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Sió ‘On The SpotLight’

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ShoMag: The music industry ‘can be a hard one to crack’. Where did your musical journey start and was music something you always wanted to be a part of, how did you get into the music industry?

Sió: I am a late bloomer! ‘Everything switches on for me when the rest of the class is miles ahead’. I’ve was always been shy and I was always dabbling in something artistic. I used to sketch a lot as a child and I could do that by myself and share it without being there in person. I wanted to be a fashion designer and a couple of girls at school had me design a couple of dresses for them.

‘Music has always been around the house’, but my mother never seemed impressed about my singing that was up until I got a leading role at church and that changed her mind.

Writing was a lot more difficult. While most of my peers were rapping their own words, I was struggling to write a poem that didn’t have roses and violets. When I did crack my poetry I struggled writing songs till, ‘I suffered from insomnia for a good 9 months’ and I wrote a song it that had good flow, a steady melody that wasn’t all over the place and that open the doorway for the rest.

I got into music by way of a friend of mine who knew a guy who had made a beat, and his friend had just bought a studio mic and she told them I could write songs. We walked to his house and recorded ‘Love Mirrors by Project 5, and formed the group that day’. We have parted ways since then.

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ShoMag: Throughout every journey, there are ‘highs and lows’. What would you say was your all time low within the music industry and what lessons did Sió’ take out of that experience?

Sió: There are a couple of things, but I’ll speak of one. How secondary and almost unimportant, forgettable and even editable the vocalist is to the producer of song’.

‘My name was completely excluded from a song nomination’, though I am credited on it as a feature, and more recently, how people just ignore that I am not featured on the song A Dream Away’, but headlining it alongside the producer. Those two incidences have made me realize that ‘vocalists and especially female vocalists dont get much respect from music lovers, even though we are the ones they sing along to. That is something that needs to change’.

ShoMag: On ‘upside’, what do you love so much about music and what has been your ‘ultimate high’ within the music industry so far?

Sió: I once was told that people don’t care about the lyrics and for me as a lyricist, poet, writer, storyteller that was a difficult pill to swallow. One of my greatest treats is when someone asks me to write out the lyrics to my songs, coz they are interested in knowing them. ‘I get an even bigger kick if a guy asks!!!!’ I thinks guys are more inclined to rap lyrics and production, ‘very rarely do I find guys interested in the lyrics of a female vocalist, so that makes my day and is definitely a High for me’.

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