Today we’d like to introduce you to Jonah Hoy
Hi Jonah, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
Well I always wanted to be in the creative world and make it my career any way I could. wether as an artist or just in the business. I started out by going to bands shows and writing articles for them at my college magazine in school. They would let me get in for free as long as I wrote an article and took a few pictures. Then, I stayed in Pittsburgh after I graduated, found some old head music guys that ran the local scene ways back and they got me started in the business so I could pursue a career in music.
I didn’t want my passion for playing writing and preforming to be pursued relentlessly where I might end up hating it as a job. So I get to still be creative, work with artists and pursue my own creative endeavors at my own pace and leisure. It’s freedom I’m after, the freedom of letting art be the thing that fuels my life wether that be me helping artists realizing their dreams and giving me the leisure to pursue it at a pace that I want, so I keep it the passion and not make it feel like a chore.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
It has not been smooth, if I’m being honest every day I think Jesus can this actually work out? Can I have a career in this? It’s just one of those paths, and I’m not even trying to be be a full time musician, artist, or writer. And it’s still hard and doesn’t seem like a clear cut path, it’s so unknown and someone who came out a small town in rural PA. Imposter syndrome happens, there’s low periods and high periods. It’s just all over the place and not clear, which I love but also makes me wanna rip my hair out every other week. But I wouldn’t choose it any other way.
It’s the usual sometimes Im scrambling to pay my rent and hope the creative enterprises I’m facilitating work out.
Parents looking at you like oh this is just a phase and not really taking you seriously. Where they look at you like Francis in Malcom in the Middle, where he was the rebel didn’t wanna get a real job, wanted to live life on his own terms and was deemed a problem. Then at the end, becomes “responsible” works a desk job and is laughing at the company chain mail Gags like his father.
It just feels like they’re waiting for me to get over myself and don’t see it as anything other than me playing pretend.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
While I do pursue the music business, I am also an artist myself. I currently punished my first anthology of poetry called “A critique of the Gods.”
My talent is writing, and I love it. I’m currently writing a novel and editing and publishing a new poetry book full of all original work. My talent is that I think I’m really good at telling a story. Wether talking or writing I just love a good story and wanna create the best and most entraining tale there is. Wether it be a short form of poetry, or big epic.
I’m really good at putting you into the room I am looking at. I can describe and shape a world where you know exactly where you are. It puts you where you’re supposed to be and you can feel it. I can make you feel what’s happening and out right where I want you. And I think that’s the coolest thing about writing and what I can do. A few simple words can transport you across worlds and have you somewhere you never knew you wanted to be.
We’re always looking for the lessons that can be learned in any situation, including tragic ones like the Covid-19 crisis. Are there any lessons you’ve learned that you can share?
Yes, Covid taught me and probably everyone else, that everything can change in a minute.
If it weren’t for COVID I don’t know if I would be on the same path I am today. It’s made me stronger, it’s opened up myself to take a really good look at myself and find areas that need tweaking.
If Covid taught me anything, it’ taught me what I really wanted out of life. It burned a fire under me that made me say ok this is what I want and if the whole world can up end itself any minute go for it any way. It could all come crashing down anyway and not even by my own failings. It made me look and want what I want even more.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.clippings.me/users/jonahhoy88
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hoyjonah/
- Other: https://www.amazon.com/Critique-Gods-Jonah-Hoy/dp/B0CLDPYR7L
Image Credits
Malwina @m4lvine
Shayne @shaynerowland