David Sawyer is a younger Sierra Leone playlister at the moment pursuing his Masters’s Degree in Information Systems in Cyprus. He is a Musicophile, at any time when he’s not learning for uni he’s doing the factor he loves greatest.
“I just love music, I enjoy everything about music. Music is truly an art I admire. I spend at least 3-4 hours a day listening to music on a normal day.”
David Sawyer
Research finished by a set of Johns Hopkins researchers reveals that listening to music can scale back nervousness, blood stress, and ache in addition to enhance sleep high quality, temper, psychological alertness, and reminiscence. In 2015 Sawyer created his first playlist however didn’t share it with the public, he created 29 extra after that nevertheless it took him 5 years of curating, listening, and critiquing for him to lastly garner the confidence to share his first playlist “14 Days Quarantine” with the public in 2020. Since then he has printed 10 extra playlists, the most up-to-date being “Sunset Chill”.
“The point of a good playlist is that it’s an anchor for something much longer” in response to common New York DJ Venus X. One of the key attributes of the playlist Sawyer creates is the way it flows seamlessly from music to music and style to style. Achieving this isn’t a simple feat, the playlister must have a very huge information of music and its completely different genres.
“I have a playlist where I add random songs every day that I call “ The kitchens”. So at any time when I determine to curate a new playlist, these are the songs I am going again to, hearken to them, and add them to the new playlist.”
David Sawyer
One distinctive factor about his playlist is the variety of upcoming artists he options in them utilizing their songs to create a distinctive expertise while permitting the listener to find a new vibe. This, nonetheless, shouldn’t be one thing frequent to different playlists created by Sierra Leonean playlisters and that is because of the proven fact that upcoming artists should not given the consideration they deserve.
“In Sierra Leone, the likes of Kaygee ADN, Vybra, Nesta Ali, TMA, Cass Haile, Semi Auto, Selenks, Laik, Amash, and many more are artists making exceptional music not only on a Salone level but on an international level but their songs are not given the attention and publicity it deserves.”
David Sawyer
Sawyer’s playlist has been receiving some good suggestions and reactions from his followers however he says that’s not sufficient and regardless of the good critiques they’re nonetheless not as common as he anticipated although he’s proud of the progress and the way far he has come. For all this difficult work he doesn’t obtain a single Cent in return admitting that his focus shouldn’t be on the cash however to extend his viewers and followers, he says his motivation is the music.
“What keeps me motivated is simply the music. There are so many talented artists in Sierra Leone and Africa. And as long as these artists keep doing their thing, I’ll be doing mine.”
David Sawyer
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