- [Ashley] Yeah for me too.
- [BM] Did your curiosity help in any way to graduate so fast?
I heard you graduated in three years from college.
- [JUNNY] Oh yeah. No but…
- [BM] Was it your curiosity?
I wonder what’s after this? I need to study!
- [JUNNY] No no no… ‘Cause I took like…
The easy… Not the easy route but…
- [Peniel] Like you cheated? - [JUNNY] I decided on music...
- [Peniel] I’m just kidding. - [JUNNY] Really early.
- [BM] Oh, yeah? - [JUNNY] Yeah.
- [BM] How old were you when you started?
You were in high school?
- [JUNNY] So this is what happened.
I graduated high school...
And then… I didn’t know what to do.
But then I love music. I love singing.
I’m like you know what…
And since my brothers are all doing their own thing...
like what they like.
I’m just going to go with music and see what I can do.
And then I wanted to become a vocal trainer.
I love singing right? And then…
The first year I go in they’re telling me to learn…
German. Italian.
- [Ashley] Oh in school? - [JUNNY] In school.
- [Peniel] Did you go to school for music?
- [JUNNY] Yeah so it was a college…
In that college there’s a program for music, right?
- [Peniel] Oh okay okay.
- [JUNNY] So all those kids are all singing like…
Yeah yeah yeah.
- [BM] Opera style?
- [JUNNY] Yeah. And like training how to like sing with their stomach.
So it’s like, this isn't what I thought…
And then…
Well obviously, I had a little bit in mind of what it be like…
But then like the language…
You got to learn like new languages and all this.
- [Peniel] Ah right.
It's probably like required right?
- [JUNNY] It’s required… - [Peniel] To graduate.
- [JUNNY] And there's like a system like I'm not really…
I'm not too sure like what it is.
But then there's like a system of like levels as well.
And you have to have a certain level to go to this place…
For like post…
For like master’s or something like that.
- [BM] Ahh there’s levels to it.
- [JUNNY] Yeah. There’s levels to it.
As in piano too.
There’s like levels in piano, right?
- [BM] Certain criteria you have to follow. Okay.
- [JUNNY] And then I realized,
“Oh man. I don’t think I can do this.”
It's not what I want.
What I wanted to do is just sing, right?
- [BM] How’d you graduate in three years then?
- [JUNNY] No no no. This is what happened.
- [BM] Okay okay.
- [JUNNY] Can I ramble on about my life like this?
- [Ashley] Yeah it’s fine. - [BM] Yeah. Hell yeah.
- [Peniel] That’s the point of a podcast. - [Ashley] It’s interesting.
- [JUNNY] Yeah so…
At the point on like the verge of giving up basically…
There was a program that teaches you all these different types of…
Like recording… Like MIDI…
- [Peniel] Oh like producing pretty much?
- [JUNNY] How songs are made. Basically.
- [Peniel] Okay. Okay.
- [JUNNY] There's a program that was a three-year program…
And then after three years you take another year overseas.
So I’m like, “Okay. That sounds cool. I want to learn.”
And then as soon as I took that like everything just opened up.
So like the songs that I've been listening to I understand now.
How it's made me.
‘Cause you’re curious right?
Like you get them it’s like…
You get a mic. You record.
That's like the simplest thing you could think of but then…
Get into the details how they mix.
Like how songs are made… And all this and like…
It just opened up everything.
I'm like, “You know what I can do this.”
I'm going to try this and then I just took like…
I was a server for a long *** time.
- [BM] Like at a restaurant? - [Ashley] What’s a server?
- [Ashley] Oh oh oh.
- [BM] That’s how you were making your funds?
- [JUNNY] From low ends to high ends…
But in Canada, the tip is really good.
- [BM] Do they say sorry when they give you the tip too?
- [BM] “Sorry.” - [Ashley] “Sorry.”
- [Peniel] “Excuse me…”
- [JUNNY] I mean yeah like…
The tip was really good so…
I made money off that and I started buying my own equipment.
Just left and right.
Just buying my own equipment.
Getting a computer and then started making music and I put it…
Started putting up on SoundCloud.
- [BM] Ah you’re a SoundCloud artist.
- [JUNNY] Yeah. So SoundCloud was big right?
And as soon as I put it up on Soundcloud…
I realized, “Oh this is... This is... like... it."
I want to do this for like life now.”
- [BM] Yeah. When you were seeing the response and what not.
- [JUNNY] Yeah. So and then that's when I decided—
Well there’s a little bit of story between that but...
That’s when I decided I wanted to go to Korea.
- [BM] Nicee. - [Peniel] Oh nice.
- [Peniel] Where did you go for your one year overseas?
- [JUNNY] No but I didn’t go to the overseas…
- [Peniel] Oh you didn't? - [JUNNY] So I had a choice.
After you graduate for three years…
You get to choose.
And then... it was like in West London.
- [BM] Oh wow. - [Ashley] Ohh.
- [JUNNY] But then I asked myself.
Do I want to go to West London and do a year and you know…
That's a lot of money too. Right?
- [Peniel] Right.
- [JUNNY] But then... should I do that
or should I just keep pursuing this thing that I have with SoundCloud and like…
Now I'm putting stuff on Spotify.
Should I just do this and then you know…
I thought about it for a while and I realized,
“You know what I'm not going to go.”
I'm just going to do this and then…
Yeah. I went with it.