Corpus Christi leaders push to grow local film industry after \u2018Landman\u2019 shoutout<\/a><\/p>\nRaps and Apps Executive Director Jeremy Wells, who performs under the stage name Jeristotle, said the idea stems from his own struggles as a young artist more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe ended up getting a grant for $20,000 from the Coastal Bend Community Foundation, and that is going to help us bring 15 artists in an original professionally recorded song,\u201d Wells said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to do an artist interview and create a professional music video for them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wells said that level of production can be life-changing for independent musicians.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo this serves as a digital business card for these artists,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause a lot of times, whenever you’re trying to get a gig, you have to send them something. You have to send them some material. So this will be like a very polished, high fidelity digital representation of that artist.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beyond helping artists book shows, Wells said the experience can reshape how musicians see themselves.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of these artists have never heard themselves \u2014 what they sound like when they have a professionally produced recording,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re comparing themselves to these artists out here who have millions of dollars going behind their production. What we want to do is let them hear what they sound like when they have professionally produced recording, what they look like when they have professionally produced videos, and then use that to get them gigs out of town.\u201d<\/p>\n
The program is designed to remove one of the biggest barriers young musicians face: cost.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaking original music is very expensive \u2014 that\u2019s the hard part for musicians,\u201d Wells said. \u201cThey get paid to play their gigs, but they have to pay rent as well. So it\u2019s either sometimes, do I pay rent or do I pay for this music video?\u201d<\/p>\n
By covering production expenses, organizers hope to not only elevate individual artists, but also strengthen the region\u2019s music scene and keep talent in the Coastal Bend.<\/p>\n
Applications for the Golden Mic Artist Accelerator Program are available at rapsandapps.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Golden Mic Artist Accelerator aims to grow and keep musical talent in Corpus Christi with a free…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-173959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}