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OK, so we are here with music artist,
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Irene Diaz, thank you for joining us,
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Irene. Thank you for having me.
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Of course, it's a pleasure.
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And how is it like being a music artist in L A
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specifically in the indie genre?
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It's wild. I think being,
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being a Latina coming from L A,
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like I take some pride in it.
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like taking pride in that.
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Yeah, the fact that like,
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like I'm an indie artist,
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like I like to find different genres of music that,
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that I tend to explore.
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it's exciting because I think people now are very,
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more open to, to hearing so many different types of music
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I've been doing this for the past 10 years and
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when I first got started and like,
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I was so shy and I was so just not knowing like
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but now it's not about fitting in.
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It's just about being yourself,
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being yourself and like,
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yeah, you like standing out,
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you know, you wanna,
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you wanna stand out.
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Definitely and, and how has social media and like streaming
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made it easier or more difficult to stand out.
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A lot of artists hate social media.
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And like, I feel like I've been in that boat,
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but I also think like,
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it's a great way for artists to showcase to their fans and
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reach like a broader audience.
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It's, there's always good and there's bad,
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you know, and it depends on you and like,
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how you come into it.
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Like, where is your heart when you want to like,
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Are you wanting to like,
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oh, I want like so many fans and I want this
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but at the end of the day,
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like as artists, like,
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we're here to share our hearts,
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we're here to share music and just connection.
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So James Blake said that we're brainwashed to think music is free
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Do you agree in how people view music's value today?
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I think even as artists like,
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we don't, we don't see the value in what we bring
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and I think it needs to change.
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We all need to survive,
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we need to pay our rent.
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But I think even just like supporting like downloading like the artists
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music that you love donating,
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even like, like I have on my site,
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I have buy me a coffee and people have it.
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It's trying to figure out like ways to like show people that
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that you love what you do but also to give them
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the opportunity to show appreciation.
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but yeah, I think we are brainwashed because we see
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Spotify and people pay like a monthly fee and they think that
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oh, like I'm paying a monthly fee but at the
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like you don't see any of that money.
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Like it's like 0.003 0.005.
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Just like what James Blake was saying?
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And what is your best core memory from your music career being
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on the N Pr tiny desk?
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That's cool. That happened back in 2014.
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That's awesome. That's,
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that was huge. Yeah.
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Yeah, I I that opportunity was I,
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I feel like that was one of the biggest opportunities or one
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of my most exciting like opportunities that I've had.
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I'm so grateful. So the music industry is hurting.
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That's like there's major label layoffs and artists being dropped
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what would be your advice to newer indie artists?
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I would say to really expand like your streams of income.
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If you know how to play an instrument,
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thinking about teaching is a great way,
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but just like, don't,
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don't give up. It's not about like you at the end
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of the day, it's about people connecting with the heart and
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you're almost like a vessel and that's what we need to remember
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is that we're, we're here to connect with people.
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Yeah, definitely, definitely.
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And then you should do Tik Tok Lives.
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I don't know if you can definitely do Tik Tok live.
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So people can send you presents,
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you don't have to like do the whole like,
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like, I don't know if you saw that is so
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I've seen that. I've seen that.
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Yeah. So definitely that,
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so this desk is pretty tiny when we hear something too.
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Yeah. Yeah. So thank you so much for having me
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we're super appreciative to have you here.
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I'm gonna play you a song.
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This song is called,
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Then you, I got you on my,
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my can goes on while we just will you make me and
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I love away away me up.
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We break this down to you.
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I love you. Oh I love you.
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No, in terms of so beautifully and they seed with honey
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to flower jacket. He now wrote a song for you to
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see how special you,
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who you are, who I got you.
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My kid goes on while we just thought f oh I love
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I do. Who will love you,
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Like I'm literally like,
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whoa and I felt it too.
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Like that was beautiful.
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Like I'm gonna probably like play in my car after work.
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I'm gonna look you up.
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they're really good. Where can people find you and listen
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to your music. You can find me on Instagram.
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It's Irene Diaz or I have a website Irene Diaz official.com.
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Thank you again. Yeah.
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