Meet Rich ”JKR70 Lester”

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Rich ”JKR70″ Lester. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Rich below.

Rich, sincerely appreciate your selflessness in agreeing to discuss your mental health journey and how you overcame and persisted despite the challenges. Please share with our readers how you overcame. For readers, please note this is not medical advice, we are not doctors, you should always consult professionals for advice and that this is merely one person sharing their story and experience.
I have a wonderful support system of close friends and contemporaries that keep me going. Through their successes and failures, they simply keep going forward creating art that inspires, and I aspire to do the same!

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?
I started producing music in 1998, working with local artist and DJ’s, I have produced 10 studio albums to date under the Monikers JKR70 and Human CropCircles.

In no particular order…

Human Pride and The Lack Thereof, The Future Is Not What It Used to Be, Tienanmen Square, Constant Movement, Project Lucid, Dreamtime, The Chocolate EP, Audio Black Book, Rumpus in These Horns of Mine, and lastly The King Mixtape.

I also work for Sike Style Industries producing tracks for their videos on Tik Tok and Instagram. sikestyle.myportfolio.com

My latest projects have been with Jevon “Lou Rip” Fisher and Daniel “Lucid Flows” Bartle in a group called MOKS (MO = Missouri KS = Kansas) mokshiphop.com and also visual artist Adrian Halpern, adrianhalpern.com producing music for various art shows and projections with a group that was his creation called A.K.A. (As Known As) along with music Producer Omni San, and musician DJ of Stranded in the City.

jkr70@bandcamp.com

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
As an artist, I believe that faith, optimism, and hope were powerful forces that shaped my perceptions and experiences. Through vibrant colors, dynamic forms, and evocative imagery, I aim to create a transformative space where individuals can reflect on their own personal or cultural interests. Each piece serves as a nod to people places and things that I have seen throughout my life. let us celebrate the unwavering strength of faith, the uplifting nature of optimism, and the boundless possibilities that hope can bring, helping us all to keep going, and to keep creating !

Okay, so before we go, is there anyone you’d like to shoutout for the role they’ve played in helping you develop the essential skills or overcome challenges along the way?
In one way or another, everyone that I’ve met thus far in my life’s journey has helped me, some more than others of course. I have a very close group of individuals of varying backgrounds, cultures and experiences, that are more than friends, they are family to me, and I often look to them for advice, be it for feedback on a new musical composition, visual piece or just day to day life issues, and through these individuals I have grown so much more than I could have without them.

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