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

JonFlëtch, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

It all started from learning how to make beats at the local boys& girls club that I went to. After a couple of years I bought my first microphone and started learning how to mix my vocals. It was all trial and error. Using songs that I enjoy on a daily as a reference point for my songs to sound and going back and forth between them until I that sweet spot I was looking for. Definitely a lot of picking up from YouTube tutorials. The most essential skill to have in making music is patience. You will need a lot of patience because you’re not always going to get the sound right in one go and it will drive you nuts. Best thing to do is to be patient with yourself when creating.

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

It all started from uploading music to YouTube and getting into the Facebook community groups. At the time I was making everything for myself (beats, songs, gfx, album covers, etc.) since I had limitations on sources to get them done by a professional. Things went uphill when one of my first music videos got noticed by a bigger YouTuber and because of that, it garnered up to 15k views. That was one of my first proud moments which had me thinking, “I could really take off with this and get more listeners.” What people can expect from me is that I’m real DIY (do it yourself) heavy with all the stuff I put together.

How can we best help foster a strong, supportive environment for artists and creatives?

They need to actually pay their artists or put artists onto more opportunities. People and platforms take artists for granted way too much for what we do. Also, more people need to use bandcamp.com over streaming platforms. Spotify and any distribution platform only pays an artist half a penny per stream sometimes lower than that. I feel like BandCamp is a better option for fans to purchase music and us artists can actually earn our money the right way.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

Something I had to unlearn was making music to impress other rappers or producers. I feel like I was doing myself a disservice by trying to check all boxes of what a good artist is instead of just making stuff that my fans would enjoy. Other musicians in the past would harp on whatever flaw there is or how it’s not technically perfect when in reality your listeners are not going to know or care as long as it sounds good. Side note, you start learning that the most over critical person you come across almost always never puts their own music out themselves. So it’s best to just do what is working for you.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://thisisjonfletch.bandcamp.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisisjonfletch_
• Twitter: https://x.com/thisisjonfletch
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@jonfletch
• Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/whoisflxtch

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