Hot new Interview with Aiesha India

 

Aiesha India: I heard about Exposed Vocals via Twitter. I was putting some music up, got retweeted, checked out their website and decided to follow back! 🙂

I saw that Exposed Vocals were interviewing artists and thought why not? I’ll give it a go! Thought it’s a great opportunity that Exposed Vocals were offering to artists! 🙂

Aiesha India: I grew up in London, Harrow. I was extremely passionate about music since a very young age. I was born with a rare skin condition, ichthyosis, which restricted me from attending school and pursuing a full education. The only thing that I knew and loved to do was make music. I quit education aged 15 and followed my dreams ever since!

Aiesha India: My real name is Aiesha! However, the ‘India’ part was something my dad liked. He knew someone called India and then somehow I was called Aiesha India 🙂 

Aiesha India: I support online music sharing 100%. We are now so fortunate to gain exposure by simply uploading to a channel or to a sound cloud. Upcoming artists have such a fantastic platform to build on. The fact we can all share our music means people can listen to what we put our passion into from all around the world! For most of us, the exposure and the love is what we make music for, the money is just a bonus.

 I give my music away for free. For me, the money really doesn’t matter at all. I’ve lived a life where I feel I have stories to share, issues to raise awareness for and if I can do that and people can relate to my music, that’s a reward in itself. It’s nice to get paid, definitely but I think that stage does come a lot later. It depends on what field you’re going into when it comes to music. If we don’t share without expecting anything in return, I think its a lot harder. When someone downloads your track and they have the option to download it for free they will obviously download it but I also think if the listener really likes the song, they will buy it! Either way, the song is being listened to!

Aiesha India: Never give up! Sounds incredibly cliché but it’s true. Social media is definitely the way forward. I really did underestimate the power of Social Media! Get a youtube channel, get a twitter account, keep tweeting, share, hashtag. Put little clips up on Instagram, be interactive and always ask what your audience wants to see or hear. Don’t just upload your music, upload pictures, put a face to the music! Submit your music forward to radio stations even if they’re the smaller ones, any airplay is still exposure. Go around to your local clubs, get them to play your CD. Perform your songs at open mics, even if they’re acoustic or stripped down versions.  Let people see your journey through, that’s the best tip I can give! 🙂

Aiesha India: I’ve made mistakes during performances, but you can’t let it knock you down at the time. For the 5% which might’ve gone a bit wrong the 95% is being up on stage even having the courage to perform in front of a crowd. Handling it is pretty simple, you just keep going! For the performer the mistake is a big one, but the likelihood the audience have even picked it up or even care, you might as well laugh it off and keep going! Mistakes are all a part of it. You can rehearse 100 times before getting up on stage but the atmosphere will change it so much you’ll get pumped and you just have to focus on your crowd! 

Aiesha India: Sadly, I don’t tour. I would absolutely love to tour but due to health reasons it’s probably advisable for me not to! I just make music videos and produce music and do the odd performance. I’m not overly unhappy about it! Hopefully I’ll be able to tour soon though! 🙂

Aiesha India: I gather songwriting inspiration from experience. I really find it difficult to write about something that isn’t real, I wish I could just write for the fun of it so I’m not too emotionally attached to my music! My usual songwriting process includes my phone and an experience! I can literally get the most random idea whilst shopping or being out and about and I write. I suffer from depression so any time I feel like I’m going to cry or go on a downer, I write. I write two or three songs in about an hour due to all the ideas in my head. I don’t record all of them, I just pick between the songs sometimes and maybe merge it all into one song. I write all the time, even when I’m not feeling down, the weirdest and strangest things come to mind and I have to drop everything and write the idea into my phone! Perks of technology! But if I’m at a studio session or at my studio, I’ll either be given or make a beat and write according to the beat style and structure. My songwriting process varies quite a bit!