We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Simona Dimov a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Simona , appreciate you joining us today. Do you wish you had started sooner?

Yes I totally wish I would have started working in music way earlier in my life. As a child you learn things so effortlessly. However I must also say that me going through a lot of experiences that were not necessarily related to any creative work gave me life experience that I can now implement into my writings and execution of music in general.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I feel like my life has become the most Hollywood American dream cliche story and I’m honestly loving it. I grew up as a daughter to Bulgarian immigrants in a small town in Germany, always being drawn to all forms of art but never having had the opportunity and access to pursue it. From a young age on my imagination was very vivid and I have always been writing until I finished high school, got accepted into law school expecting it to be the real life “Legally Blonde” (which is totally wasn’t) and then decided that I feel like a prisoner of my mind and needed to escape. Against everyone’s advice I dropped out, moved to LA with nothing but a suitcase (full with now looking back pretty ugly clothes), living on a couch, started working at a juice bar, then went on to hostess and serving jobs until I connected to quite some people and shot my first movie. From there on I randomly connected to people in the music industry as I was trying to produce songs out of my writings. From that point on I started working mainly in entertainment which ended up being many things but glamorous but I wouldn’t want it any way because I was forced to figure things out and to grow as a person and artist. Now I moved into a beautiful place and I am in a way better place mentally and physically. What I am proud of is that I found a way to produce music that I love, that matches all kinds of different life experiences and moods of mine and that allows me to be me and free without being too concerned about what other people might say.

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

Not creating creative work makes me feel like I am suffocating so doing so literally gives me air, life and purpose. It feels like eating the most delicious meal when you’ve been starving.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

I had to learn to let go and just move on. I would be too attached to things even if it’s just a piece of clothing that had been rotting in my closet for years with the price tag still on it. At least to me the speed at which I write is really fast and therefore I would create so many writings such as poetry, songs, short stories, script outlines, etc. The problem was that I felt like I HAD to execute all of these projects and that it had to be exactly the way I wrote it. Now I sometimes come up with better ideas as I am going and can leave great ideas behind me without feeling like I am wasting anything because I know there will always be another one. The less antsy about everything I would be the more things would actually have a positive outcome. It really hit me when I was working on a song idea that I had written out and the instrumentation went into a completely different direction that I did love to a point where no matter how hard I tried, the vocals and the beat just wouldn’t match. And then I just switched up what I had written and it ended up being way better than what I had even thought of before. My entire writing process improved so much after I wasn’t trying to force things anymore and just relaxed and went with the flow.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simonadimov/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU_JKOYnTRTIFTdKvRYyt-w
• Other: https://open.spotify.com/track/2eTYKAbGK6iZt9IV62UN18?si=lNp64lXQRKCMfYLnqQj5_w

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Maxine Bowen Skillar