We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Jay-P Gallo a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Jay-P, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Can you open up about a risk you’ve taken – what it was like taking that risk, why you took the risk and how it turned out?

Way back when, I was living paycheck to paycheck. I went from one job to the next to be able to pay my living and still have some time to do something that seemed give me a little more purpose. Music and art deserved all my time but I just didn’t seem to be able to find any time for stuff like that. Reality isn’t for the artist, hence the artist designs new worlds where they can expand in a better existence. Reality teaches the creative that art and music are free and that to be able to make money out of this and live to be creative, the creative doesn’t just have to breathe the lifestyle, but to get out of their comfort zone. On 2017, after an unexplainable malfunction in my body, I bled out over 60% of my blood and was on cardiac arrest for around 15 minutes. The doctors saved me. When I came back I told my partner we were moving to New York; we saved up money for around four months and moved. There, I continued my life the same way as I was living it where I was before and I was in the same awful position of not being able to live a fulfilled life. My partner and I split and she moved back to her home country.

I was left with nothing else to lose… I lost my life, I lost my love. and wondered <<Why would I take myself so seriously?>> So I quit both my jobs and jumped in the pit with the wolves. With no explanation at all I was making a living out making music a week and a half later. It only takes one hop, and this was it for me.

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

If I were going to speak in terms of career, the best way to describe me would be as a record producer and sound engineer. I work with artists to materialize the worlds inside their heads. We record the music, play the instruments, mix the instruments together, make them sound good and put them together into albums or singles. I have met extremely talented musicians such as Zillakami, John Legend, Mike Dean Fab Dupont and Denzel Curry and have had the honor of working with them throughout my career.

If I were to speak in the terms of how I understand what I do, the best place to start would be by saying that I do nothing but what I want, I write songs, I paint pianos (literally), draw, cook produce tracks, mix records and film videos. With the previously mentioned and numerous others, somehow, I’ve been able to make the world my playground and have made art around the world being inspired by beautiful situations and amazing people.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

For some years now, I’ve been coming to the realization that I have no purpose. This might sound a little dramatic, but it actually makes me really happy and keeps me going in what I do. I don’t do things for a goal, for a means to an end or to be able to get somewhere but rather, I do what I can because I can and because there is nothing stopping me. I could waste a bunch of my time looking for the reasons to why I do things but I would much rather invest that time into making something beautiful or wasting my time in a magnificent way as long as I am doing what I want.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

Absolutely everything. As creatives, we take a leap into the world of the unknown, into a world in which new worlds are born every moment and the next thing is always around the corner ready to be uncovered. Life isn’t easy, we know it and we’re here to make it beautiful, to dream and take note, to explain the unexplainable and start new endeavors. I respect those who have decided not to walk a creative path and their life is beautiful too and as creatives we are inherently the ones who pave the future of humanity and those who walk on it. Being a creative is not simply creating music, art or content, it is to create culture and guide generations of monkeys just like us.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.jptwopointo.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jptwopointo/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAgUE_HlFZJPBz0kgp-lTBQ
• Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ToxyXQYe3fRFTYanpXsz6?si=F-O-8fHXTsmkWljY7yn_kg

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