We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Nevan Landeros. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Nevan below.
Nevan, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Did you always know you wanted to pursue a creative or artistic career? When did you first know?
I feel there was always a pull towards music for me it was always something that intrigued me and felt like I never had to think too hard about. It started in 6th grade as a hobby and wasn’t until high school that I started to think about it professionally. I didn’t realize how much i was holding in and it came out through my lyrics. I put a lot of my energy into partying, drinking and drugs and I almost failed some classes because I would just sit and write verses. When I was writing it felt like the only time I could express myself and continued to go deeper and feel better about it and I wanted all the time I could to pursue that.
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
My name is Nevan. I moved to the bay area at a young age from the central valley, grew up mostly with a single mom and sister. My mom’s boyfriend bought me a guitar in elementary school and I didn’t try it out for 2 years until a girl told me she liked guys who played guitar. I grew up having every divorced kids experience I feel like, I’d listen to my Dads old tapes in the car when my time had to be split between parents. I was going to school to do music business/ entertainment law and stopped going when my Dad passed away. That was around the time where I decided to put my focus into music, that was in 2019. Shortly after I moved and currently reside in LA. I produce music, and have done audio engineering for various artists, but my main focus is my artist ventures and learning more about marketing in a sense.
I feel I can help artists with a creative direction and can lend a good ear I want to learn all aspects of my career and wear all the hats before I give the responsibility to someone else.
Im proud of being able to execute things I have in my head and create the way I see it in my head, sometimes inspiring people around me. Proud of my growth as an artist but I’ve only realized when looking back at previous works as my focus on what I haven’t done takes over.
We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.
Maybe when I was living in DTLA I got overly comfortable with having people go up on the roof where the helicopter pad was. In turn got evicted and didn’t have the finances to prepare for that, ended up luckily being able to crash on a friends couch for a couple months. It felt like a reality check and an all time low, within that though it pushed me to put that tumultuous time into music and probably made some of my best music in that period.
Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can provide some insight – you never know who might benefit from the enlightenment.
I think this is something I’m currently in the process of learning. I think especially now, with how much you have to do not in the creative realm to pursue the industry. How much you have to do to put yourself out there, which doesn’t come naturally to me probably a lot of artists as well. I think it’s something we do to get past and overcome feeling introverted, gaining validation or expressing yourself in a way you can’t do in your everyday life. I don’t think creatives and non creatives exist I think it’s how much you allow yourself to play, it’s inside everyone it’s just how much you put your focus on it.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nevanbrant_?igsh=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@nevanbrant?si=o2R6gc_nnwndkhPW
- Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@nevanbrant?_t=8jpwz7NTRJz&_r=1
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