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

Siineo , 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?

Id say I always had a sort of passion or natural draw to music and the construction of putting it altogether. I was always surrounded by music growing up, mainly by my father. He would listen to a lot of different styles of music. So kind of naturally I started writing poems and raps but unfortunately I didn’t really have the support for it and was more focused on sports. Wasn’t until right before I had my son in 2020 I found myself in a good place were I could pursue it. I honestly just needed the motivation and that was my son fasho. I want him to see that you should do everything you dream of while we are here on this Earth especially the things that give you life an purpose.

Siineo , 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?

I would say to the people who don’t know about me or is being introduced to me for the first time that I am someone who just loves the way music can travel through every cell of your body to give you a sense of satisfaction or gratification. I also love the art of music that is used to express your feelings, situation and even your dreams. I was born and raised in South Louisiana. I traveled back and fort from the sugar can fields in the country known as Back Vacherie being at my grandmother house to the West Bank of New Orleans to be with my mother. I grew up on such a long spectrum of music from house music, Bob Marley, Prince, Michael Jackson, zydeco to Tupac, Scarface, and a whole lot of R&B. I decided one day in 2019 before my son was born that I was going to go out and grab all the tools, the mic, computer, speakers and start on a path that I felt was long over due. I would like for people to be able to enjoy my music by getting something out of it. Whether its that they relate to it or find motivation and comfort in it. I do not define myself as a rapper or singer I honestly just feel like an artist when I make music because I don’t write or construct for an agenda I do what’s pleasing my soul.
The thing I am most proud of is myself and the confidence that my God has given me. I truly believe that as long as I make music with Jesus in my heart, then I can be satisfied to whatever story is written.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

Something that I feel has been a really defining moment in not just my musical path but my life as a whole is loosing my mother. My mother passed away in May of 2022. My mother has always been my biggest supporter and I would say crutch in life in kind of a way. Because no matter what happen or how I was feeling about myself on anything that I did and didn’t accomplish she was there to make me feel like I was always meant for greatness and greatness was in me. When I decided to start my musical journey she was so supportive. She came to any show that she could without hesitation and always asked about my music. I can’t lie to say that once she passed I questioned sometimes if I still wanted to share my art and if it was even worth sharing. My mother was also the major spiritual influence in my life. So I truly felt once she passed and noticed I was struggling she reminded me of who God is and what she always told me about his love. I started to remember how her faith had never wavered to the very end and that she left the world a loving soul to everyone who knew her. So that is my mission is to live like my mother praising God and making people feel love through my music.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

I would say the most rewarding thing about being a creative is the sense of freedom. I feel like as a society we are almost always taught how to view things, speak, act. People tell us what we should like and what fits into our accetable standards for how the world views us. When I go to sit in front my computer and listen to beats to write my next song I loose the sense of wanting to be accepted and receive creative freedom to express. I truly feel the freest when my mind isn’t calculating the correct moves for my day to day but instead having a bunch of random words, melodies concepts that is slowly getting formed into a pleasing track. Also I have never been a real expressive person but with music I am able to formulate my feelings, emotions, thoughts all to where they can be received by a listener who would otherwise have no understanding to what I was trying to say otherwise.

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