Meet PABLO.ANMUAR

We recently connected with PABLO.ANMUAR and have shared our conversation below.

Hi PABLO.ANMUAR, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?
My main motivator has always been my family and my loved ones. They are the ones that day in and day out remind me who I was when I decided to become a musician and how far I have gotten since then. I have always been aware that to be successful in music I have to play the long game and believe in myself. This hasn’t always been easy. In fact, this road has been a bumpy one for long stretches. Still, as long as I got their support I will continue pushing through and getting better in my craft. People say that doing what you love for a living means you’ll never have to work a day in your life. I think is quite the opposite. Because I do what I love for a living I have to work even harder. I want to reach my highest potential and that takes lots of dedication and discipline. Sometimes is hard to remember what the goal is because we can get blinded with all the different aspects of life and loose our focus. In those times, I find myself appreciating even the smallest things in my day. Connecting with things that will ground me again to what reality is. Is like meditation, I try to fill my mind with everything that is currently around me for a couple minutes and just breath. But the best meditation to me is talking with my friends, my siblings or my parents. Seeing life through their eyes reminds me that, as bumpy as the road can get, I am actually lucky. I chose this life and I have met some of the most wonderful people and gotten to be in amazing places because of it.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
When I started playing guitar at 11 years old, I didn’t think that one day I would be living from recording and playing music with amazing musicians. I feel lucky to able to say that I live from making music, I’m so thankful for it. Everyday I get to play and record with other musicians, creating something new and having fun every time. As a producer I have many roles, from being the beat maker or the arranger of the song, or performing along side the featured artist, to helping them find the right right environment, the right mood, for them to perform to the best of their abilities. I do all of that while still keeping my eyes on the bigger picture and the general vision for each for each piece.

With my music, I aim to create sounds that feel human and connect with the most inner fibers of our beings. I have always seen music as a language that can connect people no matter where they are from or what language they speak. In the same way, my music is the reflection of this belief: I want to create music that doesn’t need translation from culture to culture or language to language by creating a sound so universal that your body and your mind assimilate it before thinking of the words that are being sung. This is the ultimate goal I pursue with all of my music. It doesn’t matter if it is a simple composition with voice and guitar, an electronic piece, a Big Band arrangement, or even a full orchestral composition; if I can connect with you before the first word has been sung, I have already won.

My latest release, “Ya Sé”, mixes elements form Reggaeton, Indie Rock and Hip-Hop to create a driving force that makes you want to move. On top of this the lyrics tell a story of longing and nostalgia with a hint of frustration. All of these elements reach their climax during the chorus when the heavy beat launches the track into party mode. The chorus brings some reassurance that things will eventually be ok, even if for now it seems like the past will always haunt you. “Ya Sé” is accompanied by two other songs: “18 de Octubre” a lo-fi inspired instrumental track that represents the change of seasons from the fall into a darker, more moody winter; and “2:44 AM (You’re the Kind of Girl) live acoustic version” a broken down arrangement of my first single. I hope that everyone that listens to my music is able to feel the different emotions that each of this tracks represent.

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?
To me, being disciplined would be the first skill I value the most. This is something my parents tried to always make emphasis on while I was growing up. I have come to understand that being disciplined is not a quality naturally, but a habit that can become a quality. It’s easy to let yourself not do anything, especially nowadays when we have such easy access to entertainment. The first year after I graduated college was particularly hard for me. I had spent 22 years of my life in this gridlock system where I always had something to look for 3 to 6 months down the road. Leaving it and finding myself free to do or not do anything was daunting at first. I definitely struggled at first to find a routine that worked for me. The first six months were particularly full of leisure. Which on controlled amounts is not bad, but had I not had the habit of keeping myself busy I could have lost myself and not done anything at all.

Resourcefulness is another skill that comes to mind. To me this means being proactive to set myself up for success. In our society and specially in the music industry, I find that more often than not, meeting the right people and asking the right questions can get you further ahead. However, we can’t always know who the right person is. What I find works best for me is educating myself to the highest level I can at a time and reaching out to the people in my close circle about anything that I can’t figure out on my own. More often than not, someone will know of someone else that could be the right person for the situation at hand. Even if this person is the friend of a friend of a friend. Bottom line is, don’t be afraid to ask questions as silly as they may seem, be humble but confident in yourself, and always keep good relations with the people that help you even if they can’t do much for you at the moment. You never know when you might need an extra hand.

As a producer my job is having a vision that can be developed with a team that includes at least an artist, an arranger, other musicians as well as one or more engineers. These are the people that are going to put in practice what my vision is for the specific project we are working on. This is where interpersonal skills come into play. You need to be able to sympathize and empathize with others in order to get the most out of your team. A happy team is able to work more efficiently and that leads to better quality in the recording, performance, and final product. Even more, a happy team will be more effective at carrying out your vision and allow you to interject with less pushback whenever you as a producer may want to change something on the go. Sometimes, you will have to play the role of shrink with some of your artists, or even just be their friend and call them out on the good and bad. Each project and each session will bring different challenges and it’s your job to assess each of them correctly which will only get easier when you know yourself and your team.

One of our goals is to help like-minded folks with similar goals connect and so before we go we want to ask if you are looking to partner or collab with others – and if so, what would make the ideal collaborator or partner?
I am always interested in meeting talented artists that want to collaborate. Like I mentioned through out this interview, I’m a jack of all trades when it comes to music and production. But I find that my favourite projects are the ones where I collaborate with others. I’m primarily looking for musical acts that like what I have done in the past and would like to see how my perspective of music and life can benefit their work. I work in a variety of different styles and I’m open to experiment as well. If your goal is to breakthrough on the billboard charts that’s something we can do, but if you want to simply find new sounds and ways to express yourself I would love to connect as well. Similarly, I’m always on the look out for artists that work in other mediums like videographers, visual artists, actors, etc. I’m a believer that your art is only going to be as big as your network. Being able to collaborate with others and put together projects where everyone involved feels passionate for what they’re doing is the ideal case for me. If we all work together to make something we are proud of, that’s when others will notice the value of our creations.

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