Name: TheARTI$T
Nationality: American
Occupation: Singer, songwriter
Current release: TheARTI$T's new mini-album Who I am is out via No More Heroes.  

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What were some of the musical experiences which planted a seed for your interest in R&B?

As a kid I loved to dance, and dancing turned into singing!

Never knew I'd be an artist today but I always had an artists energy about myself since a kid.

What, would you say, are the key ideas behind your approach to creativity?

The keys behind my approach to creativity are authenticity and vulnerability.

I find myself in better creative spaces when I am able to connect to an experience I had or a shared experience with someone through conversation.

Mix that with my ability to tap into those emotions and it makes for a great creative experience.

For many artists, life-changing musical experiences take place live. How do you see that yourself?

I truthfully don't know. There are so many ways it can go!

Prayerfully 2026 will be the year for that!

How do you see the role of sampling in r&b today?

I see the role of sampling in R&B as an ode to the ones who paved the way for artists such as myself to hold space in this genre.

The roots of R&B go back so far and to be able to carry what carried us for years is more of an honor than anything.

I hope that someday my music will be sampled for the next generation of artists coming up!

Where do most of your inspirations to create come from – rather from internal impulses or external ones? Which current social / political / ecological or other developments make you feel like you need to respond as an artist?

Most of my inspirations are from internal emotions mixed with external affairs. Like being in a particular place may spark an old feeling or thought that would then turn into a lyric or harmony for me.

I feel like socially, the way R&B is headed definitely has influence on the way I work. It's in such a great space and it feels like a team effort and as a team player, you show up and you continue to carry your team to a win - the team being the genre of R&B.

How, would you say are your live performances and your recording projects connected at the moment? How do they mutually influence and feed off each other?

Recently I've been in a space where I want my recording projects to feel bigger when I'm on stage.

So I've been working with a band to amplify the sound to take the music from a "song" to an "experience" when the listeners come and hear me live.

Are there approaches, artists, festivals, labels, spaces or anyone/-thing else out there who you feel deserve a shout out for taking R&B into the future?

I want to give a shout out to every R&B platform that consistently pushes the sound forward, every festival that gives R&B artist a chance to show why we could never be wiped out as a genre and every artist that continues to do the work needed in order to take our sound to the top.

Hats off to everyone!