Q. Good day, Miles Squiers! We appreciate you taking the time to speak with us. The first thing we want to know is how would you describe your sound to someone who’s never heard your music before?
A. I would describe my sound to someone who’s never heard my music before as cinematic and melodic Alternative R&B, Pop, and Hip-Hop—full of catchy choruses and well-produced instrumentals throughout that allow me to tell stories while keeping the listener engaged and bobbing their head.
Q. Is there a specific song in your catalog that you feel defines who you are as an artist? Why that one?
A. A specific song in my catalog that I feel defines who I am as an artist would be my 2024 release, “24 Hours.” It’s a very smooth and groovy R&B cut that opens the listener to my perspective on the dangers of love and how relationships can affect people. Sonically, the song is fully produced and written by me, with some help from Matoby (a producer and mixing/mastering engineer out of Miami) to bring out that sound/mix fully. It’s also the first music video that I got to shoot in Nashville, and my talented friends and I had a blast making that film. It just so happens to be one of my most streamed songs to this day.
Q. If you could collaborate with any artist, living or dead, who would it be and why?
A. If I could collaborate with any artist, living or dead, the two artists would be Drake and Michael Jackson. They both have a way of incorporating cinematic production and catchy melodies to promote the emotion and feel of the stories they tell on the mic. Another would be Kendrick Lamar, but that’s more because I would love to see how that man thinks and acts during a session. Dude is special, and just learning from that experience would be amazing. Rihanna would also be awesome.
Q. What's the biggest risk you've taken in your career so far, and what did you learn from it?
A. The biggest risk I took as an artist was flying out to Miami for writing camps and label sessions for the first time. I was invited by my manager at the time, who worked at Mr. 305 Records, to work with some of their producers, songwriters, and engineers for a few days. I looked at it as a risk because they primarily focused on Reggaeton and Latin Pop music, and I felt like my sound was a bit different. I quickly learned that there are so many similarities between my music and the genres that the label works with. Those sessions taught me how to be a chameleon and allowed me to offer suggestions to move a song in a certain direction or feel, whether that be lyrically or instrumentally.
Q. If this interview was the last thing someone read before listening to your music, what would you want them to know?
A. If this interview was the last thing someone read before listening to my music, I would want them to know that I put my all into it. Every production decision, lyric decision, promotional decision, content/visual decision, and more has been thought out by me and my talented friends whom I went to music school with in Nashville. I know that I may be independent, but I offer a professional sound that is pleasing to listeners’ ears while also memorable. If you’re looking for an artist that has full creative control and makes cinematic, melodically catchy music, you’re in the right place.
