Revolutionizing Music Through Personal Storytelling

What if you combine musical mastery with a bold vision for the future? 

In our latest clip episode, Boy Bowser is living proof that it's possible. A multi-talented musician with expertise in wind and brass instruments, he shares an inspiring journey from creating beats in high school to becoming a beacon for trans artists in the industry. 

Growing up in a musical family with the profound influence of hip-hop, thanks to his dad and older brother, Boy Bowser reveals how music became a medium for storytelling and self-expression.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Really big background in like wind instruments, particularly like brass instruments. Trombone is my instrument of choice, yeah, but I can play tuba, I can play baritone. I can play euphonium. I can play trumpet. Not the euphonium, oh my God. It's not that much different from baritone, it's just bigger. Yeah, more tubing A lot more air. I got the lung capacity, yeah, I.

Speaker 2: 0:22

A lot more air. I got the lung capacity. Yeah, I was a little flute girl.

Speaker 1: 0:25

It was hard, though the little triangle and the tambourine. We love a percussion queen.

Speaker 2: 0:31

The biggest one was a drum set. Because every year my mom would get me a drum set because by the next year I would have ripped it and torn it apart. And then she lied and said Santa Claus bought me one again because I brought my other one. No shade to lying or whatever, santa Claus is real, but let me take it back Allegedly.

Speaker 2: 0:48

Let me take it back. No, shade, it was Santa, yeah, but you know, I always loved making beats, like in high school I was the beat girl and like they would freestyle to my beats or whatever. Oh baby, I can make beats and it's just like and I think my brother got into, I think my brother had like a trumpet and then my youngest sister, I think, played an instrument or whatever. But yeah, music is so fruitful for the soul and it just tells so much. It tells the stories of our experience and I love that you are using your platform and that you're using your gifts to be able to do that. You know, in 10 years, where would you like to see yourself?

Speaker 3: 1:34

Rich.

Speaker 1: 1:37

Not necessarily rich, but definitely no, we're manifesting rich.

Speaker 3: 1:40

okay, listen I learned that lesson as a young trans man, to kind of put myself in this position, where I didn't feel like finances were important. But rich is definitely something, a goal, because money does create, like this cushion for you.

Speaker 1: 1:52

Yeah, a cushion to be able to comfortably do the things you want to do, exactly. Yeah, that's where I want to be millions of dollars. I. I want to be at the point where um, well, one. I would love to establish myself as a, as one of the faces you think of when you think of, like, trans artists. I really want to like push for that visibility, because I know that that was something that was really, really important to me oh, is this you okay?

Speaker 1: 2:20

oh yeah, that is me yeah and so, like I and I grew up, listening to hip-hop has always, like, taken a big part of my life as well, like I grew up listening to it through all of my childhood because of my dad and because of my older brother. So it's a genre that's always been a big part of my life and something that I wanted to when I started making music. Like something that I wanted to when I started making music, like something I really wanted to express um, but at the same time, you know, like I, my forefront with all the music that I make is that I want to be visible for people so that the next generation of trans artists can push the envelope even further than I could.

Speaker 1: 3:01

that's right's right, and you know but while I'm here, I'm going to try to push it as much as I can by being fun and sexy and silly, because I feel, like you know, a lot of my music has comedic elements to it. Yeah, and like I, don't know.

Speaker 3: 3:16

Yes, ma'am, when you're like, when you talk about your dick, that was a double wet, right Right, that was a double wet, right right I lost my shit the first time.

Speaker 3: 3:27

I heard that because, like, the truth and the matter is is like there's this toxic idea of how to be masculine or performing in that space or whatever that is. But you're breaking those barriers but kind of just stepping in and being like, yeah, I'm a trans man and still. And the other thing that I also found was amazing was the quality of the music video that you made it and it was also a T4T love story. I don't know if you know that Blossom.

Speaker 2: 3:52

Oh, we love T4T man your music video.

Speaker 3: 3:55

How did that concept even come into fruition and what was the inspiration on that? And again, I love that you used a lot of community in that video.

Speaker 1: 4:02

Yeah, the entirety of the team who helped make that music video come to life. All queer people. Like everybody was queer A lot of trans people present in the room as well.

Speaker 3: 4:14

That was sexy, Like you were getting like whipped and chained. I was like what?

Speaker 2: 4:18

Ooh, I have to go check it out.

Speaker 1: 4:20

Yes, I'm like please go check out my music video. We put a lot of heart and soul into that thing. That music video was actually born from. If you guys are, are you guys familiar with the Applex? Yes, so that was born off of me responding to an ad that my director made. That was like hey, I'm looking for queer artists to like maybe collaborate with on a potential music video. I want to build my portfolio and like if you send me your music, you know like I'll reach out to you.

Speaker 1: 4:49

So I was like at this point I was still pretty early in my career Like yes, ma'am had just come out. So I was like I don't know if you know, I don't know if my music is good enough to be able to pitch my music to a director for a music video. But I was kind of like you know what Shot in the dark? Like you might as well, like what, do you have to lose this person just being like no. So I was kind of like let's do it. So I sent over like a.

Speaker 1: 5:14

Really I spent like an hour trying to write this email of being like hello, my name is Boy Bowser, I'm a trans artist and I'd love to work with you. Here's some of my work. Um, uh, I'd love to make a music video for this specific song and like my whole message is about, you know, trying to uplift like trans people and like as like a person of color you know, like trying to write from my own experiences and that type of thing. Um, talk about it and like like the next day they responded and they were like dude, I checked out your music and I fucking love it.

Speaker 1: 5:47

Let's make a music video, yeah, and from there we just kind of started brainstorming. But, um, I have to give all the credit for like a lot of the scenes and like the writing just to my director tree. Uh, they're amazing to work with and they were just so stellar throughout all of it and they kind of came up with the concept and a lot of the designs and I helped with a lot of the set design, but everything about the ankles and these different set designs and everything that was all just their creation. So I really have to give all of them the credit on that. I was just the dude who made the song and provided the face.

Speaker 3: 6:27

Yeah, no, I mean, but you looked good in the music video, to be honest and to see a trans man as the focus of a video in that way and to see as many folks working around you in tandem as you as kind of the front show in that space. That was so inspiring to see. And once I saw that I was like I got to get you into kind of the front show in that space. That was so inspiring to see. And once I saw that I was like I got to get you into some of the things that I'm getting into. And that's why I reached out to you about Long Beach Pride, because I really wanted folks to find out more about your music.