We recently connected with Jay Horn and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Jay, thanks for joining us today. 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?

Being creative has its ups and downs like any other career. The difference is you work for yourself, so you are contracted often if you have talent, and not so much if you don’t. But you are under so much scrutiny, you have to have very tough skin to be creative in this day and time. There isn’t much encouragement until you are recognized as a certified artist. The money that can be made is very lucrative, but sometimes you have to think is it worth it. I say that because you are only as good as your last work. An if your last work isn’t in the last year or so, your relevancy dies as well as your money and so you have to learn the business side of things so that when money does come in from your work, you know what to do with it to not go broke.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I don’t think there are enough letters available for me to tell my story in its entirety, so I’m going to try to give a brief summary. I am the oldest of 3 boys and we all have some type of artistic talent that wasn’t discovered until our late teens. I gravitated more to sports because I felt like that was the way out of a poverty-stricken lifestyle. For the most part, my professional sports career was the highlight of my life, but never panned out financially. So I ventured into the hair industry and went to the top of that profession, servicing high-end celebrity clients in barbering and hair styling services for women. Again, another industry that didn’t pan out chasing family values and love. So as a hustler who found love, I ventured into the financial world to become a Senior Accountant for the number 2 steel company in the world, Anvil Steel, where I managed over 500 million dollars a quarter. While making millions for others and getting paid pennies to do it, I decided that I would take a chance on my own. When my oldest son graduated high school, he was in the top 100 basketball recruits in the nation. This sparked my interest in helping other kids get scholarships because of all the coaches trying to get my son. This interest made me study media and ways to engage others to expose these unseen talents. Fast forward to 2019 when I decided to move my family to Los Angeles from Texas to pursue a career in TV and Film, which many thought I had gone insane. I knew what I wanted to do. Now here I am building the career that I came here to build while adding an awesome social media presence and now adding music production to that resume. I just love art and I want to do it for the rest of my life.

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

Society supports things that they perceive as important. So in my opinion it’s up to the artist to create palatable entertainment for the masses. Asking society to change their values towards us artists, is like asking your mother to look at you differently after knowing you for 15 years. I would have to show my mother, by my actions, that she could trust me in another space. So I think that if the artist puts out great content, and society is looking for that type of content, then the system will thrive. As long as the higher-ups control the narrative with mainstream media, the artists, creatives, and the ecosystem will crumble under financial pressure to be the one and only. We are listening.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

To be honest, I don’t think I have tasted the financial impact of my presence and the content that I make. So Im pushing for stability and generational wealth for my bloodline. I want to leave a mark on the world to be remembered as one of the greatest to do it.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.jayhornfilms.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jay.j.horn
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jayhornfilm
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/jayhornfilms
• Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/jayhornfilms
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfsqGTuR0nuVVBt2J_bChWA

Image Credits
JAY HORN FILMS LLC