Today we’d like to introduce you to Formerly “CAM”
Hi Formerly “CAM”, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
“It’s really crazy thinking I’m officially 10+ (plus) years into this [chuckles] but at the same time, it’s like, everything has been different moments, even like, versions of what I’m doing now, so it’s hard to lump it all together as one giant journey but that’s exactly what it is. Just crazy…but yeah it all started out, literally just getting exposed to all this different music in the back of the car, then you got friends and family who have instruments they don’t use as often so you get free range over them, and next thing I know I’m having my friends teach me all the techniques and me trying to learn songs off YouTube, and it just takes on a life of its own and we get to be here!”
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
“I mean, It’s a ton of up and down for sure. You got struggles feeling like you’re not learning fast enough. You wonder if you’re playing the right music, in the right groups, it can blow up to that huge cloud hanging over you, you know? and it can just go on autopilot at times too and (you) don’t always feel like you’re soaking in the opportunities. Like, a lot of this, in my opinion, comes down to your mentality and how you naturally react to the different factors in play when it comes to getting music out, and off the ground, and into hands of the next audience member, you know? It’s f******* awesome, don’t get it wrong, there’s just always the other side to your day to day, and we naturally tend to keep negative s*** to ourselves, plus for artists it ends up in the art somewhere. We don’t want fans knowing how much this can stress us out, it takes a lot of away from the experience, especially when there’s that real love and respect from them. You just tough it out and highlight the successes, and maybe that’s not best thing anymore, but it’s how it’s been for a while, you know?”
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
“If I had to say, I’d assume most people saw me in my first few bands, like 2014 to 2016, and in 2018 I was getting booked the entire year, I hadn’t put out any music for at least a year, but they just popped every week it was absolutely insane. That was like my first buzz ever, you know? other than that I’ve just stayed close to my community on the Southside of Minneapolis, and have been working nationally with other artists, (and) businesses for the past five or six years now. My whole mission is cultivating actual, physical spaces for people to work and create, that’s like, what I’ll retire on kind of thing [laughing] but, you know, I’m not s*** right now, I have a lot to prove, for sure. I’m doing everything I can to keep it independent, but I definitely have tons of friends and a solid team that’s kept me active and on course, for sure.”
What was your favorite childhood memory?
“It all is so good now that I’m older, you know? [laughing] as sad as it sounds, it really helps you put into perspective how easy we had it. S*** was about who’s having the most fun kind of thing, how much you can learn in a day, now we got all that pressure and seeing a different side of the world. D*** that s*** just got me feeling some kind of way [chuckles] yeah, I miss all that, man.”
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