We were lucky to catch up with Pedro Kayat recently and have shared our conversation below.

Pedro, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. When did you first know you wanted to pursue a creative/artistic path professionally?

I started my musical journey when I was a kid. My dad gave my mom an old piano as a gift and since then I started to learn cartoon theme songs, all by ear. Because of that, my grandpa, who played the flute realized that I had some potential, so he gave me my first keyboard and at 7 years old I had my first piano lesson. Two years later I got an electric guitar on Christmas and I fell in love with it. At that time, I realized that II wanted to do music for the rest of my life.

In 2013, my dad, Marcos Kayat, and I wrote a song called “Sozinho”, which we showed to the legendary bass player Arthur Maia, who promptly helped us to produce and record it at his own studio in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. That was my first experience stepping into a studio, which changed my life forever. All the gear, the instruments, and the environment made me feel so good and realize that I loved every step in the music-making process, from recording a demo to tracking different instruments and hearing the final version of the song. At that time, it really felt like magic, or even a superpower to be able to create something like that from thin air.

Pedro, 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’d say that the best way to summarize my work in a few words is by saying I make records. The most exciting thing for me is meeting an artist and being able to shape their ideas and get them out of their minds to transform them into music, which then can be shared with the world. I like to do everything from co-writing, producing, mixing, and recording, and I think each of those steps has a critical role in how the song will end up sounding. I love collaborating with different artists and musicians, because I really believe in combining everyone’s creativity, and unique musical backgrounds to create something new and exciting. That was one of the reasons me and my friends created “Favorite Song Records”, a music production company that is self-sufficient through the whole music-making process. We’ve worked with a lot of independent artists and made the original music for the short movie “The Way You Sea Me”. It’s so gratifying seeing this project being internationally acclaimed and winning different film festivals around the globe.

Apart from that project, I’ve had the pleasure of working with amazing artists, such as Jorge Aragão, Beanie Sigel, Sara Diamond, HeartBeats [Nicki Minaj, Jesy Nelson], George Garzone, Rodrigo Martins, Natalia Toache, Manny Moura, João Boiajion, C The Third, Nathan Dies, and many others that crossed my path. I am really grateful to be able to live my dream of creating music and being around talented and brilliant minds.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

My goal is to use art as a medium to help people who are struggling. I really believe that music has the power to change our life for the better, and I had a lot of personal experiences that can prove that. A lot of times in my journey when I felt lonely or unmotivated, music was always there for me and helped me see the bright side of things. The cathartic feeling people get when they listen to something they love is so important and beautiful. I feel very fortunate to be able to have the skills and bring those feelings and emotions to the listeners, and make someone’s life a tiny bit better, or just make them feel something, or even be present through music.

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

In my view, an artist should be appreciated and celebrated for having the power to convey emotions. I think society already does a really good job of supporting artists, but, the main issue is that they support the ones that are already on the top and forget about the upcoming ones. If their attention got shifted from the spotlight to their local venue, their creative friends, or even random creative people, the outcome would be very different.

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Ádan Santos, Alexx Nielsen