Meet Echo The Savage | Artists Who Truly Turn Their Passion into Careers

We had the good fortune of connecting with Echo The Savage and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Echo the Savage, what do you attribute your success to?
Courage, Love, authenticity and constant creation and building great relationships are definitely some key factors to my brand.

Courage:
The name of my business is Brave and Fortunate. I think that encompasses the philosophy behind why I do what I do and why I strive for things I am doing now. It may seem a little delusional starting out, but because I started with that belief in myself and the ability to be brave I think that’s the only way to really gain the fortune that you’re looking for out of life. It’s not just like the monetarily fortune, but just like to find success in what you’re doing and to find the risks worthwhile to you.
I took the risk, so where I’ve gotten in my career is really just a testament to the fact that I have been consistent in this belief since I started my career in music and entertainment. The core value is to just figure out a way to really not stop doing what you want to do, because the more time you put into that the more of a master you become. Then people are going to want to work with you. I think that for a producer that’s pretty important for me because I’d love to not only work on my own visions but help other people fully realize their visions as well.

Love:
I am always grateful that my full-time job is making music. They say if you do what you love for a living the rule is you gotta do it twice as much as people who do what they don’t love for a living. Even my breaks are filled with music cause it’s what I’d be doing anyway even if I wasn’t being paid. You gotta be truly obsessed with your craft on a spiritual, almost a religious level to be on par with what one in the industry would or should expect of themself.

Authenticity:
I always sought for a taste of heavier music that strayed from the norm, which has been my niche now. Growing up in a single-parent household with all females (my mom and 5 sisters, even when I was a young child, I loved to wait sitting cross-legged watching MTV TRL and my favorite Korn or Linkin Park songs. Writing music has been like blood to me and definitely a way of expression and communicating with other people. I come from a half Filipino background and love expressing some feelings and stories-telling through music that minorities echo with. However, the music production at our studio and events have bridged throughout the mainstream culture and with all people as well.

Creation:
I started off writing music to compose ideas that I heard in my head. Even to these days, my writing and production is a more tactical approach to that effect. After signing and producing with Sony, I started the studio Brave & Fortunate Media in my hometown Portland OR to and started hosting sessions creating music and helping young artists who love exploring their music production as well. Asides from creating from two home bases, I also love getting the chance to explore new places and experience how that inspires and integrates my music. It’s truly inspiring to journey and create music across the globe, from Cairo to Manila and to Maui. When you’re in love and feeling good and naturally keep going forward. I look forward to what 2025 will bring – I’m expecting to be the biggest year for song releases for Echo The Savage music. The team and I have a whole record produced and composed by myself and were planning to release one music video almost every month and togetherly into an album release. I am dedicated to this year’s expansion of my public music catalogs. The full-length album will provide a more focused curation of my sound building from not only hard rock, but also with pop, EDM, and R&B elements. A little reveal for the singles and features dropping this year explores some of the heavier metal music I do such as ‘4 horsemen’ as well as more modern top40 style hip hop R&B like ‘Swag aint dead’.

Alright, so let’s move onto what keeps you busy professionally?
I am here where I am professionally today from blessedly knowing at an early age what I actually wanted to be, which is a live performer and a singer and just stayed on that path and all of the adjacent paths towards that goal in order to become better at music and performing.

I became a music producer because it became necessary for me to create music in order to have music to sing over. I love the process so much that it evolved into a deep love for you know in audio engineering and music production. I went to school for that and graduated from Oregon Music Technology School started a recording studio and ran that for a very long time. I moved from a public practice to a private practice and now I’m working exclusively with artists of my choosing and developing a lot of really fulfilling music for me.

I wish I could say it was easy but it definitely wasn’t and it was just about having the stick-to-itiveness to know that I’m doing something that I want to do it’s really important to spend my time doing what makes me feel the best so much less about money and it’s really just about how I can spend a majority of my time doing what I want to do and eventually doing the things that I would like to do the most in the way that I’d like to do them which is performing live shows for thousands of people at a time so some of the how to become a champion that’s the most important part.

What sets me apart is that I work well as a producer and I work well as an artist. I know when to take the stage and when to allow others to realize their vision while facilitating that.

I can blend many techniques and skills in my music, sing, rap, scream… I also can play piano guitar, drums, bass, and produce many different kinds of music ranging from metal to rap to hip-hop, R&B, jazz, funk, blues, and modern EDM genres like drum and bass and dubstep house music. I’m literally all over the map – I’ve been in the same industry for over 20 years and there is not a lot of types of music that I haven’t done or I guess you could say I’ve done a lot of different types of music and I’ve experienced a lot of different types.

I think making music includes creating different experiences and different ideas for people to witness and absorb. I think that shapes the totality of the human condition as things move forward. My music connects to many people at an emotional level and can serve as an escape. It can serve as a way to cope with their circumstances or fears and give a way to relate to certain negative experiences that they’ve gone through and know that they’re not alone.

I think really powerful music can transcend some of those negative emotions and release them. Music has always been a powerhouse for my mental health. And there are people who have come back from severely negative mental health circumstances. I’ve found that music is the best coping mechanism that I have come across and I think that if my music can heal myself and it can heal others that can hear it. At the very least, you know, they are gonna have fun and have an external way to express themselves.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
We would probably go to the studio where we could write some cool music.

Then I would bring them to my house in mid-city, and I would cook them a meal. I have a couple of studios at my house so we might as well do this all there. I had you come over for I do this thing where I cook food and also produce music at the same time. We could film this whole thing. Within an hour and a half, we’d have a sick beat and we’d have something delicious to eat as well.

Then after that I’d take you outside and we would find some cool places to shoot content and perform some cool music related content and then edit that up in about an hour publish that then I’d take you out to eat somewhere pretty nice. We’ll have some nice beers. There’s a place in Burbank that I like that’s pretty awesome called Finney’s and we hang out there for a bit, have some good food, and then probably go to Prince Street Pizza and have some pizza. And then we’d finally end up at the Rainbow Bar (oh finally oh my god) where we would meet some good friends of mine and hopefully see some great Live music.

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
I would give a shout out to Uneek INT. He signed me to Sony music four years ago. He has mentored me along the way and has given me the training and the resources I needed to become great. We are still working together and they recently signed me to a new collaboration with Virgin Music.

Big shout out to him for giving me the in-depth understanding of music promotions and management, and moving forward with confidence.

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