Rising Stars: Meet Reyaan Javed

Today we’d like to introduce you to Reyaan Javed.

Reyaan, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I began making music by accident in one of my mandatory music compositional classes when I was in the 7th grade. I always was curious how major music was made but had no idea, through the lessons, I learned that it was composed on software that anyone could get their hands on.

I downloaded a copy of Logic Pro that night and experimented with different sounds, the first two years I grew an obsession with becoming better at my production. Experimenting with Electronic and Hip Hop beats, I got signed to a record label for a one-song edm release when I was 14. But I really didn’t enjoy Electronic production as much as Rap music. Me and my friends would get together and record over my rap instrumentals using blankets as acoustic treatment, it was a fun time. But I knew I wanted to take my music career more seriously.

I spent time learning and crafting my production skills. I moved to London when I was 16 to live by myself there I worked with a lot of artists and connected with them online and in person. I slowly realized that the people I where working with were different and had the same level of commitment to the music as I did. I was always disappointed with the vocals they laid on my tracks.

So I decided to do it myself. I started learning how to rap, record, songwriting and everything that comes with being an artist. I didn’t want to release any music until I thought it was of a high enough degree. I moved back to Atlanta during COVID-19 and planned my first release “Doing The Most”. It’s been an eight years journey to just getting my first release out there, now I am committed to releasing since putting myself out there to the world has been my biggest setback.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Confidence, I really didn’t think the music I was making for a long time was good enough, I wasn’t confident in music as I should have been.

Overthinking, issues that aren’t even there.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
To be an artist in the present day, you must be a businessman. You must oversee so many different types of areas in your career to even get a footing in the door. Say for the production aspect, that includes (mixing, mastering, producing, songwriting, recording) I am my own tracking engineer. I have good enough home equipment to get great sounding recordings. I also am a music producer. I’ve been producing for eight years as well as I write my own songs and concept ideas.

Other sectors of being an artist include content creation marketing specialties, such as ad creation, content creation. A whole multitude of things that you need to be able to do, if you have an abundance of money than you could easily pay others to do tasks for you, but for me, my budget is low per month so I have to do most of the tasks myself for now, in a later date with more of a backing I will be able to build a team and outsource and delegate other tasks.

Contact Info:

• Email: reyonmanagement@gmail.com
• Website: 6plug.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reyon.fm/?hl=en
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reyonatl/?ref=pages_you_manage
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/REYONATL
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbTo0v0r0hozi_PEoSiT70g

Image Credits
Dinero.films Richie B