Post by Adam B on Mar 12, 2007 7:22:37 GMT -5
No matter what industry you’re in, you may not know the true talents of the people you’re working with. This was the case with Nick Howard, who worked with a veritable who’s who of the music industry while he was an engineer at Right Track Studio. Many of those artists might be surprised to find out that their engineer also happened to be an extremely talented singer, songwriter and producer himself. Howard’s mother turned out to be the one to suggest he stop working for others and start working on his own projects. He remembers “my mother had been telling me for years, ‘you know, maybe you should sing your own stuff,’ and I was like ‘nah, I don’t want to be a singer, I’m not interested in it, it’s not something that I want to do.’ And then a year and a half ago I finally made the decision to sing my own stuff.” Ever since Howard’s been drawing some pretty impressive comparisons, with people saying he reminds them of artists such as Remy Shand and Jamiroquai’s Jay Kay. This week I caught up with Howard to discuss the many levels on which he sees his music working, what he learned from his years of being in the studio with big name artists, and why he never wears an iPod on the subway.
For the full interview click here: adambernard.blogspot.com/2007/03/artist-of-week-nick-howard.html