Today we’d like to introduce you to Ethan (Suaz) Savarin.
Hi Ethan, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
I fell in love with music at a young age being surrounded by a family of music lovers. My grandfather started Blues Alley in Memphis with his brother, Paul Savarin, and his other brother Joe Savarin started the Blues Foundation. Given this foundation I found myself falling in love with the creative process of music while making music with a group of friends after dropping high school.
I never really got the chance to see this process or engage in it given a less-than-ideal upbringing and always being on the move. Finding this craft gave me the purpose I otherwise lacked after quitting a seemingly promising esports career I had built from age 13-17. Now after many hardships have been overcome I spend 90% of my time in my home studio trying new things and developing my sound as the world evolves. I see it as rooting for me now and without music I’m not sure what I’d be doing today.
My mother is in prison under charges such as forgery, identity, and theft over $500,000. Won’t disclose the name Attended a boarding school as it was a better option than being homeless and they took me and my sister in for free given my father had his own upbringing there. I actually started off as a cameraman knowing I wanted to do something in the industry but wasn’t sure what was for me given my quieter and personal traits. The building I was working in, 4u Recording Memphis, actually is what inspired me to all in as an artist.
If this fails, I fail. So therefore I will not fail. My mom always said “It’s very hard being good at too many things” as my effort and competitiveness never fails to drive me to be the best at something. and as that’s true I think with the effort I’m putting in on this one will prove to be its own.
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?
My mother basically tore my father’s life apart in my infant years, from theft to cheating it was a rocky foundation, to say the least. From my moment of I guess what you’d call “consciousness,” I always remember fighting in the house, family drama and my grandparents’ dissatisfaction, and moving from state to state with my father as he tried everything to keep a roof over my, my sister, and his own head.
After years of couch surfing and sleeping in airport windows, we were put in boarding school for 3 years which was a free opportunity given the struggle. I personally think it did more harm than good for me as it was during my middle school years which I think is critical to a person’s social construct and how they will develop social queues. I had a very hard time adapting to this going into high school I eventually got my head on straight.
Shortly before high school during my junior high years, my mother was going through her initial criminal investigation in which three confiscated everything that was paid for during the charged time and arrested her leaving her then-husband at home alone with no power water, etc.
I felt for the man and went over to their house to check on him with my grandmother and collected a TV to sell and gave him the money to stay on his feet, I got a TV, sold it the same day, and came back the next and found that he had committed suicide in the garage where I found him, this was a rough experience for me and definitely gave me a reality check. Still, question things about that moment to this day.
In 2020 I was roofied at a bar in Memphis and drove my way home. I ended up going off of the road, flipping my car a couple of times into some trees, and out of my back windshield, this left me partially deaf in my right and and pretty much disabled for a year. I am very lucky to survive and never mind with such low injuries. I fought back to 100% and am better than ever. Currently in a much better place and the future is looking better.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I am I recording artist from Memphis TN with a non-Memphis TN sound but definitely a taken influence. I get more proud of what I create with every next record and my evolution as an artist is still yet to be complete.
Is there anyone you’d like to thank or give credit to?
My good friend Grant Keller, aka Percy Bluu, is heavily responsible for the sound and quality I am able to produce today. He helped me ground up and create my sound and increase my mixing/engineering talents. Without him, I’m sure I’d still be making much lower-than-par music. Will always be a brother of mine.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: Instagram.com/suazmusic
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@suazmusic?si=WEk5c_dqSOewskQU
- Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/51LP5ppbOHBGUZJbba3w8J?si=ui3FnPAeRZ2KndYZny2LEg
