Meet Gabor Joseph

Today we’d like to introduce you to Gabor Joseph.

Gabor, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
I heard ‘Twist and Shout’ in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and became attached music ever since then starting with the Beatles. Music was a universal tool for me that I was able to apply to into the most important parts of my life at that time. I turned off the world and buried my face into my favorite CD’s. At that age, I was gradually becoming aware of my surroundings while being accompanied by music always playing in my ears. The fusion between the two universal forces of music and nature pulled me away into my own world inspiring me to become a musician. I picked up the guitar when I was 12 and decided I had no talent so I put It back down, then I picked it back up to only put it back down again and finally picking it up again one last time leading me to where I am now. That relationship was complicated… throughout middle school and high school I wrote songs in my little journals and on my phone. I didn’t have the confidence to really project that music the way I wanted to. I couldn’t really sing, I could barely keep time, even the grammar I used in my songs was pretty off. I still go through that now to be honest with you.

It wasn’t until I had joined a band in my sophomore year. It gave me the confidence to be myself around people who were as excited as I was about music, that alone created wonders. I was in love with that, it became the center of my world and it was my escape from the world. We played a handful of shows that drove me closer to what I felt was freedom.

Those experiences led me to find my own world in music, make it my own thing in a way. It’s built a better bond with songwriting which has grown into a really exciting thing for me and I’m always pushing to make something thats really good, something that came from me and the world around me. I’d like to live the rest of my life trying searching for that world again through my own creations, although I don’t feel like I’m there, I don’t think I will ever feel like I’ve made it there.

Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
The road is more rocky than it is smooth, for me at least. I guess you could say it’s my own flaws, I wanted to be like my favorite artist so I took notes and developed an unhealthy obsession with my idols. I was 18 years old trying to compose a song that would be up to par with someone like Leonard Cohen.

I felt unsatisfied with myself and that negative voice thats in my head always telling me, “You’re going to mess it all up, you’ve messed up so much already” isolates me into my fear bubble, believing that I’m no good and that I really have no worth at all as a person.

Confidence is something I lack as well; I’ve had a really hard time trying to put myself out there as an artist let alone accepting myself as an artist. I’m constantly struggling with myself in my own head trying to accept myself as an artist and then telling myself I’m not really an artist, I’m just someone who writes and plays whilst telling myself, “God you’re so pretentious what’s wrong with you?” it takes an obvious toll on your mental health when you’ve been doing that to yourself for a couple of years.

What else should our readers know?
Its mostly playing music. I try to worry about the economy of what I’m in because it’s easy to let that influence you and raise the expectations of your art.

Do you look back particularly fondly on any memories from childhood?
Childhood is always hard to talk about. I guess my mind goes into a million different places. What sucks the most is that my mind will tend to the more upsetting memories. Looking back at childhood I loved playing outside and staying out till it got dark, those were really great times. My neighbors and I would play baseball in our apartment complex and play out our favorite movie scenes using our imaginations. One thing that comes to mind is trying to recreate Man vs. Wild in our apartment complex by eating the dandelions and climbing trees, it makes me laugh thinking about it now.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://gaborjoseph.bandcamp.com/stats#zbuzz
• Phone: 909-835-3723
• Email: gabordobos17@gmail.com
• Instagram: unemployedcowboy
• Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/073T55v7K8s6bcvagAvEjp

Image Credit:
Alyssa Pimentel (Karma) instagram: adriannakarma

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