Today we’d like to introduce you to KAE Savage.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
Growing up, I’ve always been drawn to creativity. However, my journey with music started in 2009 when I was a 15-year-old skateboarder juiced up on teen angst trying to find his way.
Around this time, guitar hero had Garner a lot of attention and popularity with this new trend and novelty my curiosity for wanting to learn the guitar overpowered me, and I eventually got my first guitar from a close friend of mine.
Since then, I’ve been in bands, play tons of music festivals, written solo albums open for some of the biggest artists in the world and I’ve touched many people in my local community with a 15 years I’ve spent creating in my bedroom studio and yet I feel like I’m still just getting started.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
The path of music for me has been I would describe as for Dragon Ball, Z reference, journeying down snake Way without the strength or speed of Goku. Lol
A lot of my struggles with music have a lot to do with my interactions with social media landscape. I’m in constant.struggle between making the music I wanna make and the music that would make me popular. Often have to deal with gate keepers for other scenes so can be a difficult landscape to navigate especially when all I wanna do it’s just make music, but unfortunately, the music business takes more than just talent. You need a team and my biggest struggle up to this point is that I’ve been doing everything myself(outside of being in a band and even then I felt I was pulling most of the weight). From the music production to writing the music to recording the music to designing the album covers to designing the flyers to putting the money up to produce the merch everything is fallen entirely on me, which I can appreciate if feeling impaired as a indie artist it takes a machine to truly push the artist to the masses to where they can actually make a decent living from music in a constant changing music landscape is also a major factor that makes me struggle in this. I work two jobs not including Music seven days a week so amongst all that and the fact that I still find a time to make music a lot of it has to do with time and money.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I guess in today’s term she would call me a per se a “ content creator” but at heart I am a music artist, but I wear many hats and talents such as graphic design, videography and photography.
My creative endeavors have taken many different shapes and phases. Sometimes I was working on an album other times I’m helping a friend film a Vlog at a video game convention, other times I might be DJing a skateboarding contest or making promotional videos for a local cannabis medical practice. If I can factor the part of my work that I’m most passionate about it would be my music. I generally keep the bulk of my catalog on my Bandcamp page listenandvibe.bandcamp.com. But I also have my Instagram, my YouTube and music streaming platforms where you can find my work. Really set me apart from others is that I’m not just confined to one medium of art. I feel like nowadays. A lot of us have to carry multiple hats, but for me it’s my strong suit to be versatile and creativity and do it to the best of my ability and when you see that work and adjust the You can fill my DNA in it no AI no filler just raw in the flesh 100% me uncompromised. Me being a kid who grew up both in the suburbs in the city being exposed to different sub cultures makes up the variety of sounds that I bring to my music from hip-hop to punk to electronic and everything else in between when you listen to one of my projects You feel different elements at times that you feel may not be related to each other and I find common ground to those that’s what sent me apart from others.
What does success mean to you?
Being free to create uncompromised while not living in survival mode
Contact Info:
- Website: https://Listenandvibe.bandcamp.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/listenandvibe/profilecard/?igsh=MWRnaWszOGx5a2lpbQ==
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1AC53dQbXP/?mibextid=wwXIfr
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@listenandvibe?si=BT_qSuTKq-3oR3ne
- Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/kaesavage513
