We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Jared Jones. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Jared below.
Jared, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Risking taking is a huge part of most people’s story but too often society overlooks those risks and only focuses on where you are today. Can you talk to us about a risk you’ve taken – it could be a big risk or a small one – but walk us through the backstory.
Back in September 2023 I moved to Atlanta, Georgia from the Midwest to chase my dreams and pursue my passions with music, content creation, and start businesses. I worked a lot of overtime with my 9-5 for a year during between 2022 and 2023. I saved up the money to be to fund this move on my own. I went to visit ATL 4 times in 2023 to find me a place and network with people. This was probably one of my best decisions I have made in my life. Some amazing things have happened since I moved to ATL. Like I recently got in the studio with R&B artist Kirko Bangz and we have a new song dropping this summer that I’m super excited about. I also transferred with my job down here. So I have meet some amazing people in my professional, creative and love life. So it’s definitely been a crazy ride so far since I have been living here
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?
Im a music artist born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. I got into music because I needed a way to express myself. I was adopted at birth and till this day I have never met my biological parents and so I just needed an outlet to express my pain and music became just that.
I make R&B/Hip Hop music. If I was to describe my music in 3 words I would say: Love, hustle and motivation. I picked those words because I’m a love boy I love making songs for women and I also make songs that’s going motivate you. My inspiration’s in . Music comes from people like Drake, wale, Michael Jackson, Lil Wayne, LL Cool Jay, Tupac, Missy Elliot, Biggy, Kanye West, Wizkid, Joe, Jon B, Prince, UGK, Biggie, Chris Brown, Nelly, and so much more.
Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?
Who you started your journey is not who you will end it with. I use to think my friends from my childhood and teenage years will be the people that’s with me today. But I learned over the years that you will meet new people and make new friends that will match where you are as a person and in life. Over the years I have no longer speak to friends I had from growing up either to life taking us separate paths or us having a fallout. I also learned that your enemies are sometimes the closest one to you. So that really taught me to keep my circle small
How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?
1.Staying consistent- This keeps you visible in people’s faces with the competition being very large.
2. Collaboration- collaboration is great I get to tap into other artists fanbase and they get to tap into mine which benefits the both of us. Bringing different talents together is a always a great recipe to make a great product
3. Social Media/Marketing-Social media is the way of the world now especially content creation. This is the best way for fans/supporters to see your brand and connect with you. You can connect with people in your country and people around the world. Millions of people around the world has some sort of social media.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: @jfreshstl
- Facebook: Jared J Jones
- Twitter: @jaredj314
- Youtube: @JaredJ8656
- Other: https://linktr.ee/JaredJMusic?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=f9a47054-5fdf-46fa-b2c7-a284d50ddb07
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