Youtube: Grizzy Wynter

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Meloway Snafuco Alexandra photoart