BY COOPER
My name is Miles Gordon Jamison, I’m 17 years old. Born and raised in Minneapolis Minnesota, my dad is from Mississippi, my mom is from Wisconsin, I have two older brothers, Malcolm and Ellis.
When did you start making music and why did you start?
I started playing guitar in like 4th grade because my brother was in high school, and he joined the soccer team, he wanted to stop taking his guitar lessons, so I started taking his guitar lessons. So that’s when I started playing music, I played a Bob Marley song and a Wyclef Jean song in my 5th grade graduation ceremony. I just started because I liked listening to music and it looked like a lot of fun. I just thought why not become a rockstar or some shit like that.
Who are the people you’re making music with, and who do you want to make music with?
Right now, and for most of my musical career, I’ve been making music with Ruby Mitchell (“R.a.D” on soundcloud), and Tommy Bates (“Aadi” on soundcloud). Those are two of my closest friends, and we’ve just been growing, and exploring all the types of different music we like together. I also make a lot of music with my brother Malcolm, and we’re going for a certain sound with our music, trying to bring people the emotions that our family has, the things our family is going through. I also make a lot of music with Gabe Rodreick, and Treading North. We write a lot together, and jam, and again trying to make emotional music. Everything I’m doing right now I’m trying to really put work and emotion into, not just a quick song. I hope to continue making music with all these people, because they’re like my family, it’d be cool to make music for a big name, like make a beat for Lil Uzi Vert or something like that. And locally too, it’d be cool to collaborate with Corbin or something, people in that scene, people in the Twin Cities.
What do you want your music to say about yourself?
Every song I make has a different purpose, usually it’s just to express the anger I’m feeling, I just want people to have something to dance to, and something to move to, everybody seems really lost, trying to have a good time. I just wanna help them out.
How does who you are change the music you make?
I think the fact that my dad came from Mississippi, and he grew up listening to really revolutionary music, like Marvin Gaye, and a lot of bluesy kind of stuff, and jazz. That had a big influence, because I’ve been listening to that stuff since I was like 5, and that kind of just like, that music really made me feel something, so it made me really want to make music that makes you feel something, emotional music.
What’s important about your art that people won’t know, just by listening to it?
It’s like my, motivation to live, I think without music, I think I’d just be empty, there wouldn’t be anything I’d want to do. Every song I make I’m putting a lot of myself into. I’m trying to put an exact portrayal of how I’m feeling, or at least as close as I can.
What do you see for your future in art?
I hope to be living off playing shows, and making art. Playing shows as often as like four times a week or something like that, as much as I possibly can. In a few years I either want to be writing music, making a beat, performing, eating good food, buying nice things for me and my friends.
Where are you with your music right now, and what are you going to do to get where you want to be?
Right now I just need to keep making music, I need to work on projects I think, get more shows as a producer, or mc. Rather than playing guitar, I want to get my voice heard, as well as Ruby, and Tommy, and my brother. I have a sound already, I want to get the softwares I need, like Logic, and Ableton, I just keep making hella music.
