Today we’d like to introduce you to Juliette Irons.
Hi Juliette, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
I always knew music was it for me. I grew up in a small city called St. Catharines in Canada, playing instruments and training as a dancer. After highschool I decided dance was the safer path for me, and something I truly also love, while music took a bit of a backseat. So I moved to LA at 18 years old and started taking classes and auditioning. After over a decade of making my way as a choreographer and dancer while making music on the side, I finally hit a point where I believed in my music enough to really commit to it. I had only made music on my laptop in my bedroom until that point, but I finally hired a producer named 9 theory who transformed my music into something professional enough for me to officially release it. He taught me alot and so when the pandemic came along I started producing my own music. Soon after, that first single that I released with 9 theory got placed in a commercial for Transition Lenses and has allowed me to support myself to become a full time musician!! At the time I was making emotional songwriter music and experimenting with different genres, but fast forward to now, I feel like I have finally found my sound. I’m working with a brilliant Producer Jake Magness, making the Pop-Punk type music that I grew up on and inspired me in the first place!!
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
It definitely has NOT been a smooth road, but they say it’s all part of the journey right? Making a consistent income as a dancer is definitely not easy. I’ve had so many weird gigs, days where I didn’t have enough money to buy food, living a 5 hour plane ride away from my family feeling very lonely and confused if everything was ever going to work out. Not to mention having to take the bus and ride my bike to work in LA (if you know LA, you know that’s a tough one). I basically was broke for most of the last 16 years. Only recently I’ve finally become financially stable. I’ve also suffered through some tough mental battles including anxiety and eating disorders – but I am very thankful to say I have a therapist now and am feeling so much better!! If you just keep going, it really does get easier.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I specialize in taking a painful experience and turning it onto a song. Something you want to listen to that makes you feel better. That is my whole goal in life, to help others who can relate to me, through my music. I’m known for being a sort of Punk version of Taylor Swift, I think because I have a way with words but with a certain rough edge that sets me apart. I am most proud of going to Iceland to film the music video for my first official single “Lighthouse”. It was a crazy adventure to go by myself and meet up with an Icelandic Cinematographer but I just knew it was going to be the best time of my life, and it really was. That song just paid my rent for the next while! So I was right.
What’s next?
Right now I am recording an album, but I have so many big dreams. My goal is to open for Machine Gun Kelly on tour, and to have him feature on one of my songs. I am about to make it happen. He is my biggest inspiration, as well as artists like Avril Lavigne, Halsey, and Linkin Park (the list is long). I am going to play arenas – and eventually sell them out myself as the headliner, and have millions of people to hear my music and be affected by it.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.julietteirons.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julietteirons
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/julietteirons
- Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/julietteirons
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/julietteirons
