We recently connected with Ryan Bronson and have shared our conversation below.

Ryan, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today We’d love to hear about when you first realized that you wanted to pursue a creative path professionally.

The first time I stepped on stage. I had only recorded a few songs at that point. And they weren’t good. At all.

But I landed a show near my college town in Rochester, NY & as soon as I was up there I was like yup. No going back to a normal job after this. And it’s been pedal to the floor ever since.

Ryan, 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?

Well at a young age I needed a vent for my anxiety & depression issues. I had always played with poetry so music & hip hop kinda followed as a hobby as that writing passion grew.
I was always busy/distraction with sports, but after an injury to my shoulder while playing college baseball – the free time was more available & the anxiety & depression & active mind needed someplace else to focus its energy.

That’s when I really started taking the music thing more serious & the more I did it the more I fell in love with it.
I figured if I can help some people through music the way music helps me – then im doin the right things.

Do you think there is something that non-creatives might struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can shed some light?

Definitely. I think non-creatives don’t view creative work as real work most of the time.

Labor jobs are very demanding and are extremely hard work and I’m sure labor workers come home with sore bodies.

Creative work is very mentally demanding, takes a strain on the mental health & stamina & creatives come home mentally drained & exhausted. It’s a lot harder to see mental strain – I think that’s where the (when are you going to get a real job) question comes into play from people. I hate that question. I work from the second I wake up until the second I shut my eyes lol. And even sometimes dream about my work.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

I think humans naturally are resilient, but I think my whole story itself is resilient.

A lot of people pick something up and put it right down.

I’ve been working at this career for 10 years now, I hear way more no’s than I do Yes’s, I have a lot of people who hate on and don’t like what I do.
But the people who love what I do and who are inspired from it make all that worth it.

But one specific story is probably in 2015 – I had spent some time in a mental hospital, and a week after I got out of it, I had a music festival near my hometown that I helped coordinate, that I was also performing at. So I was coordinating that whole festival with a friend and then performing an hour set fresh out of a mental hospital visit.

Contact Info:

• Website: Www.RyanBronson.com
• Instagram: Instagram.com/iam_RyanBronson
• Facebook: Facebook.com/ryanbronsonmusic
• Twitter: Twitter.com/iam_RyanBronson
• Youtube: YouTube.com/RyanBronsonMusic24
• Other: TikTok.com/iam_RyanBronson

Image Credits
Photos by Cecily McWilliams