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

Hi XOË, thanks for joining us today. Did you always know you wanted to pursue a creative or artistic career? When did you first know?

I’ve always been involved in anything creative, whether it was performing in school plays or writing “books” in my free time as a child. I knew I wanted to do music full time after I went to a songwriting camp, where you got to write, record, and perform your own original song in front of an audience. It was so much fun, and everything was kind of a snowball effect after that. People started contacting my mom and offering me gigs when I was 14, so I’ve for sure gotten extremely lucky when it comes to being able to do music full time.

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?

Growing up, my mom always had music playing around the house, anywhere from Taylor Swift to Foo Fighters concert movies, so I was really always surrounded by it! I loved doing elementary school plays and putting on “concerts” for my family. I even “tried” piano lessons at one point, but got bored because they wouldn’t let me play the songs that I wanted to play… so I got frustrated, LOL (didn’t last long). But, the second I saw Hannah Montana premiere on TV I was like “oh my god, that’s what I want to do!” So I started making up little songs about princesses and stuffed animals and basically thought I was the coolest person ever. Once I got to middle school, all of my friends would get me to sing in front of the whole class, and I literally have no idea what even prompted this, but I guess it was a good thing because it got me used to singing in front of people. Eventually, one of my friends told me about a local songwriting camp, where you got to write, record, and perform your own original song all in one week. I ended up going, and ever since then I’ve been writing, recording, and playing my own gigs! Some may know me as Emily Cole; I perform out a lot, and I set up acoustic for my live shows. I’m currently in the process of rebranding to Xoë Miles (a combination of letters from my actual first name and how I sign off on things online- xo). As an artist, I’ve grown a lot over the years. I recently learned to produce and engineer my own music. While I love playing out as an acoustic pop artist, the rebrand will show that I can do more than that. I’ve always wanted to get into the EDM music scene, and I’m so excited to finally start having some movement when it comes to that! I’m so excited for y’all to see all of the amazing things coming up.

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

Connecting with others! I love when I have people come to me and tell me they can relate to my music. I know what it’s like to connect on an emotional level to other artist’s songs, so the fact that people listen to my music and have that same experience is mind blowing.

Can you share your view on NFTs? (Note: this is for education/entertainment purposes only, readers should not construe this as advice)

This is such a fun question LOL. I honestly don’t know much about them- like, at all- but my brother has brought it up to me a few times that I should try and incorporate something to do with NFT’s with my music… not quite sure how to do that yet, but hey, maybe eventually I’ll understand enough to give it a shot!

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.xoemiles.com
• Instagram: http://instagram.com/xoemiles
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xoemilesmusic
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/xoemiles
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNtW59PAGnS6hniYdW6c-A
• Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@xoemiles

Image Credits
Jack @ Bohemian Productions