This week I am listening to “Fix You” from Coldplay’s 2005 album “X&Y”. This album by Coldplay takes me back to my college years, and the many hours I used to spend commuting on the bus to Seneca College.
The year was 2007, and I was applying for the Independent Music Production program (IMP) at Seneca College. I had shown up with my application, a collection of my MySpace demos, and a photo of me and my black ovation guitar as part of my electronic press kit (EPK). This was my chance to study music in a way where I got to learn not only the technical audio side but also the business side of music.
With only a limited number of exclusive seats left in the program, I was nervous and eager to get accepted. I walked into the studio room, where Professor John Switzer was sitting across a giant mixing board. John is perhaps the gentlest human I have ever come across in my life, a fantastic mentor, and a presence that I will never forget.
Just my luck, I got my acceptance letter in the mail a few weeks later after my interview, and just like that, my fate was sealed. Music was going to be my journey for the next decade of my life. Eff the labels, we are going to make it DIY was the spirit us IMP kids carried. We wanted to do our own thing, on our own terms, and stay true to our art. And stay true to it to this day, I did. #DIY #EffTheLabels
Big dreams, so much unknown, but I was ready for everything. #BringItOnLife I learned a lot during that program. So much so that I took all that knowledge and wanted to release my very first Nepali album with my own budget and independently on my own terms.
Soon after I graduated in 2008 at the tender age of 18, I made my way to my hometown of Kathmandu and released an 8 song album, which most of you know today as my debut release, “Sabai Thikai Huncha.”. It’s funny how life works out, right? As if I had just figured out how to be at the right place at the exact moment in time I needed to be there. But I hadn’t. I look back today, and with all the confidence in the world, I can say that I was destined to do this.
Here’s my rendition of “Fix You” by Coldplay.
#fixyou #x&y #coldplay #songsthatmademe
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