WAY UP
WAY UP
Yamahas Initiative für aufstrebende Talente, bei der neue Künstler und Musik vorgestellt werden.
EPISODE 1: WRITING & COMPOSING
6 upcoming artists who haven’t met before, arrive at the House of Talents in Barcelona. They form teams of two and start their mission to create songs in three days, leading up to a final performance of their work in an intimate concert. The first episode captures the beginning of this creative journey, from the artists getting to know each other, to start writing lyrics and composing melodies.
EPISODE 2: STUDIO TIME
On the second day in the House of Talents, the artists get the chance to experiment with their tracks in the villa’s home studio. Producer Jesus supports them with refining song layers and exploring new instruments. Yamaha artist Miki Santamaria pays a visit to support the new talents in their creative process.
EPISODE 3: FINAL PERFORMANCE
On the final day in the House of Talents the artists get ready to perform their individual songs that they have been working on the past days. In an intimate concert they showcase their results in front of each other.
Ignacio Serrano
Madrid based Ignacio Serrano is a Spanish artist with a cheerful charisma and personality. As a singer-songwriter, he wants to share his very personal life experiences through music. Ignacio’s style does not pretend to be anything new but proves to genuinely come from his heart.
Olivia Dean
UK singer-songwriter Olivia Dean does not only have an incredibly soulful voice, but also an unbelievable talent to write captivating songs. Olivia approaches song writing with seeing songs as little time capsules of life experiences that you can look back on.
JNR Williams
JNR Williams is a singer-songwriter from Hackney, London. His warm and unique voice makes him stand out and evokes a wonderful variety of emotions in his listeners. JNR has different approaches to song writing, often just starting with a chord and jamming different melodies.
Sara Cruz
Portuguese artist Sara Cruz has a magical personality and amazing talent, with an incredible voice and distinctive guitar skills. Her background is just as captivating, as she lives on a small island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
Rubin Henkel
Rubin Henkel is a German/Canadian pianist and composer for film and media based in Berlin. When Rubin composes a piece of music, he likes to establish a particular concept behind the song first. In the House of Talents, he soaked up the atmosphere by recording live sounds from the villa.
Marc Mâhfoud
Marc Mâhfoud is a vocalist, lyricist, instrumentalist, composer and producer who as a child, migrated from Syria to Germany with his parents. Marc later moved to the Netherlands and intensified his passion for art and music. His mission is to liaise (social) science and sound into an honest fusion of traditional instruments and electronically driven compositions.
TOKYO, JAPAN
UK artists JNR Williams and Wyldest from London meet with US artist Maggie Miles from Nashville. At the Yamaha Ginza Hall in Tokyo, the emerging artists share experiences in song-writing and how music empowers them to express their emotions and convey a message.
