We recently connected with Jonathan Brown and have shared our conversation below.

Jonathan , looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. How did you learn to do what you do? Knowing what you know now, what could you have done to speed up your learning process? What skills do you think were most essential? What obstacles stood in the way of learning more?

I was always drawn to music growing up. It started with drums as my main instrument, I would always sing jokingly around my family and friend. When I was about 13 I met a guy named Hezekiah Trevino at a church I was going to at the time. He was the music director at the church, He spent a lot of time pouring into me and teaching me things, providing me with resources to learn, and helping me develop myself. If I could have sped up any part of the process I would def have taken more time to grow in knowledge to have a better understanding earlier that I do now.

The skills that I found the most essential would just be the ability to listen and adapt. Growing up around musicians especially in the church setting, as long as you’re paying attention you can learn a lot from the people you play with. An obstacle that got int he way with that would def have to be just my age. When you’re young and you work with people older than you, you lose a lot in the aspect of respect because you’re not mature enough, you just become every persons kid brother. That being the case, sometimes it was a reliability issue to bring me out past a certain. Or to do anything really. especially having a strict mother.

Jonathan , 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 am a singer/ songwriter/ producer. I make my own music and have the opportunity to work with a few high end artist behind the scenes. As for my own music I work with friends from time to time but mainly work alone. I haven’t done any shows, mainly because I don’t really know how to market myself and that’s something that I’m working on. I think I am set apart from a lot of people because I keep it real with myself. If my music sounds trash I will scrap a whole project I spent hours on and start over. I’m not afraid to ask for others honest opinion and correction, I refuse to put out anything that isn’t showing improvement. I believe in quality over quantity.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

When I create music it’s not just to make things that sound good. I’m not throwing out nonsense. Instead I like to make music that’s gonna reach people. I write a majority from my own life experience in hopes that what I have been through will help someone through a moment in their life. The most rewarding part is when someone reaches out to me to tell me just that. It’s good to know the goal of my music even if it is for a small crowd right now is doing what it’s intended to do.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

The goal is the reach the masses. A lot of my work has been my life story but after my next project I will be transitioning into making music about my faith. I believe that I was given gift and I want to use that gift to reach people more than just spilling my life to know end.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: Jonbrownofffical

Image Credits

Grace Carey is a deep friend of mine who took these photos