Meet Mikael Mutti

We recently connected with Mikael Mutti and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, so we’re so thrilled to have Mikael with us today – welcome and maybe we can jump right into it with a question about one of your qualities that we most admire. How did you develop your work ethic? Where do you think you get it from?

My work ethic comes first of all from the values that I’ve learned for my family. The chance that I had to be raised so close to my grandparents and my mom’s family side, in a poor but super eclectic and happy neighborhood in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, made me respect everybody that is part of my life and music, as a job, is a big part of it since my 12 years old when I started to gig professionally.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

My name is Mikael, Mutti, and I’m a self taught musician, producer and composer. My main instrument is the piano, Which I’ve learned and started to practice with my grandmother that played the piano, all her life long as a self taught too. My mom also is very musical and she also had a lot of influence in my musical development. With three years old, I started to play whole Melodies with my music instruments toys and my parents started to pay attention to my music skills more seriously. With six years old, I was studying acoustic guitar and with 12 years old I was playing on professional bands, with older musicians. That was the period of my life that I’ve learned music theory, and I started to dedicate myself to recording and producing. My dad worked all his life along with computers, which helped me to dig into the digital music world very soon. I’ve started to work on big productions in Brazil as arranger and producer, always mixing electronic and digital music with the percussive universe coming from my hometown. Afterwards, I developed a way of playing electronic percussion with video game, controllers, and digital instruments, which is the kind of fusion that is characteristic of my work nowadays.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

The most impactful skills in my journey are: the capacity of dealing with people, the capacity of learning from the interaction with another artists and to don’t be afraid to develop my own language and style, even if I had to disrupt some patterns. If you are starting your journey through the music path, don’t be afraid to be yourself and to try to develop your own flavor and language. Don’t be worried about social media and followers numbers or likes on shallow Internet platforms. Try to get a solid career based on creativity and knowledge and try to connect as much as possible with great musicians. That’s the best school in the world.

Before we go, maybe you can tell us a bit about your parents and what you feel was the most impactful thing they did for you?

To get a Synthesizer in Brazil back in the days it was a nightmare. Besides of the overprice, it was hard to find digital instruments to buy. I remember when I was 15 years old, I started to play in a professional band that has some success around the country and I didn’t have a decent keyboard to play. All of a sudden my parents gave me a Korg Poly 800 synthesizer and I could get the gig. Then I noticed that the only old car our family had was sold… I Connected the points and realized that they sold that old car to buy me a Synthesizer.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: mikamuttimusic
• Facebook: Mika Mutti
• Youtube: @mikaelmutti