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Audacy Pop
  • 6/25/2025
Julia checks in with sombr about his path to success in music, and more during our Audacy Check In.
Transcript
00:00hi nice to meet you nice to meet you talking to somber huge huge fan of your music so it's great
00:09to get to talk to you um i think you're just such an incredible and interesting artist and like
00:15learning what i have about you that you know you write your own music and just a little bit of you
00:20know how you kind of make almost a melting pot of genres i think is so interesting so i kind of
00:27want to go back and learn how you got interested in creating music like where was the start point for
00:33you um i'd say like my earliest memories are music i try to think back to you know my earliest
00:41memories without music and i and that's something that i i can't really find um it's just like since
00:48i was growing up there were always instruments around the house i was writing songs even no
00:54matter how bad they were and it was just always a part of me is your family musical yeah my dad
00:59it plays guitar and piano and he's a pretty good singer um and his dad um is a singer as well
01:08okay so it's a little bit like in your bones yeah it's in my bones um so undressed is the big huge
01:15song i'm obsessed with it um how was it creating that where did it start i created it in my home
01:21studio in los angeles um and yeah i started by making a beat and then i i kind of just wrote the
01:29song over it and and then kind of once the song was fully written and partially produced i brought
01:36it into soundstage studios with my collaborator tony berg and we finished up that production and
01:43and kind of realized we made something really special and put it out do you usually lead with
01:49production first or is it lyrics first ever it's it's like 90 leading with production okay who who
01:56like got you into music growing up like as a listener and as a fan i'd say like my earlier
02:03influences were like boni ver and like mac de marco um like when i was in like like my early years in
02:13high school um and and then i didn't really know and then i kind of as i started growing as a song
02:21writer um i'd say my my more prominent influencers are like jeff buckley and radiohead that's sick i can
02:29hear that was there a moment for you or like a certain song that you can remember that you it all
02:34kind of clicked where you're like okay i think i really found what i'm meant to be doing or i really
02:38found like this sound that i like for myself yeah i'd say it's a song caroline that that kind of got
02:44my feet off the ground i made it when i was in high school um and then i posted it online it was my
02:50first time posting my music and it was like an overnight virality situation and then from there i
02:56was able to make it my career and kind of develop my craft over the following few years and then
03:02undress and back to friends came and things have been crazy and we never dated is out this week
03:09can you tell me about that song yeah i'm really excited i think it's like the perfect follow-up
03:14from those two songs um and i think it's one of the best songs i've created today so i i hope people
03:20like it is this going to be a part of something bigger moving forward or are you just kind of
03:25releasing as you're coming up with things can't say much yet but yeah there's definitely some sort
03:29project on the horizon and that's all i'll say okay okay did i hear correctly that you also are
03:35a professional chef is that real yeah no it's real at the time you do all of these hobbies and like
03:40to the best extent no it's i i i'm a nocturnal creature i did three years of culinary school
03:47um so so yeah i'm pretty good at cooking okay so if somebody's coming over you got to cook like
03:53one dish to impress them what is the one thing you do i don't know it's hard um i'd say probably
03:58ratatouille ratatouille did you learn from the movie did i learn from sorry did you learn from
04:04the movie no i learned from culinary school but mad respect to the movie though um and last but not
04:12least i just want to know how you got your name is it kind of like a work of like your initials or
04:16how did you come up with that yeah i'd say the initials are part of it but it's like mostly just
04:21me being like i was just like a dumb kid and i was just like okay somber this is somber with no
04:27ease available um that that's who i am now and now i'm stuck with it for the rest of my life but
04:32i love it yeah no i like it too and it's so funny because you hear of so many artists now like post
04:37alone is one i think of for example who just like got his name from a generator and like nobody's ever
04:41mad at it it always just kind of works and i feel like somber really fits you and um yeah loving all
04:47the music that you've done so far and i can't wait to see what else is to come thank you so much
04:51yeah have a good rest of your day thank you