Daily Inspiration: Meet John White

Today we’d like to introduce you to John White.

Hi John, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
Last time we spoke, I told you all that my story started with a shared love of music with my dad. I knew I loved music, I knew I loved how it made us feel, and I always wanted to make people feel seen and connected, somewhere as big as a stadium and as personal as your bedroom.

What’s interesting is how much has changed since the last time we spoke. In the past two years, I got to a point where I stopped making music for me and my father and started creating music to understand myself more, and to develop a more personal relationship with it. The more I made and released music, the more I began to understand that it was always a means of communication for me. A way for me to explain how I feel about the world, and a way for people to understand the things that are important to me.

Alright, 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?
It hasn’t been a smooth road. It’s true that growing comes with pain, and it’s been difficult trying to balance change, heartbreaks, and losses while trying to protect the art you’re making. I’ve lost creative partnerships along the way, putting trust in people who I thought would be there and realizing adulthood comes with an eternal game of tug of war. Disagreements and fallouts feel like a part of growing up, but it feels like it should also just be a five-minute conversation. Something that pulls people together under a shared vision. When you’re working at this level, as an independent artist creating with your hands more than with your wallet, it’s so much easier to work when everyone understands that we’re here to build each other up. I guess it’s easy to be misunderstood and also misunderstand someone.

What I’ve learned from all this is that sometimes being honest with the people closest to you is the hardest thing to do. Now, I feel like I’ve found a community of people who are honest with each other— and things just work. That’s the environment you should strive to be in.

Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
What do I do? I live life.
What do I specialize in? I write songs in my bedroom.
What am I known for? Being a good friend.

I try to make music that connects with people, because I make an effort to be as earnest as I can. We just dropped the deluxe edition of my latest album, Murphy’s Law, and it felt like putting that out into the world let me turn nameless feelings into words, themes, and sounds that will hopefully resonate. It’s about missing family, it’s about having self-doubt, it’s about realizing that what you were looking for was within you the whole time. I hope everyone can connect to that.

I’m most proud of my tenacity. I feel like I do music because I have to, not because I want to. Having done this for so long, I think it’s easy to get jaded and give up or follow trends. But I truly believe that if you create from a place of vulnerability, that will always carry you as far as you want to go.

What sets me apart from others is that I don’t like this question. Not in a bratty way, but because I don’t think anything should set us apart. If we saw eye to eye with every person we encountered, regardless of who they were, we would do so much better.

What makes you happy?
Chasing dreams with my friends.
If in the grand scheme of things nothing matters, shouldn’t we do what matters to us?

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.johnwhitesmusic.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnwhitesmusic/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/johnwhitesmusic
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@officialjohnwhite
• Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1UVoyard7BA5KdbK6JdTPx?si=uNO_K7eIRbiopVJZzx6dkw

Image Credits
Cole McCarthy
Victor M. Rocha