We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful The Ceasars. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with The Ceasars below.

The Ceasars, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Are you able to earn a full-time living from your creative work? If so, can you walk us through your journey and how you made it happen?

Yes, but it took time and you have to be smart about it, like every other freelance job. One thing that is definitely important is to try to diversify the ways you’re making money. As a music producer, besides songwriting and production you have mixing or mastering engineering, sync for tv, movies or ads and many more ways that might feel less “exciting” but that can sustain you, especially while trying to establish yourself. Also – while staying in the same world you’ll end up meeting like-minded people and other musicians, artists, etc.

The Ceasars, 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?

We are Paolo “Ceasar” Catoni and Marco “PStarr” Pistella, aka The Ceasars, a duo of music producers, born and raised in Italy and now based in Los Angeles. We started working together around 2009-2010 but we’ve been friends our all life. Marco started off as an artist and transitioned to being a producer/songwriter, Paolo started off as a producer when he was in his early teens. We moved to LA in 2017, back home we had established our name in the music industry through the years working with some of the biggest artists in the country, with a few gold and platinum records in the process. We also worked in movie scoring and got nominated and won some of the most prestigious awards in the country. Our goal since the beginning was to work with artists here in the States though.
Our biggest strength is definitely our point of view, we come from totally different music backgrounds (and from another country) so our take on sounds and ideas is always different and fresh.

How can we best help foster a strong, supportive environment for artists and creatives?

Actually listen to the music and try to support the artists. Buy the merch, buy the physical copies, go to the shows. The smaller the artist the more you should do this. With streaming and social media the attention span of the average person went dramatically down, an album that took a year, sometimes YEARS to make gets forgotten in a few days. We’d love for people to really commit to the music, live with it and don’t take it for granted.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

The goal is, and has always been, to create the best and most honest music possible, which sound way easier than it actually is. There’s a lot of noise distracting you when you’re creating and it’s really hard to focus on doing simply something that you like without trying to appeal to a bigger audience or following the latest trend or some other thing that has nothing to do with what your job really is.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.theceasars.com
• Instagram: instagram.com/theceasars
• Facebook: facebook.com/theceasars
• Twitter: twitter.com/theceasars

Image Credits
Photos by Aleksander “Kela” Egizii / IG: @kela.oc