Aaron Valenzuela is a musician originally from The San Francisco Bay Area currently living in Los Angeles, California. He records under the moniker Harriet Brown. You can follow his work here: https://www.instagram.com/yourveryownhb/

In our conversation Aaron talks finding confidence as an artist and collaborator, losing sight of why we create, and learning to let go of precious ideas in order to write songs.

Born and raised in the San Francisco bay area, Aaron first became interested in music after singing in his churches choir, sparking a passion that followed through his adolescence. But it was after he started his studies as an architecture major at UC Berkeley that he realized it was music that he was truly determined to pursue. Without looking back Aaron changed his major to music and went on to graduate with a BA, launching the beginning of his musical journey in earnest.

After some time living and working in Oakland Aaron decided to move to Los Angeles in hopes of taking the next big step in making music his career. In the first few years living in LA, Aaron found himself taking every opportunity that popped up and in turn he began making concessions in his personal work that ultimately led him to lose sight of why he had moved in the first place. Thus began a period of self-reflection in which Aaron was able to reaffirm his passion for music and establish a way to make ends meet by releasing music under the moniker Harriet Brown as well as DJ’ing and scoring for commercials and films.

Included in the unedited version and in the second part of the episode Aaron and I talk about finding our personal fashion styles, world building when it comes to making music, how he's brought choreography into his work and his recent hobby of leather working.

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