Today we’d like to introduce you to Omri Aruch
Hi Omri, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
I started as a classical pianist when I was 6 years old. I didn’t really play any other music or really sing until I was about 15-16 when I started to finally replicate all my musical influences. Whether it was rnb, soul, pop, bebop, more modern jazz, funk and even delving into some rock and singer/songwriter music at the time. I moved to a different high school specifically for music and just started to experiment with all these types of music and just would always be listening to something different.
I moved to Israel to study at Rimon in 2019 and just pretty much played jazz there. I was starting to mess around with logic a little bit and was kind of doing a few sessions, nothing really crazy. I’d been working with a great friend of mine Dan Navé in Sydney at his studio and just kind of doing gigs around Sydney, sessions and such, and released some music before I left to Israel in 2019 and finished high school at the end of 2018.
I cam back to Australia in 2020 due to COVID and would just work, play gigs and start to get into beatmaking and production during that time a lot more. I went to Berklee in 2021 to focus on music production as well as my piano playing. I wrote some more music, ended up singing a lot more and then eventually graduated and moved to LA in late 2024.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
It’s never been a smooth road. I’m always questioning myself in what I’m actually doing, and turning it into art man. At this point I just try to do as much as possible. Social media has always been really tough for me and just sharing my work in general is something that I definitely struggle with, even though I genuinely do really like the stuff that I do. Definitely not all of it, but sometimes I really feel as I just made a song that I’m really proud of and listen to it and really mess with it. I love that feeling. However I am very critical of my own work, often to the point of no return, but it’s something I’m improving at. The older I get the more you realise you can’t be doing that, the more you focus on making the music for yourself because you believe in what you do.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
First of all I couldn’t have been able to do any of my work without the people that around me that inspire and support me everyday. My parents are my biggest supporters and have made it possible for me to come halfway across the world to chase my dream, and my friends inspire me everyday, my musician friends and my non musician friends. Just a good bunch of blokes and chicks. I’m definitely most proud of who I’ve chosen to have around me in my life.
I’m an artist that goes by the name “Soulboi”. I have music out in the world as well as production and writing credits.
I am also an arranger and have worked with artists as an MD as well as playing keys for artists.
I have scored documentaries (Little Victories), done music for television (More Than This) and also made music for the NBA.
What are your plans for the future?
I’m really excited to start releasing more music and just creating more in LA. So far it’s been such a creatively driven city and I’,m already making such great music that I can’t wait to release. I’m still a baby in this city and have only been here for about 4 months.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulboiiii/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61565951370509
- Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4YKi4Z2UVeKOviC1fa9BAV?si=UrNKDecYRtqq1RXIkuMx1Q
Image Credits
Lane Dillworth
Kelly Davdison
