We recently connected with Tré Ahmad and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Tré thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Let’s kick things off with your mission – what is it and what’s the story behind why it’s your mission?

My mission as an artist is always to transform, adapt, evolve in order to ascend. As a queer and non-binary creative with generalized anxiety disorder, it feels critical for me to create open spaces for people similar to me to heal. I hope to build a caring and safe community so anyone within the LGBTQ+ community and/or individuals with mental health disorders won’t feel alone.

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?

My name is tré ahmad and simply put I’m an artist. I’m known around Charlotte, NC and surrounding areas for my music. I started writing songs around 7 years old and as I was turning 13 I strategically asked my family for my first laptop and a USB microphone for my birthday. At 14 age I recorded an album from from my room and burned the music onto blank CD’s to give out to my classmates. I’ve essentially been doing the same thing ever since. Only continuing to hone in on every skill I could learn through trial and error, books and the internet. I tell very introspective stories about my life that are carried by sounds familiar to fans of Hip-Hop, R&B and Pop. I’m most proud of my debut album ‘The Bedroom Popstar’ that I wrote, produced, recorded, mix and mastered from home with the help of my close friends. I would want any potential fan to know that my music and the community surrounding it is a safe space for them to be, exist and feel understood.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

The best story I could share that would illustrate my resilience is the story I told in my debut album. Spoiler alert: I was hospitalized and diagnosed with anxiety and depression. Upon learning this, I decided that in order to grow through what I was going through, I had to find a way to articulate my journey. It took almost 2 years of working night and day to create the finished version of that project. I had many moments where I wanted to quit and felt like I couldn’t do it and each time I dug a little deeper to pull something out of me that even I didn’t know I had. From conception to creation and lastly, distribution, it was the toughest project I’ve done and consequently the most rewarding.

How did you put together the initial capital you needed to start your business?

I feel like in whatever field you’re interested in that it’s important to put yourself in an environment that has something to do with where you want to be. As a recording artist of the 21st century I knew that I didn’t need to worry about capital as much as other fields. All I really need is a decent recording environment, a working laptop with a recording software on it and a good microphone. So to start my business I didn’t need much but there’s always places to improve. It was investing in my business and brand so that it grows that became more and more difficult as I got older. Luckily through learning as much as I did on my own, I was able to land a job in music as an audio engineer at a studio in Charlotte, NC. It was there that I was able to earn money to buy better recording equipment, pay for new software and plug-ins and invest in merchandise, album artwork, websites and everything else that independent artist typically have to pay for out of pocket.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/003tretre
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/003tretre/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/003tretre/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDEMGmH_sxGQMMgpYBgzxeg

Image Credits
Rudy Kovasckitz (Kovasckitz Brothers)