We recently connected with Giorgi and have shared our conversation below.

Giorgi, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. I’m sure there have been days where the challenges of being an artist or creative force you to think about what it would be like to just have a regular job. When’s the last time you felt that way? Did you have any insights from the experience?

I am happy as an artist, yes! In fact being an artist often feels like the only thing I can do well and for the long haul, or for hours at a time. Wealthy yet? No. Happy? Yes.

Sometimes when life becomes stressful and I’m wondering what will come next as an artist married to another artist having to provide for a growing family— I think about what life would be like if I’d chosen a steady career, something with a desk and boss.

I’m not vehemently opposed to the idea, and I guess I would if I absolutely had to, but creating is always at the forefront of my mind, I can’t switch it off.

I have to remind myself what life would be like with out music or art or fashion or even amazing food. Can you imagine? We wouldn’t have Gaudi, Picasso, Beethoven, dance , music, novels, I Love Lucy, Lin Manuel Miranda, films or one of my favorite singers of all time Gloria Estefan. That helps me remember in moments of self doubt how important creating and writing and singing is.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

My mom says I was singing before I could talk, so I’ve been doing it literally my whole life, but I guess I got my break into the music industry at 17 when I was “discovered” singing a solo in a church choir. The day I graduated high school I was on a plane to London to sign a record deal and begin my career as a pop artist- traveling, writing and recording in some very famous places like Geffen Records, Ocean Way, Metropolis, Nashville etc.

That era of my career lasted a long time, and I learned a lot as a young artist. Mostly what not to do and some what to do and how to operate within the music world and ultimately who I really wanted to be as an artist. It was an often awkward but valuable season of my life.

My recollection of music as a child is dancing in my living room to Gloria Estefan or while wearing my mothers colorful and long 90’s boho skirts— my dad painting in his art studio in the background, or singing and dancing to the music at family parties which usually consisted of Ranchera or Mariachi.

I come from a very large Latin family (Mexican American) and I’ve always been really proud of that. I guess it’s only natural that I ended up marrying a Latino/Italian and that we now write and record English/Spanish pop music together, we call ourselves TU. The rhythm got me (pun intended).

We now own and run a recording studio in Santa Monica CA called Newvine Music and are growing our family. I have to say I’m most proud of what we have created with our life in our home, studio, family and I’m excited for more people to get to know who we are, who I am, our music and our story.

What can society do to ensure an environment that’s helpful to artists and creatives?

I read an article about a study they did on successful artists (painters) but I think the outcome is very relevant to any sort of artist.

The study found that the success of an artist was little to do with their creativity and more to do with their circle of friends.
Basically the friends they knew and the willingness of those friends to share their works had more impact on their success and worldwide reach than the level of their creativity.

I would say to society, support your artist friends because studies show you have a lot to do with their success and reach. Even if you think reposting social media content or talking about your friends work is insignificant… it goes further than you can imagine.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

I think the biggest thing I’ve had to unlearn is a lack of discipline and organization.

I used to only create when I felt inspired and what that did was create long pauses between releases and stagnation– that’s probably the worst thing to do when you’re trying to get people to notice your work. I also never used to have release goals for the amount of songs I wanted to put out into the world each year.

Since having my daughter my time to create music is really very limited so I’ve had to force myself to create even when I feel uninspired. I set release goals in advance for each month so that I know what I am working towards and as a result I think I’ve been more creative with less time on my hands.

I do the same thing with my husband since we also have a recording studio to run and our band TU. Certain days are dedicated to studio or to our music and we try to stick to it. Obviously life is life but having an awareness discipline has been a game changer.

Contact Info:

• Website: Www.tumusicofficial.com
• Instagram: @tumusicofficial @giorgiporgi
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@TU.?si=V6pGg7dZlyEnAnxV
• Other: Www.newvinemusic.com

Image Credits
Tamara Muth King Vicki Lalane