Community Highlights: Meet Jaxon Tredennick of Urban Cactus Studio

Today we’d like to introduce you to Jaxon Tredennick.

Jaxon, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I started playing music as a kid when I picked up the cello around 7 years old.

I continued to play until junior year in high school when I picked up music production. Ever since then, I started making beats daily and that brought to me Nashville, where I attend Belmont University for Audio Engineering.

Being creative and musical has always been a passion of mine, and being able to produce and engineer records while being in service to others is really where I am at today.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
There definitely hasn’t been anything smooth about this road. I’ve been privileged to have worked with so many talented individuals, but as an independent producer, it’s always a game of trying to make yourself as valuable as possible to others.

Coming from a place where I had no connections, no one around me who was already doing it, and really nobody to give me a stepping stone for my career.

Many people that are doing what I am doing don’t attempt to market themselves as artists, just as beat makers or producers that sit in the background, but I really feel like I am in this industry to use my voice and to connect.

That’s been the biggest challenge for me. There is always a songwriter or artist someone wants to connect with, but rarely do producers get much attention. I’m in it to change that narrative though.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about Urban Cactus Studio?
I started my business Urban Cactus Studio about 6 months ago in early 2022. Urban Cactus Studio is a recording studio that was created with the idea of being a free space for unseen artists in Nashville and across the country really.

A place for hip-hop artists in Nashville to come and feel like they were in a place that understood their music and their stories as well as for country artists to come and feel understood as well. The name Urban Cactus comes from my upbringing in inner-city Texas, where I felt like I was surrounded and taken up by urban culture and music.

As I grew up, I ventured out of the city and really dove into my Texas roots and learned more about country music and country culture, and immediately I saw that the two different sides couldn’t understand or appreciate each other.

The cactus comes from the Texas roots and the deserts of El Paso that my dad grew up in. The goal of my business is to connect the two cultures, and everything in between because, at the end of the day, we are all artists and deserve to be heard.

Alright, so to wrap up, is there anything else you’d like to share with us?
Thank you for tuning in to hear what I have to say. I hope to meet anybody reading this and if you are an artist in Nashville and you are looking to work with someone new, hit me up.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/Jsix.6
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shoutoutjsix/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shoutoutjsix/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/shoutoutjsix
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGDVdyrJWtJRmA5Yck4ltMQ

Image Credits
Chase Foster and Jacob Jones