Meet Trailblazer Bvnk Adekoya

Today we’d like to introduce you to Bvnk Adekoya.

Thanks for sharing your story with us. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
I discovered my love for music back in high school. Thanks to my dad. He got me an after-school English teacher who engaged me in spelling drill and made sure I looked up the meaning of 20 words before the next class. I had this teacher Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays which means every week, I learned 60 new words and their meaning(s). This spelling drill process helped me discover my love for English studies and I delved into creative writing, rhyming and eventually forming words in my head which I started to write down and turned into music.

Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
This musical journey hasn’t been an easy journey for me. The most important/hardest part of the journey was finding myself, asking myself who I truly am, what type of music do I want to be known and remembered for and most importantly the message I want to portray. I’d like to say that while I’m still growing, I am grateful for the learning experience through it all and my advice to anyone who wants to take music as a life long profession is to be true to yourself, give value in form of a message. You don’t want to look back so many years and regret what your music stands for because the words we put out can affect people’s lives. Yes, we can argue that music can be wiped off the surface of the internet but that’s not really true… we can’t completely erase it from countless devices that have it downloaded or even from the minds of people that are fans and have it registered somewhere in their brains or heart

Please tell us more about what you do, what you are currently focused on and most proud of.
I am a creative. I express myself through my unique fashion, music. When it comes to music, I write, I sing and I rap. The most important thing you’ll come to find about my music is that most of it is true life experiences. I have to be talking about something. It could be about love, society norms. There has to be a value. I don’t just make music that sounds sonically nice. There has to be a message or even a story. It’s a whole experience I put into those few minutes. The hardest type of music to make is conscious music, meaningful music packed with message because society has been brainwashed that good music is one with good rhythm and makes you dance… for me, music shouldn’t only make you forget your pains and struggle… sometimes music should evoke emotions, make you ask questions, bring about a movement and present the facts of reality… I’m most grateful that I am gifted with words to heal people going through pains from any type of abusive relationship or any kind of unpleasant experience in life in general

Finding a mentor and building a network are often cited in studies as a major factor impacting one’s success. Do you have any advice or lessons to share regarding finding a mentor or networking in general?
To be good at what you do, study the greats, what did they do? Experiment, if you fail, try again, you’ll eventually figure it out. Practice your craft… that’s the only way to get better.. I remember when I started singing and making music in general, I knew what I wanted but I didn’t sound as good, so I literally practiced in the shower, while driving. Till this date, I still aim for “almost perfect” … no one is perfect… I take life as a whole as a continuous and never-ending learning process. This rule will work in any aspect of life

Contact Info:

• Website: https://fanlink.to/bQ7H
• Email: officialbvnkartist@outlook.com
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/bvnk_official
• Twitter: www.twitter.com/bvnk_official

Image Credit:
Israel Aguilar, Sean Asakura

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