Today we’d like to introduce you to Aaron Eliyahu.
Hi Aaron, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today.
All my life, I’ve been a writer. You can say it’s something that chose me at the age of twelve. I had nowhere else to put these feelings of my youth, so I remember writing my first poem in class, probably out of boredom! Since then, writing has been second nature to me, a place of refuge and solace. I remember in 2017. I decided I wanted to make more money, so naturally, I went into the financial world with the idea that I could make good money off my commissions. I failed effortlessly. I worked a whole year part-time for free. But there wasn’t a waste to this experience because the mental torture from cold-calling and knocking on doors made me revert to my calling, which was the spoken word. Mhmmm, I had been chasing someone else’s idea instead of the innate vocation given to me during adolescence. So I became the poet, the sage. Throughout human history, people have carried a writing tradition that records and recollects man’s course and actions. It is a tradition that can predict and advise humanity while sailing across the cosmos. When I discovered that lane, or when I came to myself, I understood my role in the community, and it wasn’t a stockbroker or an insurance rep. I committed my true career to music and writing after that, never looking back or questioning.
Would it have been a smooth road, and what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
I think some of the struggles are “staying committed” Carl Jung has a quote that says, “if you do not tell the world who you are, it will tell it for you.” Apart from the hard work and genuine effort of the daily grind, there is a constant belief that must be exercised repeatedly. The self-belief almost has to be delusional!
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For readers who might need to become more familiar, what can you tell them about what you do?
I’m an artist. I don’t like saying rapper because of the ignorance I associate with the term. I’m a poet that views his music as literature. as literary works that will be studied in the future.
Let’s talk about our city – what do you love? What do you not love?
Funny story I moved out to Kansas City in 2012 from California, and the difference was night and day. People hate when I say it, but I would never move back to Los Angeles. But I grew up in Kansas City, built my credit, and lived independently to get my first car out here. I learned how the weather changed my perspective and made me introverted and sensitive in the winter and how writing shifted according to the seasons.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aaroneliyahu/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HolmesandAdrian
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/AaronEliyahu
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPKIIfAg5Xm2nWx8IQVq20A
- SoundCloud: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/aaron-eliyahu/1450389888
