![]() It’s that sense of I’m getting closer and I feel myself rising, but I’m not there yet and these are still all the struggles I’m going through, is still as relevant now as it was then. Each step I take there’s another place I’m trying to get and more that I’m trying to accomplish. Just being in the music industry, it is a journey and it’s always like this. So whenever I get on the stage, I can still relate to the song. It’s been wonderful to be able to connect with so many other people like folks that are just in the audience, fans, athletes, musicians, lawyers trying to pass the bar exam or doctors. ![]() I’ve gotten so many stories about how people feel the same way and how this helped motivate them. I never expected that at all from that song almost like an interlude mantra kind of thing. What is your advice to anyone who is looking to reach their dreams? It’s a blessing that it keeps coming back around. My advice is to really set goals short term and long term so that you have something to hold on to when everything else is coming your way. For me, it’s been important to keep building my craft and expand my vocal range and songwriting is really important to me. It’s also important to surround yourself with people you can trust so you’re not walking into rooms that you don’t need to by yourself but that someone and folks always have your back. Patience and persistence.Hump Day isn’t so bad when you’re performing at one of the world’s largest independent record stores, Amoeba Music in Hollywood. On Wednesday (June 6), R&B soul singer, songwriter, producer, activist and fashion designer Goapele celebrated the release of her new Dreamseeker EP with a live performance, meet and greet, and album signing. If you’re a Drake fan, you immediately recognize Goapele as the sample on his hit single “Closer To My Dreams,” found on his 2007 Comeback Season mixtape. Performing the record on stage in Los Angeles’ one stop shop for all things vinyl, nostalgia hit all those that were in attendance. “I love that ‘Closer’ has had so many lives,” Goapele says reflecting on her career. ![]() “People have been remixing it now for over a decade. I’m fans a lot of those artists that have touched on it, from Drake, to YG, to Kendrick, to different folks. ![]() It’s been 16 years since her Closer project. The Oakland-bred artist explains if she had, in fact, reached her dreams as she continues her journey in the industry. “I feel like I reached the dream I was striving for when I first wrote ‘Closer,’ and I have new dreams now,” she answers. “And I think that’s part of why I call this project Dreamseeker, because I feel like it’s kind of never-ending. I think it’s just to connect to people through music, and make them feel good.” Every time I get to the next place, there’s so much more that I want to do. ![]()
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