Music Producer

Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?

A: I did a song for Venom movie from Marvel that ended up becoming a Pusha T song. It's called No Problem.

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: Executive Production on an album for a Sony Artist in Portugal. Producing a couple of singles major artists in Portugal.

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Both.

Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?

A: I always do stuff I actually want to listen to.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: Making dope stuff.

Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?

A: Regarding royalties and publishing. I take a royalty percentage of the master - the lower the payment fee, the bigger my percentage is I take a publishing fee as a writer. The percentage always depends on what I do - Did I start the beat? Did I receive stems and just tweaked a few things?

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: Do you have a reference? Do you have previous songs? What's your vision on this?

Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?

A: Try to know what you actually want.

Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?

A: I've been a music producer for over 10 years. Was signed to Sony Music Publishing until last year and I'm working now as an independent. For 6 years I worked in Redmojo on the initial team as a music producer where we work with the biggest household names in Portugal, Spain and India, alongside over 20 music advertising campaigns.

Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?

A: Kanye West for too much reasons to name.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: For every song you work you must start with full child creativity and playfully enjoy it. If you don't start like that try to go away from that song.

Q: What type of music do you usually work on?

A: From Hip Hop to Pop.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Understanding and reaching desired sound.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: Putting my taste on what I do plus consistency on hard work has been working for several years to bring extra vision and value to the songs.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: I like to start with a reference or something to work as trigger, could be a voice or just a song reference with ideas in the mix.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: Apollo, Focal Speakers, Studio One, Gretsch and many others.

Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?

A: Kanye West, Rick Rubin, Mike Dean and many others.

Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.

A: Full Production and Beat Making.