We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Luke Atme a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Luke, appreciate you joining us today. It’s always helpful to hear about times when someone’s had to take a risk – how did they think through the decision, why did they take the risk, and what ended up happening. We’d love to hear about a risk you’ve taken.
If you divided the world into those who prefer to stay in the confort zone and keep behind the line, and those who stand out and follow their guts, I definitely belong to the last. But unfortunately that does also mean taking risks constantly. As a matter of fact, I decided to take a risk since the early age of 18 when I decided to leave my country and go studying music abroad. I could have pursued an “obvious” career able to give me good earnings straight after graduation, but instead I just wanted to live my life doing what makes me happy and here I am. Still now, I do lot of experiments with my music, I always switch into new genres and discover new way of composing. Creating is my thing, and I do feel afraid of the audience’s reaction when I put out something different, but at least it comes from deep within me and it’s all pure and genuine. This new EP I’m dropping Feb 21 is going to show a new persona, or simply myself viewed from a different perspective. I am taking a risk, but if people see through you, they will surely vibe with you and get the message that you want to transmit.
Luke, 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 have always been very passionate about music, when I was a teenager I used to save up money to pay my dance and singing classes, so right after I finished high school I went persuing a degree course in London in Popular Music Performance. Since I finished the course I have just been releasing music, I have been discovering myself during this process, it took me places I could have never got to otherwise. I worked with different artists, producers all around the world and I am really happy for all the skills I’ve learned and for the musician I have become thanks to that. It has definitely not been an easy journey, and you know working in the music industry is a two-faced scenario, you can express yourself in the most authentic way but you also gotta entertain the public and follow the conventional stereotypes the industry want to convey you as. But I never really fitted into any category, in good or bad, I have just been myself all the way through. So that’s probably what I’m most proud of, and every new release is just a little push forward to reach new listeners and fans that can relate to my music and what I sing about.
Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?
At a point in my career, in 2022 most precisely, I was fighting a totally unfair battle for some of my music copyrights. It was a big deal for me, I was being allocated against some huge company and I felt like a small mosquito just put there with no possibility to defend himself. It was devastating to be honest, I stopped writing songs and I had no power or voice for just over a year. My songs were being taken down and all the hard work which of ages just disappeared into nothing. It was a time when I just felt constantly lost, trying to regain what was mine, I spent the whole year making sure of how to come out of this and winning the cause. Thanks God I did win it at the end, as obvious as it is, I love writing and composing lyrics and melodies, and I do own the copyrights to all my music catalog now, which I couldn’t quite understand before how it worked. I was about to quit when this unexpected obstacle fell on my path, but my passion drove me through it and I’m thankful that I’ve been so resilient and still am til now. In this business you gotta keep hustling and never give up.
What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?
The most rewarding aspect of being a creative is genuinely being able to put out your emotions and convert them into art. Eventually people connect to that and that art evolves into a message being transmitted to the world. By then, it becomes much more than art or music, it builds up a community with ideals and beliefs. I am lucky to be a part of that, and I will always keep it real and show up for what I believe in. This new EP of mine marks a turning point for my music, I’m finally coming out and showing myself as I really am, with no filters whatsoever. If it can incentive people out there to be unapologetically themselves ,then I can say there ain’t nothing more rewarding than that. I appreciate you guys for taking time and giving me the chance to present myself and my music . “Sin Filtros” out Feb 21st on all platforms, check it out.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/imlukeatme
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/imlukeatme
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- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lukeatmevevo6024
- Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/08SQk9Ia4tC74Ikt3k4JTT?si=uDbhkSEFRiSjyu84C7JuzQ
