![]() He has hinted at their interest in and support of music. He has not mentioned his parents’ names or most other details. Tim is also following the path of being a musician and is now reaching heights with his talent. You may also read more about me in my self-interview on this blog here.His parents have a significant interest in music. Some of my more notable studio and tour/live credits include Chon, Anthony Green, KSHMR, Bebe Rexha, Circa Survive, Roddy Ricch, Chief Keef, Naia Izumi, Keiynan Lonsdale, Gashi, Mothé, Until the Ribbon Breaks, Thunder Jackson, Alexandra Shipp, Nikitaa, Psychic Barber, etc. I additionally am the keys player, music director, and string arranger of JAMS (an all-female backing band for hire) and run my own all-female orchestral ensemble for hire for studio/touring work, Summer Swee-Singh & the Heartstrings. I release music under my name ( Summer Swee-Singh) as well as with my original project, grp. I'm a California-based AAPI studio and touring musician (keys / piano), string / orchestral arranger, composer, backing vocalist, music director, and string / orchestral contractor. The four pillars this project was built upon are identity, representation, perspective, and progress. ![]() I want validation from other people now, and I think that’s life… you grow and your interests change.Įarly in my studio/touring career, I recognized a lack of AAPI representation in the music world-outside of the classical and ethnic-specific (K-Pop/J-Pop/Bollywood) realms-and realized I needed to do what I could to highlight the stories, perspectives and music of some incredible AAPI musicians to inspire the current and future generations of AAPI musicians. ![]() All the people I wanted validation from back then, I never got it I have it now though… I have it more than enough now, but I don’t want it now. It’s hard to say, “Get good faster” because then it might have gotten overlooked. Maybe it’s good that it happened at that time, I don’t know. which was essentially intricate guitar with beats which followed the guitars now in 2021, four years later, that’s what all the kids are doing now. I feel like in 2017 The Most Hated was way fucking ahead of its time. It probably would’ve been ahead of its time-way ahead of its time. I might have found what I’m doing now maybe sooner. that’s kind of vague, but if you adapt your style to one that sounds dope without distortion, it’s a lot more versatile. maybe I'd say, “Play without distortion and make it sound dope”. I definitely have gone through enormous metamorphoses in so many areas of my life. Even though maybe I could have done things sooner and better, I just don’t think it would’ve happened this way had I not had the learning experiences I did. (pauses) I’d love to tell myself “Don’t do this and don’t do that”… but if I had told myself that, then I wouldn’t be where I am now-it would fuck up my trajectory… and I’m very grateful for my trajectory. My mom was obviously really worried about the financial aspect of it, but I think she’s more supportive now. ![]() Maybe now that I’ve just built a house-and my mom goes to check on it weekly-maybe now she’s a little more supportive… but my dad’s been supportive for much longer. I didn’t start making money until about five years into it. Then when we started touring full-time, my mom was very skeptical and was asking about how I was going to make money and how I was going to make it work. After that, my dad started supporting me. After that, we had the budget to record a record, so we went and recorded the record-that was my first time in the studio. We launched the Indiegogo a month later and met the goal, and that’s when my dad said, “Okay, maybe you could do this”. Then one day I told my dad, “Yeah, I’m not in school and we’re actually about to ask the internet for $30,000 from an Indiegogo”, and he got so fucking pissed. I went through a semester there and then I transferred to community college and just lied to my parents about going the whole time-for a year or two-while we did the local band grind. It was the nearest university that wasn’t community college. 6b.) When and how did you decide you were going to pursue music professionally? What were your parents’ reactions to you deciding to pursue music? Do they support your music career now? I think at the end of high school there was a lot of pressure in regards to what college are you going to attend, and I obviously wanted to go to Berklee, but I didn’t get in, so, I thought, "I guess I’m going to UNT".
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