Alto Key, an independent London-based artist who makes indie/alt-pop music, is a musician whose music has the power to uplift the spirits, punch you in the gut, and squeeze a tear from your heart. He is also delightfully and hilariously funny on his various social media channels, and boasts over 6.7 million likes and 375,000 followers on his TikTok channel.
"It's all about the story you're trying to tell and are you connecting with your audience," he says of his approach to his music.
His video for his single "Burning Up" is the People's Choice winner for Making Music's spring 2021 Community Video contest, and we were able to sit and chat with Alto (aka Keian Barton) about his music, his songwriting, how he created "Burning Up" (both song and video - • Burning Up ) as well as his single "Colourless" ( • Colourless ), what his advice is to up-and-coming artists looking to make their mark on the world, and what are his future career plans.
The song “Burning Up" -- the video for which is an animated set of incidents showing personified animals breaking free of the oppressing aspects of their lives -- is about following your dreams. “We get caught up in this rat race, and we get caught up in maybe doing stuff we don’t always want to do, especially from a job point of view but life decisions as well," Alto says of how and why he wrote the song. "You should just follow what you really want to do and don’t let other people or other circumstances take that away from you because you’ve only got one life to live, so let’s make it count, and let’s not burn up doing the things that we don’t want to do.”
Since starting in 2018, Alto Key has released a number of EPs and singles, been played on various radio stations and podcasts in the UK, and won multiple awards. For 2021, he plans to focus his music-making on "more low-fi, bedroom pop" style music, making tunes more "intimate and personal" that tells his stories while also connecting with his audience.
“At the end of the day, the main thing I’m trying to make, when I’m making a good song, is something that people want to listen to again and again," he says.
Alto Key's Links:
Website: altokey.com
KZitem: / @altokeymusic
Instagram: / altokeymusic
Twitter: / altokeymusic
TikTok: / altokeymusic
Негізгі бет Музыка "It's all about the story" - An Interview with Alto Key, Community Video People's Choice winner
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