CONNOR TERRONES Multi-Genre Musician We caught up with the talented Multi-Genre Musician out of Denver, Connor Terrones. When did you first get into music? Please explain. I’ve ALWAYS loved listening to music, but I first started playing music when I was about ten. My first instrument was trombone. I needed to pick an instrument to play in school band and I picked trombone because I saw it in a video game once. I believe the video game was Donkey Kong 64. Who or What inspired you to pursue a career in music? By the time I was around 13 or 14, I definitely knew I wanted to pursue a career in music. I fell deeply in love with guitar (I still am) and just wanted to play it all the time. My favorite bands at the time were Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath, so I learned a lot of songs from those bands at the time.
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How has your music evolved since you first started in the music industry? Throughout my entire career, I’ve been searching for what style of music is right for me. There’s times that I’ve focused on rock music exclusively, but there’s also times where I’ve focused on jazz music exclusively. In
the past couple years, I started realizing that there isn’t just one style of music that’s right for me. I love pop, rock, jazz, r&b, funk, soul, hip-hop and blue so much that I started writing and recording music that consolidated all of those sounds together. I’m not really sure what to label the music I’m currently making. If you were forced to choose only one, which emotion, more than any other, drives you to stay in this tough industry? Is it joy, anger, desire, passion or pride and why? I guess it’s not an emotion, but purpose is what keeps me going. I truly believe that the reason I was put on this planet was to create music. There’s nothing else in my life that has made as much sense to me as music. There’s nothing else that has made me feel so alive. I’ve dedicated my life to creating music. Which ingredient do you think makes you special and unique as a performing artist in an industry overflowing with new faces and ideas? My versatile taste in music certainly makes me unique as a musician. You can very clearly hear in
