The first step in succeeding in the music business is to actually get in. It is easy to dream about pursuing a career in music, but it is difficult to act on it. One such dreamer is Jonathan Davids of Toronto, Ontario. We spoke to Jonathan about his experiences getting into the business, his first recorded song, and several more topics.

andPOP: What have you found to be the hardest part of the music business so far?

Jonathan Davids: Getting into it is really hard. I found that once [you've opened some doors] and met some people, networked a little bit, it’s a lot easier to get places and get things done. Before [I got into it], before I met [anyone], it was very difficult to take that first step.

AP: What have you enjoyed most about the music industry so far.

JD: Meeting people. I’ve met a lot of people. All the networking events I’ve been to. Getting different [ideas for songs]; it?s been very educational.

AP: What inspired you to write the song “You Know How I Feel”?

JD: I was actually at school [during frosh week], and I liked this girl and I knew another guy liked her also and so I just sat down one night and I was thinking about her and I wrote this song.

AP: What are your immediate and future goals right now?

JD: Right now I want to keep developing my song writing and get a larger repertoire of songs. I want to perform and just develop at what I’m doing before I try to make it to the big time.

AP: Who are your musical inspirations?

JD: It’s very broad. I have a very eclectic taste in music from pop to R&B, rock, classical, jazz…even oldies so I really can’t say a specific person, but it’s very eclectic.

AP: When did you realize you wanted to be a musician?

JD: When I was 12 years old I did a show with my school and something about the experience of doing it, I just started taking piano lessons and I started doing other shows and the rest is history.

AP: What’s your musical background?

JD: I took music all throughout high school and elementary school. I took private voice lessons and piano lessons and now I?m in the Faculty of Fine Arts in the music course at York University.

AP: How far do you see yourself going with this music career?

JD: Well this is what I want to do with my life so I intend to spend my life doing it. I want to be a recording artist and even get behind the scenes and do some producing and even get involved in the business aspect of it.

AP: Is there anyone in specific that you want to work with?

JD: Actually, I really like Alicia Keys. [She is a fairly] new artist, so I haven’t heard a lot of her stuff, but she has been pretty influential to me. A lot of the people I grew up listening to…I like Bon Jovi a lot, Whitney Houston.

AP: So lets say you had the chance to work with one of those artists, who would it be?

JD: I think right now, today, I’d like to work with Alicia Keys, because she is new to the scene and she probably has a lot of new ideas to get out there, whereas a lot of the other artists have already been around for a long time.

Check out JD on the web at jonathandavids.com.






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