We were lucky to catch up with Michel Alvarez recently and have shared our conversation below.

Michel , appreciate you joining us today. I’m sure there have been days where the challenges of being an artist or creative force you to think about what it would be like to just have a regular job. When’s the last time you felt that way? Did you have any insights from the experience?

I’m extremely happy to be able to call myself an artist, but with that comes a lot of doubts and uncertainty. I currently work a regular job to help support my family and my dream and I always wonder how someone can just accept the fact they have to “work the rest of there lives” especially something they don’t enjoy. I watched my parents work jobs that really wore them out but they had to do what was necessary to make a living for themselves and me. I noticed a lot growing up about work and how hard you have to work to survive. It made me realize that having a passion in life was very important. I’m almost to the point where I can focus solely on my career and make a stable income from it so working a regular job can finally be a thing of the past. Being happy in what you do for living has always been important to me, even if it is a “regular job” and you love to do it everyday then that’s the goal. That’s all I plan to teach my sons, just be happy at what you do. No one can take that from them.

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

Well I’m a Phoenix native I was born and raised here and I sincerely love this state with all my heart. I grew up always being creative, like drawing, music, imagination the most. I always loved to play with my cousins something that required our imagination. When I went to high school I got introduced to poetry and that’s where my mind was completely blown. I never quite understood what a metaphor was until that day and from that point on music changed forever. I’ve always loved hip-hop music since I was a little boy, and would sing or rap my heart out any chance I got, but after learning how poetry really worked and how it has everything to do with hip-hop and rap, everything that I listened to had a much meaningful and deeper impact. I go to college and kind of get forced to rap on the way to school and that’s how it all began for me. I first thought it was just really cool to put words together and make them sound cool, but then I started to realize that I could really draw a picture for my listener just with the words that I would say, and that’s when the idea of making music came in to play. I was fortunate to meet two friends they also were interested in music and we just dove right in, we would skip class and just go make music. Then finally one day I decided to start making my own CD to give out to all my friends and family. The reactions were everything I needed to keep it pushing and keep trying to get better. A decade later and I now have multiple albums out as well as videos and the impact of my music has been nothing less than life changing. From just being related to, to having a song that saved someone’s life, my music has helped, inspired so many others. I always was a great motivator and I feel my music can relate, I always want to convey to my listener that they are great and can do anything in life. It’s what I tell my sons everyday, it’s what was told to me once as a young child, something I’ll never forget.

I’m very proud of the artist I’ve become, I’m known in the community as well spoken and very humble and it took a lot of patience to get here, now with gods help, I can have my own full running recording studio for myself, and more importantly the community. Soon enough, for now, it’s more music videos and new music. If there is anything I want a new fan to know before listening, it’s that it’s very possible to be the person you see yourself as, just gotta take that first step.

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

The most rewarding aspect for me are the listeners reactions to songs us artist least expect. When making a project you always think this record is gonna get this response, this record will get this one, etc. then you finally release a project and the songs you least expected get the most relatable reactions. It’s what makes the making of my music so constant, no matter how i try to structure a song, the listener will still listen to it how they perceive it, and that is always rewarding because I’ve found my music does way more than what I always try to convey in my rhymes. Just the uniqueness in the perception of every song to each listener is so beautiful, it’s like a thousand conversations get sparked off a record you made.

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

Spread the word!! Word of mouth to me is still one of the most effective ways to get your sound, record, art heard or seen. Being told by someone you know to check out this artist, artwork, etc, is a lot more impactful than being sent a link by the artist. Interacting between artist and fan are way more easier than before, and sharing content really does go a long way for an independent artist. Promotional campaigns are a must, but for a lot of beginning artist the money is just not there yet to properly get tue word out. Simply sharing on various platforms of social media can really do numbers for an artist and possibly put there artwork in the lap of that one person they needed to meet. You never know. I’d rather support someone I know or can get to know way easier than a artist that is famous that will never even know my name or that I even like there music like that.

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