We were lucky to catch up with Rebekah Laur’en recently and have shared our conversation below.

Rebekah, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

All of my music projects are meaningful and have intention but my current project called “Late Summer Nights”, is my most meaningful project so far. I’m stepping out of my comfort zone and being my most musically authentic self while also telling my story from a healed, evolved, and emotionally mature view. Getting to this point in my creativity and life is a result of many hard falls, but my legs are much steadier, and I stand taller now. I see those trials were necessary for me to get to this part of my life and I want to share that.

With this project, I wanted to make music that made people feel good but that is also relatable. Much of the content is true stories many times repositioning myself in the storyline as me singing about others when truly, I am singing about me.

Rebekah, 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?

Music has always been a part of my life. I come from a very musical family and like many singers, I sang in church. I always just made up my own songs around the house as a kid and just sang them, which in turn, became how I started writing songs. When I was fourteen years old, a friend of the family, who produced music, noticed my talents and gifted me with music software for Christmas. I started making my own beats and would record my own songs all day everyday.

Some years later, my parents got me piano and voice lessons. I loved piano and kept practicing my piano, but voice was the major focus. My voice teacher started training me in Opera, I won a few competitions, and it became very serious. I studied Vocal Performance at Westminster Choir College where I gained much of my musical knowledge and training. Westminster was an amazing experience.

After college, I moved away from opera into another musical journey. I loved Opera but my love was writing my own original songs and I wanted to create something new, a new sound. As I grew into my craft and into myself, I continued to create original music which turned into composing and producing music with a unique sound and style placement of an alternative R&B artist.

It has not been an easy journey but I am very stubborn and determined. I truly do aim for my music to be a positive vibration in this realm. I remember when music made you feel. I want people to feel love, beauty, truth, vulnerability, and authenticity. I am grateful for the person and artist I am becoming more and more everyday.

We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?

Most of my social media audience was built from the live shows and also just connecting with people who found me through other posts and truly show support on my page. Live shows however, have proven to be a solid way to build my following as well as staying on top of my content and showing who you are as a person. I also send direct messages to my followers when they contact me directly and let them know when I will be performing again. They want to connect to an actual person not just a page.

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

It may sound cliche, but connecting with people through my music is the most rewarding aspect to me. I love how people relate to my music and can see themselves in the stories I tell.  A lot of people tell me it’s helped them through some tough times and that means something to me.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.rlmusik.com
• Instagram: @r.l_musik

Image Credits
Miru Images – Shannon Giles