Of course anyone can have a passion for listening to music. Whether it’s listening to it at a party or hanging out, while doing errands, or even just checking out your new artists album. But not every artist puts in 100% work during endless nights of work like one artist, who you might not have known. That new artist that works to bring more love back into the world is now a 20 year old student at Mercy University named Madison Rivera.
“Hard work pays off” is what she lives by and said that it can apply to anything, even to studio music writing and editing. “Even though it may sound like an easier job, the only thing that’s easy about it is loving to work on it if it’s your passion and luckily, it’s mine.”
She continues to describe how pursuing this is no easy task, but states “Whenever I’m at the studio for long hours and I may not have gotten the track down the way I wanted, I came out learning something someone else and I didn’t know.”
She focuses on putting in work to her editing, flows, and rhythm skills. Madison said that “I loved music my entire life, but I was 9 when things really began to change for me.” It was at this age that she began to write her feelings down and to her made her “feel like a bird finally learning how to fly”.
She would go as far as to describe the world’s feeling is a record player with no tune.
When asked with what she does when things get difficult for her, she always reminds herself why she is continuing to pursue music and has a strong belief to “give the world back what it’s losing from the hate and problems building up throughout society.”
Although admitting that she has always had a passion with actually starting in lyric writing first, she said that her father bought her a desktop and computer for fun and gave her the idea in pursuing music as a whole.
Not just the writing, but creating her own tunes and rhythm in getting through to a listeners heart and energy.
For that reason, her inspiration for her passion in music is directly derived from her father, but she continues on making music for a living for her father, herself, and her family.
In creating her own tunes and song, she will always get assistance from other students and her own professor, but she even goes home on the weekends to get second opinions from her brother who Madison would say “has an identical music taste to me since we love many of the same artists!”
She pays attention closely adjusting speed, sound, remix beats, as well as lyrics, etc. with her close friend Jotti, an 18 year old who also pursues studio work as well here at Mercy University.
Madison will always be open to suggestions working at Mercy in the Studio in Victory Hall, but her favorite area is studio B, right inside the office with the rest of Mercy’s studios’ ambitious and easy to talk to staff!
One piece of advice that she would leave for not just any upcoming artists, but anyone taking on their major is to “never stop learning and talk to as many people as possible. You will always learn something new and helpful from every single person you meet: students and professors alike.”
Madison will continue to create beats and songs anew, sharing tunes for all to hear not just at Mercy, but around the world to make the world take back its rhythm.
