Idris James

I am Idris James, a YLabber who started his One Stone journey last year in 2019. I had come to One Stone with a background in orchestral performance, and I had known that I wanted to take my hobby of music in a new direction at One Stone. The first day of school I knew I was ready start exploring music, but what I didn’t know was that I would be stepping into a new world, my passion. The songs I write represent my thoughts and emotions, and are mostly written in the moment. I find that music has been a great outlet for me to express myself, to speak my mind. For the last year I've been working on songwriting and music production, spending a majority of my time learning each step of the process, finding confidence and happiness through music. I have written a lot this year but the biggest things to come out of this process were these four songs, Friday, Postcard, Goodbye and Room for me. I think these four tracks are a great representation of my development as an artist, a producer and as a person. They not only show a change in style and show my improvement as a producer, but they also show my increased confidence and vulnerability. My songs have gotten more personal as time has gone on and I own it all to the confidence music has given me. I want people to listen to what I make and find joy in it, relate to it, sing to it, find inspiration from it and to create good from that inspiration. I want people to draw creative confidence from me like I do from so many of my peers at One Stone. I want to use this skill that I have to bring people joy, as well as help them create art of their own.