We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Liat Freidberg. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with liat below.

Hi Liat, thanks for joining us today. We’d love to hear about when you first realized that you wanted to pursue a creative path professionally.

I actually knew from a really young age. I was singing and dancing as a kid, performing in front of my family, participated in school performances and later at 11 years old started writing my own songs. I would give credit to my mom and sister that always had music playing in the house. Both of them loved dancing. My mom, till not long ago, had a dancing partner who she used to go ballroom dancing with for many years. During grade school I was mostly in dance classes but in middle school i started talking guitar classes and focused a lot on song writing with my best friend who also played guitar. In high school we started performing in bars and eventually started a progressive rock/grange band.

Liat, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I was born and raised in Israel. started writing songs at the age of 11. The high school I attended was mostly an art school similar to fame and thats where I started taking music more seriously as I was surrounded with extremely talented people. At the end of high school i started my own ska band which was a genre that wasn’t popular in Israel at the time but i tend to be drawn to do what no one else is doing :) The band, Cuban B, was an immediate hit. Our first show was in front of 300 people who to our surprise was mushing and going crazy over our music. Every show after that was bigger and bigger. Having a band with 7 “kids” was extremely hard but we kept going do to the love and support of the fans. At the time I was doing my mandatory time in the army and focused my free time all into self development and music. It wasn’t easy giving most of my time and energy at the peak of my life to a “job” that I didn’t really enjoy doing when I knew exactly what I wanted do and been preparing for my whole life. I felt like my talents were going to waste at a job that was not interesting or challenging to me in any way. when I was done with my army service I attended a music school equivalent to Berkley for about 2 years where I mostly focused on song writing and producing. During those years there weren’t any female artists that were producing themselves. I was the only one in my song writing class that brought beats instead of guitar or piano. After I finished 2 years in that school I moved to LA and continued my studying in Musicians Instate in Hollywood where I focused mostly on Voice lessons. Since I moved to LA I got to perform at the legendary Warped Tour, collaborated and went on tour with Kool Keith, sang in a Coca Cola commercial and released many singles and had many performances. I’m mostly proud of the fact I stuck through it even when times were ruff.

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

I mostly write about my life lessons. In songs such as The One which talks about taking responsibility for your life and not seeing yourself as a victim, Everything And Nothing which talks about self acceptance, Ridin’ Low which talks about a toxic relationship that I was in and Sky Is Da Limit which again talks about owning up to your mistakes and not letting anyone drag you down. During extreme terror attacks Israel experienced, I wrote a few songs such as Untouchable. This subject is something I’m very passionate about and been researching it extensively since October 7th massacre. I was living in Israel at the time of the massacre and was extremely scared for my life. That attack ended up making me return to the US. In the past I have written a few songs about the subject that will be released in my doubt solo album coming out in the next few months.

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

When you finish a song and listen back is very rewarding. sometimes I listen to my songs and feel like I’m a genius lol But there is also the opposite of that, when you work on a song and cant make it sound right. When that happens I usually put the song a side and let time do its thing. I could get back to a song with a good idea years later.
The second rewarding aspect is seeing peoples reactions to the music: Singing along, DMing me and telling me how much they like it and such. its the best feeling. you feel like your time and energy wasn’t wasted on something that only you like and some days you don’t even like your own art, So when someone else likes it, it feels like your living your purpose.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://lihotmusic.com
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/lihotmusic
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Lihotmusic
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LihotMusic
• Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/lihotmusic
• Other: https://lihot.bandcamp.com/

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