Life, Values & Legacy: Our Chat with Kerly Vallejo of Remote

We recently had the chance to connect with Kerly Vallejo and have shared our conversation below.

Good morning Kerly, we’re so happy to have you here with us and we’d love to explore your story and how you think about life and legacy and so much more. So let’s start with a question we often ask: Are you walking a path—or wandering?
Hi! First of all, thank you for giving me this space to share more about my life. I think it changes with the season of my life. I’ve always imagined my journey like a forest, sometimes there’s a clear trail, sometimes it splits into different directions, and I have to choose. There are moments of rest, moments of rain and mud, and moments where everything feels uncertain. This past year, the path disappeared completely, and I found myself wandering, trying to find my way back. But that wandering taught me more than any straight line ever could. Now I feel aligned again, moving forward with purpose, aware that the path may shift, but trusting myself to rediscover it each time.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My name is Kerly Vallejo, and I’m a Film Scoring Music Composer. I create original music for audiovisual projects, mainly films, and I also compose ambient music for digital platforms. Music has been part of my life since I was a child, but in 2018, I discovered film scoring, and it felt like finding my true direction. Since then, I’ve been committed to building a career in this world.

My brand is rooted in emotion. I’m not interested in being seen only as ‘a composer,’ but as a safe, creative space where people can connect with music in a personal way. Even without lyrics, I want listeners to feel represented in every texture, every instrument, every note, as if they are part of the composition itself. I gravitate toward soft, pastel colors and aesthetics, a calm and comforting identity that reflects the kind of sonic world I love to create.

What makes this work meaningful to me is showing others how powerful music is in storytelling, how it shapes emotion, deepens immersion, and changes the way we experience a scene. Composing for film is my dream, and I fight for it every single day.

Recently, I completed the score for an independent video game and composed music for the second episode of a YouTube mini-series. They’re small steps, but they’re part of the larger journey. I’m committed to building a life where film scoring isn’t just what I do, but who I am.

Amazing, so let’s take a moment to go back in time. What’s a moment that really shaped how you see the world?
The moment that truly shaped how I see the world happened this year. After facing months of pressure, uncertainty, and personal challenges, I reached a breaking point. For the first time, I felt like my strength had disappeared. I wasn’t the ‘resilient’ version of myself anymore. I was exhausted, lost, and convinced that I couldn’t keep going. I remember hoping that all the pain would eventually make sense, that there was some lesson hidden in it.

But in that stillness, something shifted. I realized that everything I’ve achieved, every project, every milestone, every tiny victory—exists because I fought for it. People often see the results, but they don’t see the silent work, the fear, the hours, the sacrifice. And that climb, that effort, belongs to me. It made me understand that my worth isn’t defined by applause or validation, but by my ability to rise.

A line from Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein echoed in my mind: ‘As long as you are alive, what choice do you have but to live?’ It sounds simple, but it felt like a truth I needed. And then Taylor Swift’s line in Father Figure, ‘This empire belongs to me’,gave me a sense of ownership over my life and my work. I realized I couldn’t wait for luck, for permission, or for happiness to arrive. I had to build it.

That understanding reshaped not only my personal life, but my career as a film scoring composer. This field is full of highs and lows days when I feel unstoppable and days when doubt feels louder than music. But now I see movement as a choice. Even wandering teaches direction. Every note I write, every project I take, every step I make is part of creating the life I want.

So the moment that changed my worldview wasn’t just the breaking, it was discovering that I could rebuild, and that the future I dream of will exist because I’m brave enough to create it.

What fear has held you back the most in your life?
The fear that has held me back the most is the fear of the future. I work every day to build my career in film scoring, but there are moments when uncertainty feels overwhelming. People often say that hard work will eventually pay off, that you’re ‘planting seeds’ and one day you’ll harvest the results but there’s no guarantee. And sometimes I’ve wondered, What if I’m not building anything at all? What if none of this leads anywhere? What if I never grow? What if I have to give up?.

That uncertainty can be paralyzing. It has followed me since before I even graduated, whispering the worst-case scenarios. But the future is unpredictable in both directions not only for the worst, but also for the best. And that possibility is what keeps me moving.

I’m not fearless. I’m someone who carries fear and still chooses to act, reaching out to directors, creating new music, knocking on doors, showing up even when doubt is loud. And when I look back, I can clearly see that I’m not where I started. I may not be at the place I dream of yet, but I’ve grown, I’ve moved, I’ve built something.

I don’t know if the fear of the unknown will ever disappear. But I do know this: I won’t let it win. I’d rather walk forward with fear than stay still because of it.

Sure, so let’s go deeper into your values and how you think. Is the public version of you the real you?
This question is very interesting. I’d say yes… but not entirely.

What I show to the world isn’t a mask. That focused composer, driven, relentless, in love with film scoring. The woman who dreams big and keeps moving even when it hurts, she’s real. She’s an honest part of who I am. She’s my conviction made visible.

But she isn’t the whole picture.

My true self also lives in places almost no one sees: in my quiet sensitivity, in my unspoken fears, in the tenderness I save for private spaces, in the deep longing to be understood rather than applauded. There’s a version of me that isn’t public because it doesn’t always fit on display, the fragile one, the intense one, the loyal one, the one who feels everything and still keeps going.

They’re not two different faces. They’re two depths of the same ocean. My public self is truth. My private self is wholeness.

And if someone is lucky or patient enough to meet both, they’d learn that my most authentic self isn’t the one that looks strongest, but the one that dares to feel everything with no audience at all.

Before we go, we’d love to hear your thoughts on some longer-run, legacy type questions. If you laid down your name, role, and possessions—what would remain?
If my name, my role, my achievements, and every possession vanished, what would remain is the truest version of me. A quietly fierce will that keeps rising even when I’m shaken, a deep sensitivity to emotions and atmospheres, a mind that creates worlds even without instruments, a loyal heart that loves intensely, a hunger for purpose rather than applause, and a resilience that has carried me through every doubt. Even stripped of titles and identity, my imagination, my courage, and my inner light would still exist, unchanged, unowned, undeniable, because the most powerful part of me isn’t what I do, but who I am when everything else falls away.

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Image Credits
Photo from the filming of the upcoming short film for which I will be the composer, “Musalgia” directed by: Aurelio Garófalo.

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