Javier Aponte shared their story and experiences with us recently and you can find our conversation below.
Hi Javier, thank you so much for taking time out of your busy day to share your story, experiences and insights with our readers. Let’s jump right in with an interesting one: What’s more important to you—intelligence, energy, or integrity?
For me the most important thing between intelligence, energy, or integrity is integrity. Theat says everything about you and how you behave in terms of work, business and personal matters.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My name is Javier Aponte, I,’m based in Nashville TN and I am a musician / producer. I have my recording studio and I record drums, percussion, programming, and also produce music for artists. What makes my work interesting and special is the fact that I submerse myself into the client’s (singer, songwriter, musician) story and what he or she wants to narrate in music. I really enjoy that process, I make it my own, that makes me put 200% of me in that project, enjoying every single minute of it!
Thanks for sharing that. Would love to go back in time and hear about how your past might have impacted who you are today. Who saw you clearly before you could see yourself?
My grandpa was the person that knew I was gonna be a professional musician. Since I was a little boy, he saw me hitting books and pillows with pencils. He even helped me sometimes to arrange the books by the tone each book produced so that I could have a more clear view of tones in the drum set. And he was the one who gave me my first drum set in my 12th birthday.
What did suffering teach you that success never could?
Oh wow! This is an awesome question! Well, I think suffering teaches me character. I’ve learned in life that things do not come easy, sometimes is hard, some times is very hard and some times you suffer in the process. And I might say that some times you have to go through suffering in order to achieve the desired goal! That is real life!! But once we go through all of that and we achieve that goal, we look back and we can say: I learned to be resilient, I know’ how it feels to get here, I know what it takes… Suffering reveals who you really are, where’s your faith, how strong you are under that storm that’s making you suffer, how big of a person you are to resist suffering. And all that stuff is what builds character in me, in us!
Next, maybe we can discuss some of your foundational philosophies and views? Is the public version of you the real you?
Yes it is… As they say: “What you see is what you get!” And I’ll add, for “better or worse” hahahahha! If I’m not real in just one aspect of me, I am being a fraud, first with my own self and then with others. That shows a lack of integrity or no integrity at all! If you lack on integrity, then you have a problem…
Okay, we’ve made it essentially to the end. One last question before you go. Are you doing what you were born to do—or what you were told to do?
I deeply believe I am doing what I was born yo do, no questions asked. And I know it because every day I am more and more clear in the fact that creating and producing music in not just an art form, is a language, a form of communication that sometimes doesn’t requiere words. Understanding that is a gift only musicians that are born to do this understand, the rest of the “civilians” enjoy the results of it. Watching people enjoying the result of my doing is the confirmation that I am doing what I was born to do.
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